एनीमेशन

एनीमेशन हरकत का भ्रम पैदा करने के लिए 2-डी या ३-डी कलाकृति या मॉडल छाविओं का तेज़ी से प्रर्दशित होने वाला एक अनुक्रम है। यह हरकत (motion) का प्रकाशिक भ्रम (optical illusion) दृष्टि के हठ (persistence of vision) के कारण है और भिन्न तरीकों से प्रर्दशित चलचित्र या वीडियो (video) कार्यक्रम एनीमेशन पेश करने की सबसे आम विधि है, हालांकि एनीमेशन पेश करने के और भी कई रूप हैं एनीमेशन कभी कभी एक समुदाय को सक्रिय करने का एक तरीका यानी उपभोग्कर्ता को 'जीवित करने' का उल्लेख है इस का अर्थ है क्रिया जो किसी दिए गए सेवा के साथ बातचीत करने के लिए उपयोगकर्ताओं को प्रोत्साहित करती हो और वह अनतिक्रम (moderation) से जुड़ी है।

A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film which is created by Adobe Flash or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Flash animation not only refers to the file format but to a certain kind of movement and visual style. With dozens of Flash animated television series, countless more Flash animated television commercials, and award-winning online shorts in circulation, Flash animation is currently enjoying a renaissance.

With Adobe Flash, you can create artwork and animations that add motion and visualinterest to your Web pages. Flash movies can be interactive – users can click buttons orrollover images to stop, start, or move to another segment of the movie. You can createvector artwork using Flash or you can import graphics, music, and sounds into your Flashmovie. You animations are exported as Flash Player movies. These movies are compact,which allows for faster downloads on the WWW.

Tools

The Tools menu is probably the most used panel in Flash. In it are the tools needed to manipulate items on the stage. It can also be used to do actions on the timeline.

Here are the main tools and their uses;

• Selection Tool (v) - Selecting whole objects and moving them.
• Subselection Tool - Selecting partial objects.
• Line Tool - Drawing straight lines.
• Lasso Tool - Selecting irregular shaped pieces of an object
• Pen Tool - Drawing non-straight and curved lines.
• Text Tool (t) - Inputting a textbox onto the stage.
• Oval Tool - Drawing oval and circle shapes. (Drag + Holding Shift = Circles)
• Shape Tool - By default draws rectangles. (Drag + Holding Shift = Squares)
• Pencil Tool - Free drawing thin lines.
• Brush Tool- Free drawing brush shapes.
• Free Transform - Scale, rotate, and skew an object.
• Fill Transform - Distort the gradient fill of an object.
• Stroke Tool - Change the color and size of a stroke.
• Fill Tool - Change the color of a fill.
• Eyedropper - Sample a color from the stage.
• Eraser - Use a brush to erase parts of an object.
• Hand Tool - Move the stage around if it is not all visible.
• Zoom - Zoom in or out.