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Flash Tutorial - Animated Masks

Free Flash Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to make a simple animated Mask in Flash. A Mask is an object which hides something. In Flash Masks are used with layers and they provide a simple way to selectively reveal portions of the Layer or Layers below. Masking requires making one Layer a Mask Layer and the Layers below it become only partly visible or masked.

In the example below the top Layer has a circle which has been animated. This is the Masked Layer and you can see through this circle to the Layer below:

My Example: Download the Flash file  Beg 006a

Flash Movie with an Animated Mask.

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Cross Ref: There is another tutorial explaining how to create a Mask which is attached to the movement of the Mouse. See: Masks Attached to the Mouse