Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity

6.1. Drawing a Cartoon Character The first thing you need for your cartoon character is a body. Since this character will serve as a mascot for this book, you'll make his body from a box and then add a face and legs. In doing so, you'll see how th...

6.2. Controlling the Character with ActionScript As you saw previously, you need to add a stop() action to the main timeline to prevent an animation from looping automatically. In addition, you need to tell the legs to stop moving when the ch...