2D Character Animation in Adobe Flash – Part 1
2D Character Animation in Adobe Flash – Part 1: Rigging and Tweening Basics. This short video tutorial will walk you through the process I use to rig characters for 2D tweened animation in Adobe Flash. Download the source file here: base14.com
thanks !
Thank you Sooooooooooooooo much!!!!! OMG! This is the only Flash tutorial that actually shows you how to do something! LMAO
thank you! this is very helpful
@miniroll32 Yes, Recent versions of Photoshop have an animation panel that let’s you edit video or image sequences frame by frame. It offers a lot of interesting potential.
@Base14Productions Thanks a lot, thats really helpful! I was just interested because Illustrator obviously offer a lot more in terms of editing, such as many more brush styles etc
Would it be possible to save the animation in Flash, and then import it into Photoshop to add some effects to certain frames? I’m sure there’s an animation mode on there
@miniroll32 Sure you can import scanned images into Flash, just save them as jpg, tif, psd, or whatever and import them! You can use the Live Trace feature in Illustrator to convert them to vectors too, if you want. Just don’t try to actually ANIMATE in Illustrator. That would be very frustrating.
Hi there,
I’ve drawn some backgrounds for an animation I’m going to make, I was wondering if it would be possible to scan and import them into Flash for layout purposes?
Or alternatively, since I’m drawing the animation with a tablet, would it be better to animate in Illustrator?
Thanks very much!
Ah yes, thank you, how did I miss this. :0)
@TFproductionsmedia The layer names just show up as dots? Is that because you’ve just not provided enough room in the panel for the names, and they’re just being represented by a ellipsis? Expanding the names area will fix this.
I’ve distributed the graphic symbol into layers but the names of the layers just show up as dots so I can’t tell what’s what unless I click on the layer on the stage, is there a way to fix this?
Are there any tutorials on creating the character in illustrator first? XD
@Revanchist8525 The style was designed using shapes with no strokes and soft shadows in Illustrator, then animated in Flash and After Effects.
i really want to make those type of graphics how did u do it?
i have anime studio and its iight. but this looks fun, but idk.
Yeah for animation in illustrator, you can export layers as frames, kind of like in photoshop to make gif files, however illustrator can export to animations as gif, of swf, becuz it is vector.
Ah, you’re right that Illustrator has symbols that can produce instances like in Flash. But unlike Flash, they don’t have embedded timelines.
There are symbols in illustrator, you convert an vector are work in to symbols. The symbol tab is right next to the brushes and appearance tabs, in the standard workspace. In CS3 and CS4 you can export symbols from Illustrator to flash as a graphic or movie clip. The select your artwork and click the new button at the bottom of the symbol tab, and a pop-up will ask you if you want a to create a movie clip or graphic symbol.
There’s no such thing as symbols in Illustrator. They’re all raw vector shapes on one layer. I wait until I’m in Flash to distribute to layers.
In illustrator are your poses individual symbols, or do you just have raw vector shapes drawn on a single layer?
thanks so much it worked
This is more than likely caused by not having a consistent pivot point from one keyframe to the next.Make sure you change the location of the pivot point BEFORE copying a keyframe, and then never change it afterward.
confused. when I hit tween the head just like slides downward.. lol any idea what Im going wrong?
oh bit by bit, now i get it, awesome, cheers a bunch
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What you can do it draw something on photoshop, and select it, then copy it and paste it into flash.
well thanks for the reply but im kind of lost, what do you mean?