How to Create a Walking Chicken Animation on Flash?

In flash we can animate walk cycles easily, there are two types of walk cycles one is the front walk cycle and the other is the sidewalk cycle so we will animate the front walk cycle. The front walk cycle is periodic in nature as any character will move to one side and then move to the other side and this will go in the loop so we will animate a chick along with its shadow walking in the front direction.

Animating a Walking Chick

Animating different characters is essential for any scene as a scene is composed of different components so each component plays an important role in making animations appealing. We will create a chick walking animation, for this we will need a vector image of a chick with different parts like legs, wings, body, etc. Follow the below steps to animate a walking chick.

Step 1: Open a new project in Adobe Flash.

Step 2: Import the chick image on the stage, make sure to use copyright-free images.

Step 3: Convert the image to a graphic symbol.

Step 4: Double click to enter inside the symbol.

Step 5: Add new layers using the Add new layer button on the timeline and on each layer place the different parts of the chick.

Step 6: Insert a keyframe at frame 5.

Step 7: Give a new pose to the chick so that it looks like it is lifting its leg.

Step 8: Select middle frames on all layers and apply classic tweens.

Step 9: Insert the keyframe at frame 9 by pressing F6 and changing the pose of the chick so it looks like it is lifting the other leg this time.

Step 10: Apply classic tween by selecting the middle frames.

Step 11: Insert a keyframe at frame 13 and copy the keyframes from frame 5 and paste them on frame 13 because these poses are the same except for the legs so place the left leg up.

Step 12: Apply classic tween by selecting the middle frames.

Step 13: Copy the frames from frame 1 and paste them on frame 17 by inserting the keyframe as these poses are exactly the same.

Step 14: Apply classic tween by selecting the middle frames.

Step 15: Now double click to come out of the symbol to the main stage and insert a frame at frame 150.

Step 16: Press the run button to see the animation.

Congratulations your walking chick animation is ready now you can press Ctrl + Enter to see the final output of the animation.