Macromedia Flash is becoming popular amongst web designers because of the versatile illustration and high-speed animation capabilities. Animation of movement is termed "tweening." There are different types of tweening in Flash. This animation feature was inherited from its predecessor software called "Director." An object on the scene can be moved from one point of origin to another point of destination. The tween can follow a path defined by the guide layer (which is drawn by the user). Motion tweening can be used for animations such as bird flying, train zooming and anvil dropping. Shape tweening is when the original object morphs to the final object. You can use shape tweening to ease the work in creating complex animation, such as beard growing. Use multiple beard-growing techniques on a face and you have a werewolf!

Most web designers use Flash for introductory movies to websites or for games. Most media websites are done in Flash, such as the official website of Tomb Raider. Even Hollywood already knows the potential in Flash. Slow loading of Flash animations is a 90% myth because Flash can use vector graphics technology to drastically reduce the animation file size. Vector graphics technology is prominent in Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. How it works is, normally graphics software like Photoshop save each and every pixel of the image into a file. But in Corel Draw, only the vertices (points that join to make the shape of the image) of a vector image are saved into a file. So a 640 by 480 pixels means storing all 307200 pixels into a file versus storing 5 points of a pentagon into a file.

The future is interactivity; so don't be afraid of new technology because it's here for your success.