Take an image of a writing hand in .png (hand.png) format for your PC. It will serve as a base for your animation.
Then this article is right for you. The fading effect you see in the example can be used with both images and text, and this is a widely spread Flash effect.
This time you will create a bouncing effect animation using Shape Tween and Motion Tween in Flash MX 2004. Download the .fla format, it is given in the end of the article
While rumbling through the net you could notice a number of nice Flash effects, for example ripple effect, some wording on a beautiful sky background, sparkling bordering an object
In this lesson we will show you how to work with layers in Flash MX 2004. If you haven't studied how to create Motion&Shape tween, please, go through them first, because they are the basics of the very tutorial
With the tweening shapes you will create an effect akin to morphing, making one shape emerge into another shape over time. With Flash you can tween not only shapes, but their size, location, and color
Start a new Flash document and create 3 layers in it. Give them some definite name, e.g. actions, hotspot, and cursor and change the Frame rate to 24 fps



