May 6, 2009
Motion Tweens in Flash CS4
I’ve been lucky enough to work with Flash CS4 and while it does come with it’s share of bugs I wouldn’t go back to Flash CS3. One of the improvements that I love is the new tweening engine. If anything it makes animating in Flash 10x more enjoyable. The update borrows a lot of features from After Effects and brings with it a whole new way of thinking when you animate in the IDE. So, to help myself and other people get used to the new engine I’m listing a little link roundup that not only talks about the new changes but also shows some examples of what you can do.
Animation Learning Guide for Flash CS4
Motion Migration Guide for Flash CS4
The new way of tweening of Flash CS4
Lists of keyboard modifiers in the Flash CS4 motion model
I’ve also included a zip file of a ton of examples. I didn’t make these but I did find it at adobe’s site.
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/motion-is-awesomer.zip
Finally, here are a few other miscillaneous links from a feature tour of CS4 and some basics of animatin. Nothing big but it’s always good to brush up on the basics even if it’s for a reminder lesson.
Lee Brimlow’s Tour of Flash CS4