My World Cup: Flash about rolling football animation production

The World Cup, today the dream of the wind to teach you to use Flash to draw rolling football animation, so that more like to watch the ball design fans themselves to make their favorite football animation.

First of all, let's take a look at the effects of Flash rolling soccer animation. You can notice that the football is turning, and there are shadow effects following the motion.

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First open the Flash software, create a new 90x160 pixel, background color is white, frame frequency of 24FPS files.

The next process is a little bit complicated, in order to produce a frame-by-step soccer rotation animation, so first hand-painted 24 football rotation screen.

To make it visible, change the background to pink and press Ctrl+f8 to create a new graphic symbol named Symbol 1.

In the toolbox on the left, select the multi-angle Star tool, and then click Options in the Properties panel below to set the style to polygon, the number of edges to 6, and the size of the star vertex to adjust to the standard.

Use the arrow tools, Subselection tools, freeform tools, fill deformation tools to draw each hexagon of the soccer ball and group them together. Note that the stroke color is black, and the fill color is divided into black and white two kinds.

After making a football graphic, we create other graphic components and draw the other graphics separately. I'll list the 24 drawings I've drawn below, and we can draw them all in one hand. Hand-drawn skills can be at the end of the article download source files for control learning.

To create a new movie clip symbol, drag the 24 soccer graphics into the editing area in order, one for every 2 frames.

Click the ① "Edit multiple Frames" button on the timeline. Then drag the end drawing ② cursor to the end, and then press CTRL + A to select all the shapes in the edit area, and in the Alignment panel, click ③ Center and ④ vertical alignment in the Align options.

Tip: Many frames can be edited by editing multiple frames, which is suitable for the movement of frame-by-step animation components.

The 24 football graphics are aligned after the edit, and now back in the scene, drag the movie clip symbol of the football into the scene and use the freeform tool to resize to the appropriate size.

Then we'll make a shadow of football, drag the movie clip symbol of the soccer ball in again, use the Freeform tool to resize to the appropriate size, then select ① Advanced in the color option of the property bar below, and then click Settings, and finally set the alpha value in the advanced effect to 20%.

The final step is to save and press CTRL + ENTER for testing, we look at this rotating football is not to make the World Cup more exciting!