flash animation

After so much trouble panicking over flash I managed to rope in some help from a 3rd year graphics student- Ben Strowman, after much debate and chat over how the animation would look and whether it would be interactive or not we decided to get going.

Origionally I was going to have my animation interactive- but then Ben told me that it would be quite "samey" as once the user got to the page they would just have to go back to the start and click another, go back to the start etcetera. Then he showed me some work by Gustav Johansson, who has done a few animations, after watching them we came up with the idea of the animation promoting the app, so it will go through each page and explaining how the app works and what the features are! This is another way of promoting the launch also as I am thinking of putting the launch date at the end...!? Click the link and scroll down to these...

OKAY SO....

To start off we had to save each page as a separate file and put them into illustrator- as the way i wanted the animation to be it would need to be separated images and also you cannot put an indesign image into flash.

Firstly we have to import the object from illustrator to the flash library, drag the object from the library onto the stage in key frame 1- (key frame one is on the time line - so imagine in photoshop the difference layers- key frames are like this!!)

Drag into key frame 1 and make sure the object is off the stage- right click and convert to symbol and choose "movie clip" and then you inset the key frame further along in the timeline and then you drag the object onto the stage, right click between the key frames and click create motion tween.

Then we have repeated this in different ways on each image and text!