Creating An Animation

Hello. I'm working on creating an animation. I'm using Adobe
Flash CS3. Basically, what I have done is created a character in
Photoshop. There are two images of that character, but when
alternated back and forth, will give the illusion that the
character is running. I've started off pretty simple, but what I
need is a way to combine the two images (both are .png and I've
imported them into Adobe Flash as symbols), so that the character
will look as if he is running when I insert him into the main
animation that I'm doing. I hope this makes sense and I appreciate
any help that can be offered.

Since you say that you only need the two images to simulate
the running, all you need to do is combine them into a movieclip of
their own placing one after the other. You may need to dedicate a
few frames for each image to slow down the running. As long as you
have no actionscript telling it to stop, it will continuously
switch between the two images.

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npqster wrote:
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