CREATE A SHAPE TWEEN

CREATE A SHAPE TWEEN

In shape tween, you can change from shape to another shape, shape to character, character to shape and character to character.

STEPS:

1. Start by drawing a shape of your choice in frame one of your animation.

2. If your shape has an outline, double click on the outline and remove it. This will make your shape tween look smoother.

3. Click on a frame later in the timeline. Select any frame you want. The more frames you leave, the longer the shape will take to tween or morph into our next shape.

4. Insert a keyframe at the frame you have selected by pressing F6.

5. At this new keyframe, delete the shape and add a new shape such as a circle or star. Remove any outlines as we did earlier.

6. Click on any Frame between 1 and any frame that you chose before and in the Properties panel at the bottom, change the Tween option from None to Shape.

7. Press Enter to see your first shape change into the next shape. You can add even more frames further along and make new shapes to make a series of shape tweens.

OR

· If you want to use words and change into shape or vice versa, first,you must Click Modify > Break Apart. this will only break the word into individual letters. Then, follow step 1 – 7.

There are three important rules:

1. The object to be tweened needs to be on it’s own layer.

2. The object must not be grouped or converted into a library symbol. If the object has a blue outline around it when selected, it needs to be broken apart in orderto be tweened.

3. If you want to use a shape tween to morph text, you will need to break apart the text twice. The first time you select Modify > Break Apart, the text you have typed will be broken apart into individual letters. These letters will have a blue outline around them to indicate that they are grouped individually. To ensure that your shape tween will work, you will need to select Modify > Break Apart a second time.

Info:.

1. Change shape also known as morphing

2. Tween means in betweening 2 frames