This tutorial will show you how to make glowing edges of the cube. I will take a picture of cube and I will use simple mask effect.



Step 1

First, download my picture.



Step 2

Create a new flash document, press Ctrl+R on the keyboard (Import to Stage), and import my picture. Frame rate set to 16fps (Frames per second).

Step 3

Double click on Layer1 to rename its name into a picture.

Step 4

Create a new layer and place it above the default layer (picture). You can name it lines.



Step 5

Select the Line Tool (N) from the left dialog box and draw the lines on the edges of the cube you want to glow. See picture below:




Step 6

After that ceate a new layer and place it above lines layer and name it mask. Make sure that you have the mask layer selected and draw the "Rectangle" to look like this :



Step 7

After you have created "Rectangle" select it by clicking on it and convert it into a Movie Clip symbol by pressing F8 key.



Step 8

Click on the twentieth frame of layer mask and press F6 (Keyframe) . After that click on the twentieth frame of layers lines and picture and press F5 (Frame). Look at the picture below!



Step 9

Select the twentieth frame of layer mask, click on the rectangle to select it and drag it to the bottom of the stage like this:



Step 10

Now you need to add a Motion Tween between first and 20-th frame in the mask layer. In order to do that you just need to press right click on the first frame and select Create Motion Tween from the drop down menu.



Step 11

Select the mask layer and choose right-click and select mask to turn the layer into a mask.

Test your Movie (Ctrl+Enter)

We're done!

Download source file (.fla)

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