Flash Tweening Tricks

I have always been amazed with Flash animations. A simple drawing or sketch can turn into an animated one using just a few handy tricks. Tweening is one of the many tricks that you can do with Flash Animation. It comes from the words “in between,” wherein an object goes moving or changing from one key frame to another. Basically there are three types of Flash tweening tricks: Motion Tweening, Tint Tweening and Shape Tweening.

Motion tweening is done by moving a symbol or object from a starting key frame to the end key frame. Tint Tweening allows you to change the color of the object through animation. Last but not the least is shape tweening. In this trick, instead of only the color changing, the whole object changes.

These kinds of tricks are commonly used in animated webpages and even short Flash movies for the reason that it livens up an otherwise boring webpage. The good thing about using Flash tweening tricks is that you'’ll only need to draw the first and last key frames in an animation sequence, and then Flash will do its magic by filling in between to complete the whole Flash animation.