Animated logo -- and Flash export?

Hi Folks -
So, I'm working on animating this logo:
http://giantmecha.com/uploadedimages/helpme.thumbnail_23554.png
Seems simple, but I can't figure how to go about smoothly animating it. Behaviors? Keyframes? Help. =/
Also, I'm hoping to use it for the web. So, my secondary question is: if I import the Motion file into After Effects, can I then simply export the animation as Flash?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
Evan

Looks like a simple animation. If Flash is your target, I would do the whole thing in Flash using masks. You can take a Illustrator file and just mask and animate the layers.
When you do this in Flash I think that you will find that your file size will be much smaller than producing a .flv or .mov file. Also your logo seems like it is all vector based, thus scalable.
I wouldn't even think about bringing this into After Effects from Motion. No need to, too many steps than what is needed.
You can however turn a Motion file that has been imported into After Effects in to a .swf file. There are limits, as somethings will not be exported a vector art. See Adobe website for infor. They have tutorial videos on the subject.
Do you have Flash? With the new CS3, you can import your Illustrator/ Photoshop layers into Flash layers which you can then animate.
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