Morphing

Keep the stage clean!

It is important to keep your stage “clean” if you work with shape animation. Flash will morph everything you have in the first keyframe to everything which resides in the next keyframe.

It means that if you have a circle in the first keyframe and a rectangle in the second keyframe Flash will easily transfer circle to rectangle. But if you have a circle and a dot in the first keyframe Flash will attempt to make rectangle from both dot and circle. Flash cannot distinguish by itself what elements on the stage were presumed to take part in morphing.

Below you will see example from previous page with two dots “forgotten” in the first keyframe. Touch the picture to animate it. You will see that animation has changed drastically. In this example the animation may be considered original, but result is apparently not what designer expected to see. In real design process sometimes a tiny dot which could be even of the same colour as a background could ruin the morphing animation.

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