There are many Flash animations that look stiff and almost appear to have a cut-out effect to their movement. If you are one that would like to add more life to your animations, then this tutorial is for you. Stretch and Squash is a principle used in animation that dates back to Disney's early animated films.The concept is pretty simple. When an object is moving at high speeds in the animation, then you stretch the object as if it is being pulled and stretched out on both ends. When the object makes impact with another object (eg. wall, ground or character), then you squash the object. The simplest way to demonstrate this is with a bouncing ball.

A tutorial for beginners, showing you how to animate with a technique called tweening.

Timeline effects are a new feature of Flash MX 2004. They are designed to enable you to animate quickly without all the hassle of Keyframes and Tweening. It is easy and fast to create animation with Timeline Effects. This makes animation possible for the beginner and it makes animating much, much easier and faster for the pros. So the advantage of animating with Timeline effects is that it is easy, quick and you don't need a lot of technical knowledge. Many beginners find Keyframes, Tweening and Nesting confusing. Timeline Effects by-pass all of this opening up the world of Flash animation to the beginner. The disadvantage of Timeline Effects is that you do not have the same level of control that you would if you were animating through the use of techniques such as tweening. Having said that Timeline Effects are a very powerfully tool and you can have a lot of fun working with them.

I wish i could say there was an easy trick or a shortcut that could help you through this...but there really isnt any fast way. It takes quite a bit of time, but can be quite rewarding if done correctly. I have had quite a few requests for a tutorial on this and here it is: Good luck. There are several steps to go through. Each is equally important to the overall look of the finished product.

Motion tweening using a path can be very useful when we want a movie clip to follow a curvy path on the screen.

It is very important to understand the concept of motion tweening in Flash. Motion tweening is used to automatically alter the properties of a symbol (a movie clip, a button or a graphic) over a certain length of time. Motion tweening can be use to change the _x and and _y property of an element on the stage, the alpha transparency, the size of the symbol, the tint ...etc let's start with a basic tutorial that will help us to understand the very basic of motion tweening.

Flash 5 tutorial demonstrating how to create 'wipes' which are an essential part of movie and scene transitions.

Create and personalize your own Christmas Card with flash.

Have you ever finished animating something only to decide that you need to change it's placement on the stage or size on the screen? You can move all of the frames at the same time, you just need to use the "Edit Multiple Frames" feature.

This technique eliminates the use of any 3D programs as well as complicated frame-by -frame animation of simple 3D objects. It also improves the file size.