Tweens and Things

what is a Tween?

"Inbetweening or tweening is the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image. Inbetweens are the drawings between the key frames which help to create the illusion of motion. Inbetweening is a key process in all types of animation, including computer animation."

Via Wikipedia

So yeah, in other words a tween its whats in between your key frames and stuff. alot of underground flash artists consider this cheating but others don't, others consider this something that helps make the animation much easier.

here is some examples of some Tweens


Classic Tween

"This is a motion tween performed the way they were done in all
versions of Flash prior to CS4. To do this type of tween, you need to set a
keyframe for the start point, and a keyframe for the end point."
via Ritcher(Google Groups)







Shape Tween

"A tween on pure vector graphics. You can only do this with
objects that haven't been grouped or changed into a symbol. Great for the
effect of a shape that changes."
via Ritcher(Google Groups)







Motion Tween

"This is the new CS4 method of tweening. It doesn't use
keyframes the same way. Essentially, you set up the tween, and then start
moving the object around at different frames. The tween will be updated at
that frame. This is also the only way to do 3D tweening."
Via Ritcher (Google Groups)






3D Tween

This is done after you do a motion tween you can actually convert this tween in to a "3d tween" it is mostly used with text or shapes and it gives them a 3d like effect.