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What's the trick with flash animation?

Sat Apr 25, 2009, 3:16 AM
Seriously - this is something that has been bothering me since forever.
When animating a character, there are a lot of body parts to animate. But let's say the character is gonna walk into the stage, stop, wave, and then keep walking.

Okay, the walking goes fine, I guess, but when the character stops, what way would be the best for making his arm move WITHOUT havin' to draw the entire body again and again in the exact same position? Usually, drawing it all again and again looks pretty odd and disturbing. So, as the explaination goes by, what's the trick? Separate layers? Objects? Movie clips? GUAAHH it bothers me to PIECES D|

Please help

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~N2tZ Apr 25, 2009, 4:19:03 AM
Just figure out what parts of the body you have to move and make the rest into a object or a group or something so you don't have to redraw that. Or practice more and just do it fbf
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*Tatchu Apr 25, 2009, 4:43:48 AM
Thank you - I haven't gotten into that thing about objects and groups - exactly how does it work?

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=griffsnuff Apr 25, 2009, 6:26:14 AM
:D you can make separate layers for eatch animated part, like the head, feet, arms, body, "tail" and animate them all separatly and make it into a symbol and tween it over the screen and you can almost do anything xD then you dont have to draw the figure again and againr and you can also use insetframe so the first one is on the second frame and change the parts you want to animate

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*Tatchu Apr 25, 2009, 7:15:01 AM
...thanks 8D
It appears that using less than 5 layers is an impossible task... |D

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=griffsnuff Apr 25, 2009, 8:33:53 AM
xD hehe i use only one layer, mostly because im more of a traditional paper anuimator working in flash, xDD;;

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*Tatchu Apr 25, 2009, 8:39:05 AM
I've never tried traditional animation OwO I need a courseee

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=griffsnuff Apr 25, 2009, 8:49:27 AM
8D its fun , try postit books and make a flipbook 8D

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*Tatchu Apr 25, 2009, 8:55:02 AM
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~N2tZ Apr 25, 2009, 9:21:54 AM
If I remember correctly then groups are like temporary objects. Just select something and press ctrl+g or something. Then you can double-click it to open/edit it. Objects/movie clips/graphics are like permanent groups. They go to your libary and you can just drag them to the stage. To make an object just select something and find a button in the libary that should make it into a object. You can then choose if you want it to be a movie clip or a graphic or something.
You should look up some tutorials about flash. Newgrounds.com has some nice user-made tutorials and pixel2life.com is also a pretty good place :)
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