Flash is vector animation software, originally designed to create animations for display on web pages. Vector graphics are ideal for the web because they are so lightweight. Flash animation has a lot of remarkable excellence when it was used in web pages. Do you have a personal web site? Want to use Flash animations on your web site? Want to design professional and famous Flash animations yourself? However, it is not a easy job to design a Flash animation for a beginner. How should we do? Here is a powerful and easy to use Flash animations creator which I want to commend to you. That is KoolMoves which was published by Lucky Monkey Designs. Below is the detailed introduction of it. Take a glance and you will love it soon!

KoolMoves is a web animation software that creates Flash movies and frames for animated gifs. It offers fully-featured drawing tools as well as the ability to import SWF Flash Movie files, FLV Flash Video files, vector clipart, MP3 and wav audio. KoolMoves can be used to create navigation systems, splash pages, flying logos, text effects, character animation, transition effects, drop shadows and much more. Shape fills include color gradient and bitmap. We can select from libraries of 67 action script based text effects, 28 web interfaces, 259 clip art items, 13 animated clip art movies, 70 buttons specially designed for Flash movies and more than 100 text effects templates. KoolMoves makes it easy to create a Flash movie - all we need is an idea. The program was designed by a professional animator to deliver powerful functionality with an easy to use interface. Used by both professionals and novices to create rich interactive content for web sites, KoolMoves is a popular Flash authoring tool with rave industry reviews!

Following are some key functions and benefits of KoolMoves, including:

1. Combining ease-of-use with a wealth of powerful animation effects, KoolMoves makes it easy and inexpensive to create professional quality animations for web sites. As Adobe Flash has developed into the standard for animation on the web, KoolMoves has emerged as an advanced but low cost alternative to Flash.

2. There are five important views of the data. Shape properties, score/timeline, movie overview, list of shapes in the current key frame, and list of all key frames.

3. In the dialog window we can customize the text: font, font style, size (partially shown), and letter spacing (not shown). We can also edit selected text by double-clicking on the text or right-clicking and selecting Properties. Scale, rotate, flip, and squish transformations will affect text. We can not manipulate the points associated with a text object. If we desire to do that, convert the text to shapes with points. We can also add dynamic text which allows input from users or which can be changed as the animation proceeds.

4. We have about half a dozen powerful effects that can be applied to any shape, group of shapes, text, imported SWF movie, or movie clip (Fade In/Out, Expand, Shrink, Zoom In/Out). Most of the effects occur over several key frames and we can specify how many key frames when we create the effect or at a later time. We can also combine effects in many cases. Just add another effect. There are also 3D effects which have a similar user interface to the motion script effect. Each of these 3D effects is highly customizable. 3D effects cannot be combined with other effects.

5. There is a rich selection of drawing tools in KoolMoves: freehand, primitive shapes (ellipse, circle, rectangle and square), and shapes/lines drawn point-by-point.

6. In addition to providing selection capability, KoolMoves also allow us to move shapes and points. We can move previously selected shapes or points by dragging the mouse with the left mouse button depressed.

7. Shapes and text can be filled with a solid color (with or without transparency), a color gradient, or a tiled image. Access to the Shape Fill dialog is through the shape properties dialog box and the Shape Fill tool on the left toolbar.

8. Sounds and actions can be added to frames. With this dialog, we can enter sounds and actions associated with frames of the animation. This is very simple. If we use the same sound file multiple times throughout the movie, it will be referenced that many times in the Flash movie but only defined once.

9. The heart of animation is movement. KoolMoves provides a number of tools to accomplish all these tasks without getting in the way of our creativity.

10. Movie clips are an advanced feature of KoolMoves. It is a movie within a movie with its own frames. Movie clips are important because the properties of movie clips can be dynamically changed via action scripts. There are two ways to create a movie clip: Press the new movie clip toolbar button or press the convert shapes to movie clip toolbar button. There commands are also located under Shapes on the main menu bar.

11. Bones can be attached to anything except symbol shapes. If we are currently drawing shapes as symbols, we should probably turn off this option in Preferences. Bones capability is only available in the Cartooning interface style.

For people just beginning their Flash animation experience, KoolMoves is a great choice because it makes some very technical issues quite simple; for those with experience, it can save a lot of time producing what to them might be considered "normal" results. Either way, it is a great choice.

KoolMoves is a web animation program that creates Flash movies and frames for animated gifs. It offers fully-featured drawing tools as well as the capability to import SWF Flash Movie files, FLV Flash Video files, vector clipart, MP3 and wav audio. KoolMoves can be used to create navigation systems, splash pages, flying logos, text effects, character animation, transition effects, drop shadows and much more. Shape fills include color gradient and bitmap. You can select from libraries of 67 action script based text effects, 28 web interfaces, 259 clip art items, 13 animated clip art movies, 70 buttons specially designed for Flash movies and more than 100 text effects templates. KoolMoves makes it easy to create a Flash movie - all you need is an idea. The software was designed by a professional animator to deliver strong functionality with an easy-to-use interface.

KoolMoves is an affordable, 5 star rated, Flash authoring application, used by both experts and novices to create rich interactive content for web sites. It is ideal for creating high impact web pages, banners, navigation systems, and multimedia slide shows. It features libraries of professional quality text effects, Flash templates, and clip art. For advanced users, it has Flash 9 action scripting, interface components, and bones for character animation.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $49.00, you can free download and get a free trial.