This flash tutorial will teach you how to use motion guides. Motion guide let you draw paths along which tweened instance, groups, or text blocked can be animated.

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use motion guides. These basically create a ‘path’ that a movieclip will follow, without you having to animate all of the frames at turning points etc. Your final result will be something like this:

Using this thoroughly explained, detailed lesson, you will see how to create very useful and realistic aquatic bubble animation using a Motion Guide.

In this tutorial I will be showing how to make a Movie Clip follow a line orient to its path. We will animate a butterfly.