Bounce & Spin

In PSP open a new image 400 x 200. With a fat font type out your name, or whatever text you like. Be sure you have create on vector selected. After you click apply go to Objects>Align>Center in Canvas.

You will need the supplies here.

Now, copy and paste as a new animation in AS. Go to Effects>Insert Image Effects with the following settings:

Click on the Customize button and make sure that you have Vertical Checked.

Still in AS open new image 400x600. Go to Animation>Insert Frames>Empty with the following settings:

You should now have 16 blank frames which is the # of frames your pinched text should have. Select all. Go back to the pinched text animation, select all and drag into your blank frames.

Open the jumping tube are using in PSP. You may need to resize them to fit with your text size. I resized the ones I'm using by 50%. Copy your resized tube and paste as a new animation in AS. Drag it into the first frame of your animation. Place it so that it looks as if it is jumping directly on your text.

Now go back to your tube image (don't worry if it shows just a blank frame, hit CTRL+Z to undo and it will be right there). Drag it into your second frame, but move it slightly up from where you placed it in frame one. This is where your onion skin tool really comes in handy so you can see a transparent outline of your previous frame.

Continue doing this until your jumper is almost to the top of the image. Mine went to frame 9.

Next, open up your spinning tube in PSP. Resize it the same as you did for your jumper tube. If you are using the same one as I did you are going to need 4 different angles of your tube so that it will appear to be spinning. So, your first image you will want it to look as if it just curled up from jumping. Go to Image>Free Rotate>Right>45. Now go to Image>Flip and you should have it at this angle.

Copy and paste as a new animation in AS. Go back to PSP. Image>Free Rotate>Right>90. Copy and paste as new animation in AS. Do this 2 more times. You should now have a total of 4 spinner images as shown below.

In AS now, take your first spinner and drag into your next frame. (Mine is frame 10) Place it directly over the onion skin of your last jumper. Now, drag that same tube to your next blank frame, but move I up slightly. It should be to the top of your canvas now.

Go to your next spinner angle and drag it into the next frame. Place it directly over the onion skin of the last spinner. Do the same with the next 2 spinner tube angles.

Go back to your first spinner tube and drag it into your next frame (15) and place it directly on the onion skin of the last spinner. Drag that tube image into the last frame as well moving it slightly down from the onion skin.

If you want at this point you can change your frame properties. I left mine at 10. I thought it looked okay. You should now have something similar to this.

Have fun!!

Mae