Flash Tutorials

Flash Actionscript Method for Game Launch

This video demonstrates how to use the Switch / Case function, combined with Random and LoadMovieNum to launch different games from one flash movie.

Flash Preloader Component Tutorial

This video demonstrates how to put together a preloader for your games or animations in about 5 minutes.

Flash Movie Within Movie Technique Tutorial

This Flash tutorial shows you how to create a movie within a movie which is a valuable technique for creating more complex animations; in this example, we make a clock with a hand that spins around while the clock moves through space.

Flash Animation Tutorial

This Flash tutorial shows you how create a believable animation using Flash. We get into symbols, free transforms, pivot adjustments, keyframing, onionskinning, and some of the physics of falling objects, as we have a ball knock a bottle off a table, and have the bottle bounce on the floor.

Flash - How to Collapse Layers / Timeline

This Flash tutorial shows you how manipulate an existing animation that is comprised of multiple layers and keyframes, so that it is collapsed into one keyframe on one single layer. This is useful if you want to animate the animation, ie, move it around as a whole, or if you want to transform it by scaling or rotating.

Flash - How to create a Walk Cycle

This Flash tutorial shows you how to create a walk-cycle with a reference to the work of Muybridge, a photographer in the late 1800's who documented how people and animals move with timed photos. We have put together a Flash file with these public-domain images setup as templates as well as pre-set layers to make this easy for you. Get the template here.

Flash - Bouncing Ball Tutorial

This Flash tutorial shows you how to create a bouncing ball that uses Ease-in, Ease-out, and Squash & Stretch.

Flash - Bouncing Text Tutorial

This Flash tutorial shows you how to create a bouncing text that comes to a stop.

Flash - Tweened Text Tutorial

This Flash tutorial shows you how to create a tweened text that is animated in position, scale, and opacity.