See this tutorial and learn how to rotate letters in series using some special flash tricks. You don’t have to use action script code to make this lesson.This tutorail is very simple to create but in the same time, you can use it for some text effect, banner, text animation…

Step 1
Create a new flash document.
Step 2
Press Ctrl+J key on the keyboard (Document Properties) and set your dimensions as whatever you like. Select any color as background color.Set your Flash movie’s frame rate to 28 and click ok.

Step 3
Take the Text Tool (A) and type any text on the stage. For this example I have typed “flashfridge”.

Step 4
While the text is still selected, press Ctrl+B key (Break Apart) to break apart it. See the picture below.

After that, choose Modify > Timeline > Distribute to Layers (Ctrl+Shift+D). Now you get this:

Step 5
Take the Selection Tool (V) and click on frame 5 of layer of the first letter and press F6 key. In my example that is letter “f”. See the picture below.

Step 6
Take the Selection Tool (V) again and click once on the first frame.Then, go to the Properties Panel (Ctrl+F3). On the Left side for Tween drop down menu choose Motion, for Ease set 0 and for Rotate choose CW. See the picture below.


Step 7
Click on frame 3 of layer of the second letter, in my example that is letter “l”, and press F6 key. After that, click on frame 8 and press again F6 key.

Step 8
Go back on the frame 3, and go again to the Properties Panel (Ctrl+F3).Then, repeat step 6. See the picture below.

Step 9
Click on frame 8 of layer of the first letter and press F5 key.

We’re done with the first two letters. Repeat this process also for every other letters in text. Finally you have to get this:

Have a nice day!
Download source file (.fla)

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So enough for the introduction, here you can see how to make a gear in flash, then animate it so it rotates, make a couple of copies and the result might seem a bit hypnotic as I think it did.

Start by making an oval on the stage as shown below, then make 4 more ovals, smaller and place them as shown below.

Select all the four small ovals, make a copy and rotate it so we now a 8 following around the big oval shape.

Now if you delete all the small ovals, your shape should look like below.

One last thing to do with the shape is to make on big hole in the middle using the same method as before.

Right click your new gear shape and convert it to a movie clip.

In the timeline make a new keyframe at frame 10, right click between frame 1 and 10, choose motion tween.

Go to the properties panel and change the rotation from auto (default) to CW (clock wise).

Once again right click your shape and convert it to a movie clip, (so we have an movie clip animation in a movie clip).

Make a copy of your gear, double click it and go to the properties, change the rotation from CW to CCW.

That last thing I did was make a lot of copies, placing them next to each other, testing and testing, so they rotate in oppisit direction to make it look right.

If you have a hard time making it work, here is the Flash project file to help you get the gear rotation working.

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