This animation is a perfect example of some of the things that can be created using a frame by frame animation technique in Flash. This means that each of the individual frames would have been drawn one after the other and then played in quick succession to give the illusion of movement. Flash is really good for this kind of animation because it has a lot of tools to help such as the "onion skin" view. What this means is that once the frame is duplicated and then cleared, a faint kind of ghost of the last frame is visible so that you know where roughly to draw when changing each frame.
I used to work pretty much solely with frame by frame animation but it has been a long time since then and I will have to reacquaint myself with it. It is much more complex than using tweens but gives much more flexibility when used properly as this video shows.
The video will also have used 'movie clips' which are like small looping movies within the overall movie, which will have been used in any of the instances where a shape repeats a certain set of movements or a while.
This is a really cool style for animation and definitely makes sense within the theme of 'imagination' as nothing in it directly references anything real in a reality based way. I'm not sure if this style would really be suitable for what I have in mind when animating, though it is definitely worth considering.
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