Working with Text in Flash, Part 2

By tom green in Flash, Tutorial, Video Tutorials
Wednesday January 13, 2010

In the second part of this tutorial, Tom Green gets some text moving using the new Bones tool from Flash CS4. Click here for part one.

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Author: tom green Tom is a professor of Interactive Multimedia through the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s School of Media Studies. Like all faculty in the program, Tom believes his students deserve to be taught by instructors who are regarded as experts in their field and whose knowledge of their subject is current with industry best practice.

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Nancy Mazzone (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

I like viewing these tutorials, woul love to save them to favories ,like you can in utube.
J.Watts (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

This is GREAT!
Cherise Hoak (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

Excellent! Thanks so much for this. You serve up a nicer tutorial than anyone else.
tundetw (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

you should make this available in pdf. Thank you.
Virginia (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

I am new using Flash CS4, this tutorial was very helful, it is very well explained.
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Bastiaan van Ederen / ZeldenMMF (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

Really helpful tutorial.
I’m no flash expert at all but I really like to learn much more about it.
And this helped out very good, easy to keep up and this bone tool ROCKS!

Regards,

Bastiaan van Ederen
http://www.zeldenmmf.com
Tom (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

Nice tutorial. Here’s a time-saver: If you convert the Anchor layer to a motion guide, you don’t have to change the opacity of the graphic, which makes future editing much easier. You’ll still get the animation and the anchors won’t be visible in the final swf file. It will also prevent your canvas from becoming larger than it needs to be to accommodate the invisible graphics. Hope this helps!
SWiSHZOOM (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

wow this site is in my favorite

thanks green
Mary Ann (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

Very nice, thank you! I feel much better about type in Flash, now. I’ve just starting learning Flash, so I’ve been a coward and have been importing type to the stage from Illustrator, rather than using the type tool in Flash. The tutorial also took some of the mystery out of the bones tool – thanks.
Marek Mularczyk (Reply) on Wednesday January 13, 2010

Another great tutorial from Tom!

That IK with text is great, especially that trick with setting alpha for objects down to 0%…. great!