Random realism in Flash

Animating in Flash isn’t easy and, once you’ve set up your scene and begun animating your main characters or other focus, you need to bring life to the background elements.

This may seem a daunting task: how do you animate the rustling of trees or avoid having cloned flowers that sway in unison? By using a simple piece of ActionScript you can add randomness to your animations that can be tweaked to give either wildly different or subtly varying results. It’s a great timesaving technique that has many uses beyond those detailed in this tutorial.

Here we deal with creating an animated web banner. Whether you’re a well-versed animator who wants to cut time and add realism to the backgrounds of your work, or you have less experience and want to learn how to make quick progress in creating a simple web animation, this tutorial is ideal.

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