Assumed knowledge: Basic Flash MX interface, able to motion tween, knowledge of layers and movieclips
Concepts covered: Tweening with motion guidesEver wanted to amake a tween go in the direction that you want and not in a straight direction? I feel your pain. This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to tween movieclips in and direction that you want through motion guides.

To start first choose a picture of your choice and then convert it into a movieclip. Right click on the layer of the movieclip and select Add motion guide.

On the motion guide layer draw a line with the line tool or the pen tool if you want to be creative. Make sure that the line is all connected . On the movieclip layer right click several frames down the timeline(I chose 20 frames) and create a keyframe, then create a motion tween between the frames of the movieclip layer. Make sure that the guide layer lasts for the same time as the movieclip layer and has no keyframe at the end just a frame. With the movieclip move it over the end of one side of your line and it should snap to the end. Go to the end of your movielcip?’s motion tween and move the movieclip over to the other side of the line. View your animation by pressing Cntrl + Enter and see how it moves where you want it. See how you can?’t see the line of the motion guide in the movie? You can change that line anyway that you want to.

That is how you use motion guides to tween a movieclip into any direction that you want.

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