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1 Introduction

Frame-by-frame animation means to display one image after each other and that creates the illusion of a movie.

Learning goals: Learn basic Flash 9 (CS3) frame-by-frame animation, one kind of Flash animation.; Save a frame-by-frame animation as reusable movie clip.; Learn about symbol edit mode.; Learn about some object transformation features

Prerequisites: Flash CS3 desktop tutorial; Flash layers tutorial; Flash drawing tutorial (for starters some of it, at some point you'll have to dig into it a bit); Flash animation overview
Moving on: If you want to do serious frame-by-frame animation, you probably better drawing skills. In particular, you should read the Flash object transform tutorial and the Flash arranging objects tutorial since you'll have to change graphics from one frame to the next one.; The Flash article has a list of other tutorials. You probably should continue with the Flash classic motion tweening tutorial or Flash CS4 motion tweening tutorial. It will teach how to make fly things. You also can read the Flash shape tweening tutorial which tells how to do morphing animation.
Quality: This text should technical people get going and may not be good enough for self-learning beginners. It can be used as handout in a 'hands-on' class. That is what Daniel K. Schneider made it for...
Level: It aims at beginners. More advanced features and tricks are not explained here.
Materials (*.fla files you can play with): http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/flash/ex/frame-by-frame-intro/
Newer version: Flash frame-by-frame animation tutorial (CS6)

The executive summary

Purpose: Frame-by-frame animation gives you very detailed control over the movie (since it's the technology used to make animation pictures until recently before different 2D and 3D computer animation techniques came into the existence). Disadvantage is that frame-by-frame drawing is very time consuming work. Therefore, most often, designers use a combination of frame-by-frame animation and interpolation techniques (called tweening in Flash lingo). Often, frame-by-frame animation is used to animate single objects that in turn can be used as part of larger Flash animations. A typical example are buttons that highlight when you move the mouse over them or when you click on them.

Executive summary of the procedure:

Insert drawings in various keyframes
Modify these drawings a little bit over time

2 The timeline and keyframes

The principle of frame-by-frame animations made with drawings is that you draw various versions of the same objects in different frames. These are then displayed one after each other in rapid order (most often between 10-25 frames / second).

A frame is a drawing that is displayed at a given time. In the timeline, each stop in each layer of the timeline is a frame and they are numbered from 1 to whatever length your animation has. Let's start by introducing the meaning of a few symbols in the timeline. We later will come back to these.

If you feel that display of timeline elements is too tiny, you can fix this with the time line options (little pull-down menu in the upper right). This menu also allows displaying a preview of the animation (but that takes up space of course).

Time line options pulldown menu

When you start drawing with Flash, everything is drawn by default into a first frame in layer 1.

The default keyframe is frame # 1

E.g. if you insert a letter, for example, you will see something like in the screen capture just above.

The first frame in the timeline will have a dot inside. So if you see a frame with '.', it means that there is some content inside.
The playhead showing the current frame (the red rectangle) sits on top of frame one.

There are other symbols that can appear in the timeline and we will introduce them later as we need these.

We now will introduce three frame-by-frame animation examples. We will do this in the main time line of the *.fla file. Alternatively, you also can first create so-called movie clip symbols and then edit these objects as described in the end of this article.

3 A simple letter after letter animation

Have a look at the this simple animation first.

The *.fla, *.swf and *.html files flash-cs3-frame-by-frame-hello.* can be found at http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/flash/ex/frame-by-frame-intro/

We will produce an animation that will display the word 'HELLO', one letter after each other. The principle is quite simple: We will insert new letters in new keyframes. One could do this by inserting 'H' into keyframe 1, then add 'E' to keyframe 2 etc. We will do something slightly different here, i.e. we insert a keyframe every 5 frames.

Step 1

We insert the letter 'H' in frame 1 (alternatively you may start in frame 5, i.e. the user won't see the 'H' when the frame loads.Anyhow, later you always can add extra empty frames.

Steps 2 to 5

Now we repeat this procedure by adding new letters in new frames. So first we will transform frame 5 into a new keyframe. It is important to understand that there are two kinds of new keyframes:

Blank ones that will clear the stage, i.e. the objects will be gone. That's not what we want here.
Keyframes that carry 'forward' contents of the keyframe before. We will use this one.

The procedure is the following (see the picture below)

Right-click in a frame, then select Insert Keyframe (not insert blank keyframe). Alternatively hit F6, i.e.use the [Flash CS3 keyboard shortcuts|shortcut]].

Editing keyframe #5

Repeat this, until you incrementally spelled out 'HELLO'.

Step 6

Test if it works:

Firstly you simply can move back and forth the playhead (red rectangle that sits on the top of the timeline)
Then you can test the movie though the menu Control->Test Movie or hit CTRL-Return. This will open a up a new window where you can see more or less what an end-user would see.

Step 7

Now we want to tune a few things:

(1) You may not be happy that the movie starts with lette

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