Everybody on Stage!

Here your are. You have created a background for your animation. It is now time to see how to put your animated components together on the stage.

The stage is your working area, where you place your library items, create your animation, link up scenes, assign sound to parts of the animation, implement links to other Web pages, and so on.

It is also on the stage that you define the various key moments of the animation or its interactive passages. An animation can begin at a specific frame, end at another one, or enter the pause mode when no action affects it, etc.



Figure 2: The stage, an area for creating, testing, practising, etc.