Flash is complex, but learning to use it is more fun if you start right in by creating animated movies. While Flash comes with a decent set of vector-graphic drawing tools, we'll bypass them, and rely on graphics you've created in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand. Gary Priester has supplied Unleash.com with an amazing set of tutorials for creating logos using those programs.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create an animated splash screen for a Web site that displays a moving logo, and then opens a Web page in the browser window.
The basic steps are:
- Import your logo (see Gary Priester's Logos for the Design Challenged series) from a vector drawing program.
- Define an animation sequence to move, rotate, and transform your logo.
- Add actionscript commands to jump from your Flash movie to a Web page.
- Publish your movie, and integrate it into your Web site.
Create an animated Logo
With a logo saved to either Freehand or Adobe Illustrator's *.ai file format (an easy export for DRAW users, open Flash 5 and select File, Import. Navigate to your *.ai file, and import it into your Flash movie. As you do, the logo will appear in Frame 1 of your movie (the numbered frames in the Timeline at the top of the movie window control your animation - we'll use them shortly). Click and drag on your logo to locate it in the upper left corner of the stage (the white area where frame content is defined).
Read More: http://www.unleash.com/davidk/flash/flash01.aspx
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