Frame by Frame Animation

You will need this font to complete this tutorial. Download, unzip, and install in your font directory.

1. Create a new movie by click file=> new.  Set the movie properties in the properties inspector to the following:

• Width = 260
• Height = 60 pixels
• Background color = white
• Frame rate = 12
• Ruler units = pixels

2. Select your type tool. Set the type tool properties to

• Static text
• font = Swifty
• Size = 60
• Color = black
• bold
• Character Spacing = -6(horizontal spacing)

3. Type in the letters asdfghjkl;' on your keyboard. This represents the row for the a key typed in all lower case in order from left to right.

4. Use your move tool to center this on your stage.

5. Select the text box with one click of the arrow took.

• Click Modify=> break apart.
• While still highlighted, click modify=> distribute to layers.
• While still selected, repeat by clicking modify=> break apart.

This will remove the issue of having to embed the font.  Each figure will move to its own layer and each layer will be called the letter of the font.

6. Use the move tool to grab the key frame starting with the s layer and move the contents to frame 2.

Move the contents of layer d to frame 3.

Move the contents of layer f to frame4  and so forth, until you have all the frames moved out one more frame from the last.

7. Click File=> save. Then click file=> publish.  Since each frame is a different drawing of the runner, you have completed a frame by frame animation.