Morphing one shape into another?

**gwpriester** · 19 November 2006, 03:57 PM

Something more like this. This is more like traditional animation. I guess where there's a will there's a way.

Gary

**WolfMoonHP** · 19 November 2006, 04:15 PM

Gosh, Gary...

Can I sense a tutorial coming on? Pretty Please

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Will

**gwpriester** · 19 November 2006, 05:17 PM

I'm working on a Holiday tutorial for December.

Gary

**MarciaB** · 22 November 2006, 09:56 AM

Well, then I guess I'll have to wait for that tutorial (with pleasure

), because I still
don't get it. All the time I get error messages

even when I tried the blend... What Raymond, Sally and the others did (see Animation gallery) is abracadabra to me. But I'm sure there's a small but very important step I miss!

**Intbel** · 22 November 2006, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by MarciaB

Well, then I guess I'll have to wait for that tutorial (with pleasure

), because I still
don't get it. All the time I get error messages

even when I tried the blend... What Raymond, Sally and the others did (see Animation gallery) is abracadabra to me. But I'm sure there's a small but very important step I miss!

Wot bit wot we did?
You only have to ask ... er, nicely

**gwpriester** · 22 November 2006, 02:09 PM

Marcia and others

To "tween" an object, the object has to be the same shape with the same fill. It can be modified in size, width, height and rotation, but it has to be the same object to be tweened.

So to tween a square and circle as I have discovered, is not possible.

However, this is not the only way to create an animation.

What I did in my example, and Raymond and others have done in their animations is the other, more traditional method.

1. Create a blend of two shapes.

2. Convert to editable shapes and ungroup the blend.

3. Put each of the blend steps on a new frame (one step per frame)

4. Set your display frame for: time.

It takes more time, but it works.

Gary