Basic Techniques

These effects are the base for animating a text in Flash and by understanding these simple techniques, beginners can pass to more complex flash work. So if you are a beginner you will find these few examples very useful in order to start designing your own cool effects in the Flash environment. To understand these, we recommend you to take some simple flash lessons so you can accommodate with the main Flash panel.

• (1) Simple fade: this time we will use a mask technique
• (2) Moving the text: how to move a text on the horizontal and vertical
• (3) Moving and fading the text: how to combine the above effects
• (4) Blurring: how to make the text appear to blur when it moves
• (5) Handling letters: how to work with each character of the text

Please take in consideration our next advices:

• follow carefully these examples in order to understand the effects from the last Chapter
• please chose the Default Panel for the Flash environment (in the Flash Menu, please chose Window/Panel Sets)
• download the .fla source files and follow our templates carefully
• ignore the WebArticles layer in the main timeline