Hour 12. Improving and Finishing Your Animation

You’ve learned about most of the basic animation techniques, but you may want to use Fireworks MX for more than just advertising banners. In this hour you’ll look at some more ways to control motion by working with objects on more than one frame using multi-frame editing and onion skins. With these tools you can select objects across multiple frames and change how an object moves throughout a sequence by previewing nearby frames. You’ll also learn how to export animations for use on the Web and in other applications.

In this hour you will

• Use tweens to animate symbols across one or more frames

• Adjust the motion of animated elements by using onion skins and multi-frame editing

• Work with the Export Preview dialog to optimize an Animated GIF for the Web

• Export optimized layers and frames to individual files