Re: FLASH: Animation question

[Dorian Nisinson]

Gemberling, Bruce wrote:

> 

> I'm attempting to create an animation with flash where a line starts out

> being approximately .5" long grows to a length of 5". The problem I have

> is that the line is not straight so scaling and tweening will not work.


	If you have Freehand 8 or Illustrator you could do this as a blend and

set the number of steps to the number of frames you want minus 2 for the

start and end states of the blend. If you do this in freehand 8 you can

then do a Xtras/Animate release to layers and then export as a swf file.

This would be the way I would do it.


> I've achieved the effect by drawing segments of the line in each frame

> as the line grows but this is a painful tedious approach to the problem.

> Does anyone else have any ideas how this could be achieved in a much

> more time efficient manner. I've also noted that this manner of drawing

> the line appears to cause my movie to run sluggishly.


	Many frame by frame animations can be helped by opimizing the shapes

one at a time. Freehand 8 with the updater does a much better job of

putting optimized art than it used to, so doing it in Freehand might

help you there also.

> 

> Thanks in advance!

> 

> Bruce A. Gemberling

> Corporate Graphics Designer

> K*TEC Electronics

> 281.243.5176

> 

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