Shooting Star Animation using Flash

Last Updated : 08 Mar, 2022

Flash is a cross-platform software, it fulfills the animator’s purpose to animate in old fashion frame by frame at the same time delivering the capabilities of modern technological methods. It provides tools, features, plug-ins, an inbuilt camera, different file format support along code insertion techniques to ease the whole process. Flash is widely known for these features and become the first choice of many.

Animating Shooting Star

Shooting star animation is the most commonly used animation in nearly all projects which contains night scenes, this is because shooting stars make the sky much more attractive and keep the users engaging during a scene so we will learn to animate it by using simple techniques. Follow the below steps to animate a shooting star.

Step 1: Open a new project in Adobe Flash.

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Step 2: Import the image to the stage.

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Step 3: Add a new layer and name it a shooting star.

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Step 4: Use the rectangle tool to draw a rectangle on the stage.

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Step 5: Choose a Linear gradient from the Color panel.

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Step 6: Convert the rectangle to the symbol by pressing F8. Choose graphic from the type option.

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Step 7: Enter into the symbol by double-clicking on it.

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Step 8: Use the Oval tool to make the head of the shooting star.

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Step 9: Insert a keyframe at frame 20.

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Step 10: At frame 20 press the F button to change the gradient so it looks like fading away.

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Step 11: Select a middle frame and apply shape tween.

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Step 12: Now double click to come out from the symbol and add a frame at frame 20 by pressing F5 and at shooting layer insert a keyframe at frame 20 by pressing F6.

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