One of the most commonly seen types of ad on the Internet is in the form of Flash animation. Flash animation is even being used now to create full-fledged cartoon animation. You might decide that you want to create flash animations like this for your own use. But usually, you will have to purchase an expensive program, and then spend a great deal of time trying to understand its complex interface. But it is possible to create Flash animations for free. There are several online sites that allow you to do this, such as Flashberry and Animation Online. We will look at aniBooms Shapeshifter to create Flash animation. The following steps will show you do this.
Instructions
1. Go to aniBoom (see Resources). Start the ShapeShifter online Flash editor. Make the color whatever you want. In this case, we will use a red.
2. Go to the upper left of the screen and click on one of the Create Shape icons. In this case will will use the circle.
3. Use the Move tool to drag the circle to the upper left corner. Now go to the bottom, below the timeline slider, and click Add Frame 6 or 7 times. Drag the slider back to the beginning frame.
4. Go to the right, and click on the Orion Skin icon. Now use the slider in the timeline to get to the next frame, and use the Move tool to move the circle in that frame a small amount. Thanks to the Onion Skinning, you will be able to see its positioning relative to the previous frame.
5. Continue doing this with the following frames. Try to move each frame about the same relative distance. You might want to change the shape of some of the circles so it looks like the circle is distorting when it bounces off the walls. Now either go to Save to save your animation as Flash, or go to Export, and export it as an animated GIF.
