This tutorial will teach you about Timeline Motion Tween effect.

There are two types of tweened animation using timeline can create in Flash.

Motion Tween&
Shape Tween

The basics of Flash is Creation of Motion/Shape tween using timeline.

You can make an effect similar to morphing, making one shape appear to change into another shape over time. Flash can also tween the location, size, and color of shapes.

Please note:

1. You need Flash Player 7.0 installed to view and
2. Flash MX 2004 should be installed to download the .fla file.

Steps to follow:

• Open a new file (Ctrl+N).
  Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document . Press OK.
• Press (Ctrl+Alt+T) to open the timeline window, if its not opened.
• Now you can see the "Layer1" in your timeline Window.

 



 

• Select the first frame. And go to working area and draw any object. To start off with, you can draw a line or circle.This will be the initial object.
  
• Select frame 20 and press F8 to insert a new keyframe.
• Still keeping playhead on frame 20, delete the object present in your working area. Then draw a different object, can be a long line or a square.
  
• Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Shape from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will belike the one below.

 

 

• Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween.