Is it possible to create (good) flash animations in flash builder?

Flash Builder and Flash each have their appropriate uses. While you technically can make good applications with Flash and good animations with Flash Builder, it's much harder than using the appropriate tool for the job If all you want to do is programmatically move some sprites around the screen, Flash Builder will work fine. If you want more complex stuff that you want to build visually, it will be easier and better with Flash.

Flash Builder and Flash each have their appropriate uses. While you technically can make good applications with Flash and good animations with Flash Builder, it's much harder than using the appropriate tool for the job. If all you want to do is programmatically move some sprites around the screen, Flash Builder will work fine.

If you want more complex stuff that you want to build visually, it will be easier and better with Flash.

It depends on what you mean by "as good. " Certain animations, like transitions and object movement (tree node opening/closing, etc. ), can be very sophisticated and are actually easier to do programatically. For other effects, like football players running across the screen, you are probably not going to be able to do them well, if at all, in FB.

Take a look at one of the more popular tweening engines, TweenLite: greensock.com/tweenlite/ It can create pretty complex animations purely in code, however for things like character animation there's nothing beats the good old timeline + a bit of onion skinning.

Really, if you want to make animations by hand, rather than programmatically, Flash is the answer. Give them both a whirl. They work well together.

You can program in Flash, but it's a little weak in that area. Things might have improved since I last used it. Flash's strength is in actually creating graphics and animations.

Flash Builder on the other hand is an Eclipse based environment, and is specifically for programming/debugging/profiling/ui layout - like VS, Eclipse or Netbeans: Not really what I would call an animation tool. But you can certainly make things move/rotate etc, and load or embed animations in SWF format. The docs explain how to embed external assets in Flex here - including swfs: Embedding Asset Types.

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