- Getting started
- About animation
- Understanding the project file
- Animating position
- Changing the pacing and timing
- Animating transparency
- Animating filters
- Animating transformations
- Editing multiple frames
- Changing the path of the motion
- Swapping tween targets
- Creating nested animations
- Easing
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Animating 3D motion
- Exporting your final movie
- Review questions
- Review answers
Understanding the project file
The 03Start.fla file contains a few of the animated elements already or partially completed. Each of the six layers—man, woman, Middle_car, Right_car, footer, and ground—contains an animation. The man and woman layers are in a folder called actors, and the Middle_car and Right_car layers are in a folder called cars.
You’ll be adding more layers to create an animated cityscape, refining the animation of one of the actors and adding a third car and a 3D title. All the necessary graphic elements have been imported into the library. The Stage is set at a standard HD size, 1280 pixels by 720 pixels, and the Stage color is black. You might need to choose a different view option to see the entire Stage.