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Unfortunately, Flash does not have any functionality for creating true 3D animations by itself, but if you know a few tricks, sometimes you can fake it. In this flash video tutorial, you will learn how to create a fake 3D rotating globe effect in Flash.

You are going to need Flash Professional 8 for this tutorial. In this video, you will learn how to use Flash 8's blending modes to create a circle that follows the cursor around on the stage, inverting the colors of the image in the layer below the circle.

Sometimes complex shape tweens can become a little out of control, even when we add all the shape hints we can think to add. In fact, sometimes the shape hints only serve to make things worse. In this flash 8 tutorial, you will learn a quick cheat that might fix some of the less desirable shape tween effects that might pop up.