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Understanding shape tweens

Understanding shape tweens

In this chapter, we're going to be working with something called shape tweens. Tween is one of the keywords that you need to know when you're working in Flash. The word tween is short for "in between." In a tween, Flash creates frames of animation for you, so you don't have to create every single frame like you do in a frame-by-frame animation. This is useful because it takes less time and it's easier to edit than a frame-by-frame animation. So we'll start learning about tweens by talking about tweening shapes. Before you learn how to do shape tweens, I just want to show you the new types of frames that you'll see when you're working with shape tweens. If you look in the timeline in my file here, you'll see green backgrounds. Green backgrounds indicate shape tweens. A shape tween is basically a morph animation using a shape. Basically, you specify a start and an end keyframe and Flash creates the frames in between, hence the name tween. So if I scrub the playhead, you can see the…

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