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Open your e-book and read pages 172-173, 183-185 and 218-219 to understand animation basics and timelines. You need to create 4 different shape tweens using Flash. Your content is up to you. Your goal is to have a scene with smooth tweens. Create challenging shapes.

Criteria

Create a new layer for each of the 4 or more shape tweens.
Include a gradient tweening on at least one shape.
Use shape hinting on one or more of your shape tweens (p. 219).
Each of your tweens should be different speeds and lengths in duration.
More points will be awarded for believable scenes vs abstract ones.

Here's a simple explanation of shape tweening.

Click here to watch Part 3, "Shape Tweens" video tutorial to understand completely before proceeding.


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The above example is not controlled. Strive for smooth, realistic movements in your tweens.

Turn in your shape tweens in as .fla and .swf file format to the "Z:Shapetweening" folder.