Bouncing text animation using ActionScript 3.0

Flash tutorial on how to create a simple bouncing text animation using ActionScript 3.0.

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Editor’s Review:

Very short Flash tutorial that shows how to create a nice little bouncing text animation. Nicely commented code, and very easy to follow. However, there is one step that the writer didn’t mention that might cause problems for beginners. After you break apart the text, you need to click on each separate letter and convert it to a movie clip symbol (Modify > Convert to Symbol or F8). Now that each letter is a symbol, you can apply an instance name to each, and then follow the rest of the tutorial as stated.

A little self promotion here, but I found this tutorial particularly interesting because it creates a similar effect created in one of my own Flash tutorials on www.mikestickney.com: Flash zoom tutorial. Differences being my tutorial is written for AS 2.0 and uses tween animation, while this animation is done purely in ActionScript to get a similar effect.

Overall, pretty easy Flash tutorial worth checking out to get your feet wet with Flash ActionScript 3.0.

Additional Info
Level: Beginner
Version: CS3
ActionScript: 3.0
Online example: Yes
Source files available: No
Video Tutorial: No