Timelines and Animation
Shape Tweening
Shape tweening gives an effect as if one shape is appearing from the other over a period of time. This gives us the illusion similar to morphing. We can also produce a change in the size, skew, rotation, color and position of an object as we can do with the motion tweening.
Create a Shape Tween Animation
Let us convert a simple square box of blue color into an oval of red color using shape tweening.
1. Open a new Flash Document
2. Draw a square at Frame1 .
3.Insert a keyframe at Frame25 as the ending frame for tweening.
4. With the frame25 selected delete the rectangle and draw an oval.
3.Insert a keyframe at Frame25 as the ending frame for tweening.
4. With the frame25 selected delete the rectangle and draw an oval.
5. Click over a frame between Frame1 and Frame25. Right click on it, choose Create Shape Tween.
6. Save and Test the Movie.