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Flash Tutorial - Tweening Shapes

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In this tutorial you will learn how to morph shapes in Flash. In Flash this is called Tweening shapes. This is a simple form of animation that changes one shape into another.

Example: Download the Flash file  Beg 001a

Example of shape tween

New: See Flash Demo Movie of how to build this Flash file

Step One: Creating a Shape

1. Open a new document.
2. Select an appropriate size and background colour by going to: Modify > Document
   The size of my movie is: 200 x 130
3. Type the word: one
   
   
   The layer I shape tweened starts with nothing but the word: one
   
   Note: Anything you shape tween must be on the same layer, so make sure that objects that are not going to be shape tweened are in a separate layer.
   
4. You may wish to change the size of your text with the free transformation tool .
5. Select your arrow tool .
6. With the word 'one' still selected go to: Modify > Break Apart
   This breaks the word up into individual letters.
7. Do the same thing again: Modify > Break Apart
   The second break apart creates shapes.
   
   
   When a shape is selected, it is dotty.
   
   If it is not dotty when selected, but has a rectangle around it, it is not a shape, which means you cannot shape tween it!