This easy tutorial will show you how to make an animation you can apply with a still image or animation in Flash, and make it look like damaged film.

And so, let us begin.

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This tutorial will teach you how to create a really slick and easy shine effect.

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This tutorial will demonstrate how to make a pen appear as though it is writing by itself.

There are parts of this tutorial that may seem confusing or a little difficult, but as always I will try to break things down into steps that are as easy as possible.

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This tutorial will show you how to make some glowing Christmas lights in Fireworks and Flash.

We’re going to make it a little more interesting and have a picture of a reindeer in the animation as well, instead of just-some-lights.

The reindeer image was obtained from Stock.xchng.

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This tutorial will show you how to create a smooth, frame-by-frame, “drawing” animation. Don’t let frame-by-frame scare you, this is really easy.

To practice this, start with a fairly simple piece of art. My animation in here has a little more detail with it, but you’ll honestly pick this up so fast that you’ll be doing more complex things than this one here. But, for the purpose of this tutorial, I will be working with this self-portrait I created.

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This is a tutorial on how to make a character or object move along a path drawn in Flash.

I’m taking this tutorial from the point of where you have a character or object and would like it to move along a designated path, drawn on the Stage.

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