How to Create a Skiing Animation using Flash?

Flash is an animation activity tool that utilizes different mechanisms to interpret the drawings to make them vectors and ease animation workflow. Launched in 1996 it allowed the users to experiment as much as possible so to give quality projects. It provides complete control over the animation to change frame rate and timing. Features like anticipation, squash, stretch, etc can be easily blended in the animations using this software.

Skiing Animation

Skiing animation is used in entertainment projects or some kind of tour and adventure advertisements, skiing is a sport which is very popular in areas having heavy snowfall, so we will learn to animate the skiing for this we will need a vector image of skier. Follow the below steps to animate skiing.  

Step 1: Open a new project in Adobe Flash.

Step 2: Import the image of the skier on the stage.

Step 3: Name all the layers like a skier, ice slope and trees, background, etc.

Step 4: Select the slope and trees layer and convert it into a symbol.

Step 5: Now double click on it to enter inside the symbol and make copies of the layer.

Step 6: Select all the copies of trees and ice slope and convert them into a symbol.

Step 7: Insert a keyframe at frame 70 and change the position of the slope and trees layer.

Step 8: Select the middle frame and apply classic tween.

Step 9: Now double-click on the symbol to come out to the main stage.

Step 10: Insert frame at frame 50.

Step 11: Now select the muffler and convert it into a symbol.

Step 12: Double click to go inside the symbol.

Step 13: Insert a keyframe at frame 10 by pressing the F6 key and applying shape tween.

Step 14: Add 10 shape hints at frame 1.

Step 15: At frame 10 change the position of shape hints to animate the muffler.

Step 16: Double click to come out to the main stage and then press the run button to see the animation.

Congratulations your skiing animation is ready. Here is the output video of the skiing animation.