Thursday, August 6, 2009

Breaking Text Apart

You can break apart text to place each character in a seprate text block.After you break text apart, you can quickly distribute the text blocks to different place on the stage and change the color of each character seprately.
Step 1: Create a plain text using text tool in Flash, say a text 'ANIMATION'.
Step 2: Select the Selection tool and click a text block.

Step 3: Select Modify --> Break Apart (Ctrl + B).Each character in the selection text is placed in a separate text block.The text remains in the same poition on the Stage.
Step 4: Select the text block one by one and change their colors.
Step 5: Make the change in the positions of the alphabets.
Step 6: Click in the Second keyframe and press F6 to insert keyframe. Make a change in the color and the position of the alphabets so as to produce an animation sequence.
Step 7: Repeat the step 6as far as desired to create animation.
Step 8: Save the work and test the movie.(Ctrl + Enter).
Thanks for reading!!

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