This past two weeks I went back over the layering and animation videos at Atomic learning and then applied what I have learned to animating the banner for the 21st century.

I tried and tested the basketball animation from last week and it seems that the problem was not with the swf file but in fact that some websites (blogger included) do not let you embed flash files.

So the banner which is embedded below is an animated gif file.

The text in the timeline is changed after each 20 frames of the animation. Once you get the hang of it, text animation is easier in Flash than it is in Photoshop.