This tutorial is written for SwishMax Beginners with lots of images so you can easily find your way around, at completion you'll be able to create your own animated sparkling stars and twinkles.

This is what your finished banner will look like:

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Lets begin, open up swishmax in Scene 1 set your background color to black, width 614pixels and height 214pixels and frame rate at 30 as per the image below: For the purpose of this tutorial we're using these settings as I have a premade image we'll be inserting as the background.

The image we're going to use will be this one below (width 614pixels and height 214pixels):