[sleepingfish]

www.flashkit.com

- good selection of tutorials and movie files to pick your way through

[Narate]

I think for a beginner you should start by learning/understanding tweens
(motion and shape) after you figure out how to make objects move thats half the battle.

Then its a case of learning motion guides and masking.

If you like abit of programming you can learn actionscripting...try doing it expert mode to understand better what you are doing. You will need to learn some simple stuff like 'stop' 'goto' 'ifFrameLoaded'

good luck

[BugJam]

Not sure about what u mean exactly but, it seams a mask kinda work.
Its done in layers, one of them works like a mask =( like in illustrator), and that would make the effect, maybe if u post a like i could help a bit more.

[Stickman]

The effect may also have been achieved by tracing the entire outline of the keyboard in its own layer in the animation. Then, from the final frame, chop bigger and bigger segments off the outline in each previous frame until the first frame has no outline at all and the last one is still complete. When you play it back, the outline will scan across the keyboard.

[Narate]

motion tween
shape tween
soften fill edges
graphics
movies
mask
motion guides
IfFrameLoaded
Goto
Stop
GetURL

in that order

[dan]

huh?

Am I missing something here? Whats all this talk of masks and keyboards... what masks and keyboards... I am truly confusticated

[oli]

It appears some posts went missing on the changeover

[dan]

I see, the I shall simply sit back and observe