How Do You Vary Shadow Intensity In Flash Animations?
Animators find it much harder to work with shadows than illustrators do. Shadows change with the motion of the character casting them and its position relative to the light sources. This means you can’t just attach the shadow and have it follow its source. With Flash, you can change the shadow to reflect the background and lighting. Storyboard your animation. It doesn’t have to be highly detailed, but you should sketch frames showing changes between moving and background objects. Indicate where a new object enters the background, characters move into the light and any other important moments. Let’s imagine your animation is a jet flying higher and higher from the ground. Create and name layers for your animation background, jet shadow and jet. Move each object into its corresponding layer on the stage. Make sure to convert the shadow and bird to movie clips (F8.) The jet and shadow should be on separate layers to control the animation. Set the shadow’s alpha to 60 percent. If you have
