# Brand new - motion tweening **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041 "2003-07-08T20:22:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cheesin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Cheesin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Cheesin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/1 "2003-07-08T20:22:29Z")
sorry about my noobishness. so i’m making a stick figure animation, and i’m having trouble with making the motions. from the only tutorial i’ve been able to find, it says to make each part of his body an individual layer, and then just rotate each part, moving the center to one end so it rotates around that end. however now the parts don’t stay together, so his forearm will rotate and go into position for the next keyframe, but it won’t stay attached to the rest of his arm during motion. am i doing this wrong? is there something i’m missing? any help is appreciated ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/2 "2003-07-08T20:32:06Z")
Make all of the parts into one movie clip, move the movie clip in the direction the character is going, just animate the limbs to do what you want to do (walk, punch, jump, kick). I am not sure if that is what you are talking about. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/3 "2003-07-08T20:48:22Z")
how do you edit them to do separate things if they’re all in one movie clip?? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/4 "2003-07-08T20:50:15Z")
Each limb should be an individual movie clip within the main (root) movie clip. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/5 "2003-07-08T20:57:27Z")
ar sorry, i don’t think i understand…a movie clip is a layer? if that’s the case, the problem i’m having is that they won’t stay together when i animate them, so it looks like the arm is coming apart during motion ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/6 "2003-07-08T21:05:52Z")
Looks at this, it may help out better: ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/7 "2003-07-08T21:30:38Z")
yeayea i got that part, but the problem was this ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/8 "2003-07-08T21:36:14Z")
Within the arm movie clip, seperate the arm and forarm into two different clips, but make sure that the limb end is in the center so that when it rotates it won’t skew out of line. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brand-new-motion-tweening/25041/9 "2003-07-08T21:38:14Z")
ok, thanks a bunch