Re: FLASH: Writing Pen

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 10:59 AM 3/1/00 , you wrote:


>hi all,

>i m a beginner to flash. can anybody tell me how that writing pen in 

>samples has been constructed,


I'm assuming you're looking at the .fla example, so you can see what's on 

the timeline. Probably they started by writing out the whole writing 

sample, and then drew the pen and motion tweened it (following a motion 

guide) so it followed the writing, only in reverse. Then they added a 

keyframe to the writing in frame 2 and erased a bit of the writing. Then a 

keyframe in frame  and erased some more. And so on. When done, they 

reversed the sequence of keyframes as well as the motion of the pen.


Marc Hoffman


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