Animating your character movie clip walking movement

 

Step1

Double click  the power symbol to start editing it. Select the top layer frame 10, hold down your shift key and select bottom layer frame10. All layers should now be selected. Use your F6 shortcut key to create keyframes on frame 10

 

Step2

Animating heads

Select all head elements on frame 10

 

Step3

Using the free transform tool rotate the head group

on frame 10

 

 

Step4

Select frame 1 of each element that you modified on frame 10

 

 

Step5

 example: select left_eye , in the properties for that frame select tween /motion

Each time you do this  an arrow will appear between each key frame.

Now move the timer back and forth and you should have a smooth animation playback

 

 

Step6

Preview movie, your character should have a walking motion. note: "it is jumpy"

 

Step7

Repeat steps 2-6 on frame 20 of all layers to complete a walk cycle

 

 

Step8

Now try to tween the movie on the stage by adding a motion guide as in the ball animation in exercise1 .

 

 

Step9

Make sure your character is attached to the motion guide

Step10

You can even try to add a shadow

 

 

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