Re: FLASH: Animation tips

[Chris de Deugd]

Hi Francis,


Of course you can email me off - list! I have to check before I answer your

question, because there is also a difference in loading involved, that I

noticed when I worked on Love's Philosophy.

I'll get back to you later today.


Chris



----- Original Message -----

From: francis acquaye <

facquayeyahoo [dot] com

>

To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

>

Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 10:39 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Animation tips



> 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




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NudeGuru.com is proud to sponsor the Flasher list

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        IT'S  THE  ART  OF  MONEY,  HONEY!

 Tips and Advice from some of the most popular Flash

 artists + industry power-brokers on how to hold onto

 your rights, negotiate contracts and get full value

 for your work.http://www.nudeguru.com from Franke James

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To unsubscribe or change your list settings go to

http://www.chinwag.com/flasher or email

helpchinwag [dot] com