Fireworks MX 2004 Making GIF animation (1)

The realization of GIF animation, is by a picture in a different time period of rapid display, because the human eye has 0.1 seconds of visual retention, so the image looks like a move up. And each picture is called "frame", it is the basic unit that composes the animation. GIF animation for the Web page to add a lot of lively, complex and changeable graphic elements, so GIF animation in the production of web pages are widely used, and even people like the QQ dynamic expression is mostly GIF animation.

Fireworks are a great tool for making GIF animations, and this is part of a look at the animation features of the fireworks MX 2004.

1, the production of GIF animation

Let's start with a simple five-frame animation example. Randomly draw five objects on the workspace and hold down the SHIFT key to select all objects, as shown in Figure 6-01.

Figure 6-01

Then click the window-Frame command on the menu bar to start the frames panel, as shown in Figure 6-02

Figure 6-02

Clicking the "Assign to Frame" button in the lower-right corner of the frame panel automatically generates a five-frame animation on the frame panel. In this way, a simple animation is done. And this animated object of one to five frames is generated according to the order in which the objects were created. When finished, the animation effect is shown in Figure 6-03.

Figure 6-03

Click the "Add" or "Remove" button in the lower-right corner of the frame panel to add or remove selected frames. The loop button in the lower-left corner of the frames panel sets the number of times the animation will play, as shown in Figure 6-04, which is currently selected as a "perpetual" loop.

Figure 6-04