Lab 24 Mask

      In this lab, we use Flash CS6 to create a short animation using a mask. Similar to the mask we have used in Photoshop CS6 last year. In Flash, the layer with a mask will only show the area the mask is on, and the period of time when the mask is being shown. With the mask you can have an effect of our character thinking about something using mask. This mask will allow only the parts we want to show in a certain moment to show in the area of the mask. For example, you create a mask at the window, the layer of which that mask is on will only show the layer when it is at the area of the window.

      We need to create a short animation with our character having a thought bubble about the cars moving in perspective, so the used the background from the previous lab, and the minion from my projects. And the mask is the idea bubble of the minion of the cars moving. After, I placed the minion on the empty road, I created a thought bubble that will appear after a few second. Then the imported swf file from lab 23 will appear in the bubble, so it looks like the minion is thinking about the cars that was on the road or will be on the road.

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