Re: FLASH: Animation tips

[Chris de Deugd]

Hi Thomas,


The cartoon walk is being translated into Flash like this: the original

pencil drawn animation has been scanned and traced in Flash. I've turned as

many parts of him as possible into symbols. They are animated by motion

tweens. Things that change from frame to frame, like his hair, or his

moustache were not made into symbols, and are being animated frame by frame.

I have just finished the second part of that cartoon and will put it there

sometime later. The most tedious part about animatiing like this is that

every little bit has to be on a layer of it's own.


The shadow is basically just 19 frames or so, but there are no keys: it's

completely frame by frame, and every position had to be done separately.

This one was drawn directly into Flash. Because it was all contour, the

outline mode was very helpful.


That's it...hope it helps..


Chris





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From: Thomas Arnoldi <

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Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 6:24 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: Animation tips



> I saw your animations. Great. But what do you mean when you say to

translate

> into flash about the walking man. Actually that's the kind of animation I

> like to work

> with. And what about the other, The shadow man, did you fill in th gaps

> between the key-frames in flash.

>

> Thanks Thomas Arnoldi

>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Chris de

> Deugd

> Sent: 2. september 2000 16:31

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Animation tips

>

> Hi Thomas,

>

> I was trained to be a tradional animator, but work a lot with Flash, so

> maybe I

> am able to help you..

> Both the scanner can be used, as the method of drawing directly into

Flash,

> it

> depends on what you need and what works best for you. Scanning often comes

> down

> to tracing all the drawings in Flash, which takes a lot of time..it must

be

> worth it. I try to skip as many details as possible and turn everything

into

> symbols.

>

> Drawing on paper is for me the easiest way to animate: flipping in Flash

> doesn't work quite so fast and so clear, so in Flash I prefer to animate

> with

> symbols, using motion guides and masks..and still try to make it look like

a

> real animation..not something stiff.

> I can't tell you out of the blue what you should or shouldn't do..there is

> so

> much to animation. You really need to have a good structure in order to

stay

> organized.

> You might want to look at some of the things I did, and then ask me some

> more

> precise questions ?

>

>

> Good luck,

>

> Chris

> ---------------------------------------------

> My Flash animations can be found at :

> http://www.xs4all.nl/~aria

>

> Ronnie Sampson has a nice cartoon, not sure if he's done more :

> http://www.sfo.com/~viridian/FlashLab.html

>

> Dorian Nisinson has some Flash animations

> http://www.nisinson.com

>





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