# Using Illustrator (AI) Files to Animate?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-illustrator-ai-files-to-animate/88540>\
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**Created:** [April 30, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-illustrator-ai-files-to-animate/88540 "2005-04-30T03:53:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![intrakit\_design](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecb155/32.png) [@intrakit\_design](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/intrakit_design)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-illustrator-ai-files-to-animate/88540/1 "2005-04-30T03:53:10Z")

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Basically what i have is a blueprint (floor plan) that i have vectored in illustrator with layers

I Imported the file to flash and it made a graphic symbol… when you open that it has all my layers as flash layers.

what i wanted to do was break apart the walls in the floor plan and have them come together through a tween…

First i converted the graphic symbol to a movie clip symbol

The problem i am having is this: When i make another key frame (say 20 frames later) it stays blank… so any movement i make won’t tween when i try to make it. It seems that the lines in illustrator work the same way as one in flash but it just wont let me fill a new keyframe

is this a common bug… or is there somethign im just missing.

it would be a really quick way to do my animation without retracing it in flash

thanks in advance.  
-steve