How to make falling snow flakes

Making Snowflakes fall

First you need to open a new document file, there are many steps to open the documents, by pressing the "CTRL+N" or open the File at the top left corner and select "new". Import the background image to the library by clicking at the "File" panel and click at the "Import" and "Import to Library". As below, in number 1. The image will go directly to the Library panel at the right side of the stage. as in number 2.

Drag the picture from the library to the stage and rename the layer as background.


Make a new layer named snowflakes and find a snowflake image in folders or by searching through the internet. The simpler, the better. If the image have a background image or colour, use the trace bitmap to separate the image with its background. Press the delete button if the selected item has been select to delete.

Before and After using "trace Bitmap":

After that, double click the snowflakes image. It will go to a new window. Insert 3 keyframes in each 11sec at the timeline just like below. But the 11 to 24 will be a blank keyframe by inserting  "Blank Keyframe".

Then, the black dot at the11sec will make a new object. Make a new object by select and hold the mouse cursor at the rectangle tool and select the oval tool. Make the colour same as the snowflakes if possible. Put the white circle below the snowflakes so the snow flakes look falling.

The third dot will be the fading white ball, copy the same white circle but this time select the colour panel at the right side of the stage like below and select the "no color" button. Do the same thing like the white colour circle just now, put the no colour circle below the white circle to make it like fading and disappearing to thin air. 


After all that done. Go to the main scene by clicking at the top left corner of the stage. At the main scene, all the timeline of all the layers must be same as the tires but at this time, use the insert keyframe instead of keyframe. The timelines will should be like this.

Finally, copy the snowflakes and place it randomly at the stage and do the looping to make the snow falls randomly. Select the "Loop" at the properties panel under "LOOPING" button. Adjust the size to make it more 3D like.