Chapter 11. More-Complex Animation Tasks

11. More-Complex Animation Tasks

You've learned to manipulate shapes and animate them one at a time, in a single layer, but Macromedia Flash 8 is capable of handling much more complicated animation tasks. To create complex animated movies, you'll need to work with multiple shapes and multiple layers. You may even want to use multiple scenes to organize long animations. In this chapter, you learn to work with multiple layers in the Timeline, stack animations on the various layers to create more-complex movement, and save animations as reusable elements for easy manipulationeither as animated graphic symbols or as movie-clip symbols. With these techniques, you can really start to bring your animations to life.