ABSTRACT
As a designer and animator, one of the most frequently used tools in Flash is the Free Transform tool. It is the most multifaceted tool in the toolbox and will prove to be critical to the transformation and distortion of objects and then some. When using the free transform tool with raw vector objects, the Distort and Envelope subselection tools become available. The envelope tool can help shave some time off a person's production schedule. In this case, the Envelope tool was used to deform the head of the Evil Mime character to represent the effect of being hit by a self-imposed upper-cut. A popular animation request requested on the Flash public forums is how to animate a flat card rotating or flipping 360 degrees. What makes this animation difficult for many to understand is the approach to actually making it.
