Re: FLASH: Animation

[Catherine Kunicki]

Ellis, 


this is entirely from an art viewpoint:


for animating human figures - or anything squashy stretchy for that matter,

there is no better reference than Preston Blair's "How to Draw and Paint

Cartoon Animation" and "How to Animate Film Cartoons" which is published by

Walter Foster books. (yes those dubious slim pamphlets with other titles

like "How to Draw Cats" and "Floral Designs to Copy".) You can find them

(usually on a stepped rack like comic books) in any good large art supply

store.


Before you get all "no way" about this, as a member of the (late) Screen

Cartoonists Union Local 841, I have had occasion to meet and work with a LOT

of animators. They all have this book. I have bought over 6 copies of it

over the years and each has been stolen by interns : )


the book costs about 8$ these days.


have fun,


catherine


ps. from a flash standpoint, do what Jason just said:

> And it

> basically looked like you just described it, a lot of layers and keyframes

> to get small animations. One thing I did notice though was he used a lot of

> nested movie clips for his animations.





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From: Ellis Creel <reznor1911yahoo [dot] com>

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: FLASH: Animation

>Date: Tue, May 16, 2000, 4:10 PM

>


> hey- i'm pretty new on the message board, but I was

> wondering if someone could give me a couple hints on how to

> animate figures, specifically, humanoids with 2 legs, 2

> arms. i've been converting eyes/leg/leg/arm/arm/head/torso

> to symbols, but then if i want motion tweens it takes *so*

> many layers and so many keyframes just to get a small

> animation that i'm sure there has to be a better way.  so,

> if anyone could help me out, i'd really be appreciative.  I

> know this is kind've beneath the level of most of you guys,

> but I don't know any other way to learn it.

> thanks in advance,

> Ellis Creel

>

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