Learn About:

✓ Frame by Frame Animation ✓ Movie Clips ✓ Break Apart

• This tutorial is part of the Aesop's Fables Project.

✗ Open YOUR PROJECT in Flash …

… (Remember: all these tutorials are intended to be
applied to YOUR PROJECT) …

✗ … add a New Layer and name it.

✗ Lock all the layers you're not using.

✗ Draw a box and type something you can use in your project.

Add caption

✗ Scrolling through the fonts is easy with the Down Arrow key

✗ Set the color and size here too …

✗ Click on the text with the Selection Tool

✗ Hit (F8)

✗ Be sure to convert the image to a Movie Clip, not Button.

✗ Double-Click on the text with the Selection Tool.

✗ Notice you now have two icons on the timeline.

✗ That means you are working on a "Movie INSIDE the main Movie."

✗ Hit the keyboard shortcut Cmd (⌘) +B 3 times!

✗ It's broken apart fully when it's covered with dots …

✗ Hit

to make a new keyframe.

✗ Notice you now have two keyframes …

✗ Select the Eraser Tool

✗ Erase the end of the last letter.

✗ Now hit

to make another keyframe - and erase a little bit more …

✗ Hit

again and again, erasing more each time.

✗ Hit F6 twice between the letters to add an extra space.

✗ Click the layer to selects all the frames …

✗ Then, go to: Modify > Timeline > Reverse Frames or right-click the frames and hit Reverse Frames.

✗ Now your frames have been reversed.

✗ Go out about 15 frames PAST your last frame and hit