# Animating an unfolding box

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-an-unfolding-box/21115>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 17, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-an-unfolding-box/21115 "2003-05-17T09:09:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@cturner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cturner)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-an-unfolding-box/21115/1 "2003-05-17T09:09:06Z")

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I need to know how to animate an unfolding box. I have tried to skew squares and use a shape tween with shape hints but it isn’t working out. Is there a tutorial? It is quite urgent.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-an-unfolding-box/21115/2 "2003-05-17T13:04:25Z")

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I did this only with tweens and having the good registration points, check out the .fla [http://mlkdesign.online.fr/misc/kirupa/boxy.fla](http://mlkdesign.online.fr/misc/kirupa/boxy.fla) if you want…

\<div align=“center”\>\<embed src=http://mlkdesign.free.fr/misc/kirupa/boxy.swf height=300 width=300 type=application/x-shockwave-flash\>  
\<b\>\<font color="#011111"\>\<a [href="mailto:mlkdesign@free.fr](mailto:href=%22mailto:mlkdesign@free.fr)?subject=Problems With The Box"\> \</a\> Could be improved, all down in tweens \</b\>\</font\>\</div\>