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Description A Flash Animation Tutorial for people who have never used Macromedia Flash before and totally drown in the technicalities
of all those tutorials online.

I hope it will be useful... I'm often a bit chaotic when it comes to explaining things ^_^;

Good thing this tutorial has about 100 screenshots o_o

Send me a note if you don't get it...
Or see HORRIBLE mistakes in this tutorial.
Don't flame me on my spelling mistakes, I'm Dutch x_o

I love feedback on the usefulness of this XD

Edit:
click here: [link] if you want to download this tutorial as a .exe file,
so you can also use it offline
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Comments: 2494

hugMEETSkiss In reply to ??? [2010-11-23 18:07:12 +0000 UTC]

This is a really good tutorial
- we do flash animations in the school at the time -and i want to prepare something - because we'll get a mark before x-mas
do u know free flash makers? I always find just flash programs where u can just pan and zoom-not more
Hey and also another question for my schoolwork i want to make a person/Chibi who cuts fruits(it makes fruitsalat ) - can u give a good suggestion how i can do that - the knife should move up and down and cut at first a banana

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caterpillartomoko [2010-11-13 13:56:36 +0000 UTC]

Will it work for older versions of Flash though, say.. Macromedia Flash 4 ?

I noticed the selection tool is not there , only Rectangle and Oval .. Though I did get it that when you said Document, it meant Movie in old version.

I got stuck when I tried to draw the panda's head ^^ because there was not a Selection tool there , there was a Select All though haha..

But I still fave this because it is easy and friendly and the demonstrations are good.

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SanguineEpitaph In reply to ??? [2010-11-12 01:07:46 +0000 UTC]

I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely love you.

Thank you so much!
[link]
(My panda is quite terrible.)

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KuroKitteh [2010-11-07 09:32:33 +0000 UTC]

I love you for making this!!!
umm.. I do have a question though.... lets say i'm working on a comic flash, how do I save it as?

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cybergirl98 In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 12:48:22 +0000 UTC]

maan!! this is soo hard!! *i think i made a mistake when moving the keyframe*

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sugarblueberry In reply to ??? [2010-10-31 01:21:24 +0000 UTC]

I have to do some flash files and Iยดm not good at it so this helps Thank you

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intherealworldimyou [2010-10-29 22:37:19 +0000 UTC]

THIS WAS FRIKKIN AWSOME!!! thx al lot!! it rly has helped me, especially the little tricks

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Sneaky-Kat4-Life2 In reply to ??? [2010-10-17 04:59:17 +0000 UTC]

Man...all I can say i that you have saved my life. I now know hw to make a stinkin animation!!! :woship: U R A God.

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haunting-ghost In reply to ??? [2010-10-11 22:30:33 +0000 UTC]

wow this is really going to help. thanks soo much

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KawaiiSairen In reply to ??? [2010-10-08 17:52:45 +0000 UTC]

hi i made a game with flash but i can't seem to upload it
becase of that preview thing
i made a picthure for the preview that is 150 px x 150 px that didn't work so i tried 140 px, 100 px and 141 px but none of them worked can you help me?

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Hjernedoed In reply to ??? [2010-10-07 10:14:45 +0000 UTC]

This is my most trusted help, when it comes to making flash<3
It's simply, and easy to get. And i simply adore you, for making it.
Thnx for sharing your knowledge

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Shay123 In reply to ??? [2010-10-06 04:30:46 +0000 UTC]

LOVE. YOU.

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Astaiir In reply to ??? [2010-09-22 20:37:18 +0000 UTC]

It is amazing tutorial!
But, do you have or know any tutorial which explains the frames and this frametime? I mean those symbols on this bar? I mean, or I'm so stupid that I still odn't understand or I dunno.
I have the while illustrations to get moving, drawn in Photoshop, so I don't need any onion tool or such... I just have no idea how to make it move. TT_TT

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Microfiber In reply to ??? [2010-09-22 16:48:13 +0000 UTC]

If I'm unable to draw anything even if I trie... What can be wrong?

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RubyDNL In reply to ??? [2010-09-20 14:37:09 +0000 UTC]

fantastic tutorial! thanks a lot

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Karnoffel [2010-09-17 08:08:47 +0000 UTC]

omgomg this will probably help me a lot but im so amazing that i cant find out how to name the layers or where i can find them i have adobe flash cs3 btw

can anyone help me?

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Karnoffel In reply to Karnoffel [2010-09-17 09:45:38 +0000 UTC]

nvrm ! i found out hahah

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Elkaddalek [2010-09-07 22:22:47 +0000 UTC]

like this [link]

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Elkaddalek [2010-09-07 21:18:22 +0000 UTC]

do u know how to make an animated preloder?
what i want to do is make a clock like preloder with lights on each of the 10 increment marks ( 10, 20, 30, ex.) & will turn on & off when the hand pass by the number.
Is ther a way to make a movie clip animation & make it progress as the flash preloder loads?

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Lazaruzz In reply to ??? [2010-09-03 14:25:56 +0000 UTC]

This tutoria seemes to have some really important stuff in it, I hope it'll help me ..and others

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SugarNoms [2010-09-02 18:48:49 +0000 UTC]

this is amazing this is so helpfull for begginers noobies Like me I am so using this thank you so much!

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shayr9 [2010-08-31 19:13:01 +0000 UTC]

the program u used does it cost money?

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Concentrated-Awesome [2010-08-28 23:29:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! This helped a lot.

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LedaSwann135 [2010-08-27 20:45:24 +0000 UTC]

Is Macromedia free, or do you have to buy it?

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realgoodpizza In reply to LedaSwann135 [2010-09-18 09:27:39 +0000 UTC]

you can download a free trial but the full version needs cash...

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woofy-is-cute [2010-08-25 06:57:35 +0000 UTC]

i go on windows 7 on paint u cant do that plz reply

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realgoodpizza In reply to woofy-is-cute [2010-09-18 09:28:12 +0000 UTC]

you cant do this on paint...

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monkey678ruby In reply to ??? [2010-08-20 00:57:54 +0000 UTC]

Wait never mind I got it.

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monkey678ruby [2010-08-20 00:55:37 +0000 UTC]

Whenever I try to make a tween instead of seeing an arrow the box thing is just blue. And when I test it it doesn't work. :/ Please help. :3

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ninjafaeri1 [2010-08-14 18:14:12 +0000 UTC]

this helped alot!

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Blizzard133 [2010-08-11 02:29:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much

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Raeia [2010-08-10 19:17:43 +0000 UTC]

how do you adjust the length of a frame? I'm trying to make someone talking but the movie goes like 70 miles per hour

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Mistyke [2010-08-08 18:48:16 +0000 UTC]

Throughout this tutorial, I discovered i can't draw pandas. =3

This is an amazing tutorial, and helped me understand the program much more!

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LonelyxAlone [2010-08-04 20:45:48 +0000 UTC]

How do you loop it? >.<

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ArtSharky [2010-08-04 19:56:51 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial was SUPER awesome and amazing and totally helped me! I had to use flash in my cyber arts class and the problem was my TEACHER didn't even know how to use flash that well!

I ended up getting the highest mark he has EVER given out (it was our final project!) I got 198/200 :] Here is part of the project if you want to check it out [link]

Thanks so much for making this!

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MinervaGem In reply to ??? [2010-07-31 22:57:14 +0000 UTC]

this is a very useful tutorial! I love it!

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christine326 In reply to ??? [2010-07-30 06:15:59 +0000 UTC]

awesome tutorail
but i tried saving it as a exe file and i can't import it into window movie maker =\...
i tired using "export" but it made the animation bad ...
is there any way that i can save it into a video file that can be imported into WMM?

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rice-chex In reply to ??? [2010-07-28 18:51:27 +0000 UTC]

ohwow

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lil-girl123 In reply to ??? [2010-07-27 19:11:04 +0000 UTC]

This is great! It helped me a lot with getting stuff done with Flash. Thanks!

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Happy-every-day In reply to ??? [2010-07-23 12:18:20 +0000 UTC]

that tutorial is AWESOME!! Thank you very very much for it!! I learn a lot, and I didn't know anything about flash... it's funny and really useful

THANKS!!

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GothicaWay In reply to ??? [2010-07-22 10:11:36 +0000 UTC]

I can't find anywhere where I can download Flash for free. Do you have to pay for it, no matter what version you choose? *total newbie*

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Shadow-rulz In reply to ??? [2010-07-22 10:05:54 +0000 UTC]

you have saved me & my best friends lives!!!!!! THANK YOU SO SO SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!

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DTJames [2010-07-17 11:00:09 +0000 UTC]

This is a great tutorial! Definitely will need it one day

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AmbientSounds [2010-07-16 19:07:32 +0000 UTC]

way too cool, I can't imagine how much work you put into this!

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VanillaEevee [2010-07-11 08:14:05 +0000 UTC]

how did you make this tutorial?

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babbletrish [2010-06-30 03:11:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for this!

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Kazuhiro-Sama [2010-06-29 22:43:07 +0000 UTC]

Lots of helpful information! I can't wait to get started.

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chibichi28 In reply to ??? [2010-06-26 09:03:45 +0000 UTC]

yay!

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Nolife0123 [2010-06-23 19:38:32 +0000 UTC]

Wow This really helps thanks for making it

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WarpstarNova [2010-06-23 02:45:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the useful tutorial!

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