Making an Animation

Hi Eveyone...I installed Adobe Flash CS5.5 a couple of days back...Trying to learn a few basic tricks such as motion tween (messed up things with the bone tool though)..Well the problem is, a friend of mine made a 3D drawing in Solid Works(a modelling software). It is a sort of box, now he wants me to make a flash animation for the box which starts from a sheet of paper and folds into a box and then the camera zooms out...
Now i have no idea how to do that..jpg file can be made and imported to flash...but as it will be an imported file how can it be manipulated to achieve the final task....taking screen shots of the box at various stages of solid works can be done and then played all together in flash baut it would be very tiresome and time consuming...
I dont want anyone to make it for me just guide me what tools and tutorials to look at.
Help is much needed and appreciated.
Thanks

Hi,
Here's one way you may accomplish animation.  I replied to another thread about something similar and this seemed to help them.  Kind of the same idea you were getting at by taking screen shots at various positions, let the 3D software do the animaiton for you:
1. Use the 3D modeling software to render about every 3 frames of the animation to reduce file size (3 works pretty well for smooth motion) (render to a file format that supports alpha, like .tga)
2. pull those frames into photoshop and use the alpha information from those frames to extract the "object" from the background (so you end up with just the animation object, no background ) for each frame placing each frame on its own layer in photoshop.
3. save the .psd and then import the .psd into flash (make sure during import to have flash put the layers as keyframes, not layers)
4. drag the newly created movieclip onto the stage and play.
This creates some pretty smooth 3D animation that you can interact with the movieclip.  the file gets a little large because of the sequential images but with carefull consideration of the amount of frames you need you can get by with some reasonable file sizes.  One thing I have found on some animations is that the imported .psd files in flash seem to have some jaggy edges on the individual frames.  I have corrected this problem by saving the .psd layers out to individual .png files and then importing these .png files into flash and removing the imported .psd frames, really just replacing the imported ones with the new, cleaner, .png files, kind of a pain, but worth the quality i think (you can export the layers of a .psd file under file - scripts - export layers to files), really easy.
I'm assuming your friends software can render out sequential images of his animation, render out the frames of the animation to individual frames and then apply the same process as I've outlined above.  Good luck.
dave

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