Flash Moon Landing
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m in the process of learning Flash. It’s starting to get fun finally, as I get to the stage where I can actually create what I visualize beforehand.
The most important technique that I’ve learned and show in this demonstration is a nested animation. Even though they use the same Illustrator file, you can see that the frame by frame animation of the flag-planting astronaut is a bit jerky when compared to the moonwalker. This is because I only used 2 frames: a left foot step and right foot step.
The moonwalker however, consists of both a motion tween, and a nested animation of the individual leg and arm elements. The nested animation uses 8 keyframes in just over 2 seconds, so the movement is much smoother.
Some of the other things I’m finally starting to get a respectable handle on that you see in this movie are: masking and motion tweening (the alien jumping out of a crater), easing in and out (the LEM landing and taking off), frame by frame animation… and how to upload SWF files easily to a WordPress blog and put them just where I want them.
Flash | Jeff Bucchino | 
June 22, 2010 10:00 am
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