This tutorial is about the ActionScript tween method. You will use this method when you need more control over the tween than you have with the Timeline method.

A few of my readers wanted to know how to create the popular Flash animation which shows an envelope opening. In this tutorial, we will create that animation and program it to begin when the stamp on the envelope is clicked.

Remember that, as part of the design details, we have those two ladybugs. It’s time to make them move with Flash Motion Tweens.

In this tutorial, we will create two types of animation. One is a simple frame-based animation and the other uses the Transform Timeline Effect to morph text.

In this tutorial, we will build the design that we planned out in the previous tutorial onto the layers of the Flash Timeline. Then, we will work on the first of the animations for the advertising blinkie.

The owner of J3 Designs asked me to create an advertising blinkie for her digital scrapbooking website. She wanted to maintain the classic elegance of the company brand and gave me a set of graphics that she had already used for her logo. Where do we start?

I have several requests from readers for text effects. One easy way to create text effects is the built-in Flash Timeline Effects. Although this article is about text, these effects can be applied to other things on the stage such as shapes, graphics, grouped objects, bitmaps and more.

Flash animators are moving toward the use of more bitmap graphics in their projects. So how does the Flash designer decide what type of images to use in a project?

We have been discussing the options for including ActionScript in a Flash project. The ActionScript code that we used in these tutorials drew a red circle on the stage. Let´s take a look at the code in more detail and learn how to create a class in ActionScript 3.

We will be using the Flash Linkage – Export for ActionScript feature to associate external ActionScript code with a symbol stored in the Library. The beauty of this method is that we can add the symbol to the stage on any frame of the Timeline and as many times as needed.