It was always tough to provide quality animations on time and due to this reason developers always try to build different tools and plug-ins to ease this process, so adobe made one of the best programs which are known as Flash to solve this problem. It comes with everything packed in a single product from frame-by-frame animation to vector graphics. Different types of files like illustrator or photoshop files can be easily imported into this software to work on those. Flash also allows the developers to add their plug-ins for cameras and other things.
Animating Snowfall
Snowfall animation is one of the attractive animations and it is used in the winter scenes having snow on the houses so we should know how to make it, we will use one of the simplest methods to animate snow for this we need snowflakes which will be used for snowfall animation. Follow the below steps to make snowfall animation.
Step 1: Open a new project in Adobe Flash.
Step 2: Now import a background image on Layer 1 and name this layer as Background.
Step 3: Add a new layer and name it snowflakes.
Step 4: Now import snowflakes on the stage, snowflakes can also be created.
Step 5: Make different copies of the snowflakes and change the size of the snowflakes.
Step 6: Now right-click, a list will appear to click on the convert to symbol option.
Step 7: On the next screen choose the Graphic in type option and click OK.
Step 8: Double click to go inside the symbol.
Step 9: Select all and convert to symbol again by pressing F8.
Step 10: At frame 200 insert a keyframe and change the position of snowflakes from top to bottom.
Step 11: Now select a middle frame and apply Motion tween.
Step 12: Double click to come out of the symbol and add frames at frame 200.
Step 13: Add a new layer and name it snow, copy all the frames from the snowflakes layer and paste it into the snow layer.
Step 14: Now run the animation by pressing the play button.
Congratulations your snowfall animation is ready. Press Ctrl + Enter to see the Output. Here is the output video of the snowfall animation.