Re: FLASH: Animation tips

[francis acquaye]

Chris:

Hope you don't mind me jumping in with some animation

questions too. I checked out the liinks you included.

Cool stuff. Question - When it comes to syncronizing

sound to animated characters in Flash, what have you

found to be the easiset route? I am drawing the layout

of my first animated short. It struck me that it might

be easier to record and insert the spoken dialog into

Flash and then animate the mouth movements and other

expresive movments such as shrugs etc. What do you

think about this? Thanks in advance.


Francis


PS: Is it ok to e-mail you off the list?





--- Chris de Deugd <

cedariaxs4all [dot] nl

> wrote:

> 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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