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Snowflake Animation tutorial
Published: 2010-01-15 02:24:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 25675; Favourites: 1274; Downloads: 1060
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Here's that snowflake tutorial I said I'd do. It teaches you how to create some rather realistic looking falling snowflakes in Flash. I used Flash CS4 here, but it should work w/ earlier versions too.I threw this together really quickly so I don't know how clear the instructions are. It's also kinda hard to explain... but I hope you can figure out the steps >_< If not, just leave a comment and I'll try to answer your questions if it hasn't been answered already.
Here's the final product:
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-edit Dec 23rd 2010-
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Comments: 107
this tutorial is amazing but im so beginner on flash i cant do it
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Been trying to figure out how to do this for like two weeks, thank you
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Thank you for this wonderful tutorial, it was very simple and easy to follow!! Here's what I used the tutorial for!
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Again thanks! ^^
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Thnx!
I haven't used gimp so I'm not sure. Conceptually it should work, but I dunno if you'll be able to make it loop in gimp.
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... *Claps* You should make a YouTube video on how to do this so we can see it more. ^^
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This is beauitful! I have GOT to try it! Many thanks ^__^
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This is really cool! Thank you! I want to try and do this and make rain.
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thank you so much for the tutorial, it's really awesome, and snow looks absolutely natural)
but I have some questions - actually I'm a newbie in flash, so these words like "action script" and "programming" scary hell out of me)) so, I'll just point out some steps that I may do utterly wrong (btw english isn't my native language so may be I just couldn't get something right))
1) creating snowflakes_ani - should I select everything on the layer, then ctrl+c/ctrl+v and just put this copied piece on the empty space on the stage or there some stuff with frames changing? btw when I create snowflakes_ani by selecting these two copies and converting to movieclip, snowflakes_mc on the main stage turns into snowflakes_ani (I mean symbol by itself, not a name). Is it supposed to happen or I made a mistake?
2) well, finally when I finish all the stuff in snowflake_mc timeline and test my movie all I get is snowflakes fall down uncovering absolutely empty space on the top of the frame and then cycle repeats again.
I hope you didn't get tired by reading this and excuse me for being such a noob))
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Thanks! Sorry for the late reply
Yeah when you make snowflakes_ani you just copy & paste and put the copied piece in the empty spaces above the the original copy. And once you convert it into snowflake_ani it should appear as snowflake_ani on the main stage (so yeah it's suppose to happen
For your second question do you have a screenshot? Since I'm not sure I understand what the error is >.< Are you referring to snowflakes uncovering the gray areas outside of the main stage? There will be snowflakes outside of the main stage, but that's alright since if you test the movie with "ctrl+enter" you won't see anything on the "gray areas", therefore creating the illusion that snowflakes are falling down endlessly. I'm not really good at explaining XD; if I didn't answer your questions properly it would be best if you had a screenshot, or Email me your .fla file
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oh thank you so much for reply)) sent you my .fla)
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np!
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HOLY COW! This is freaking awesome, thank you so much for making it! (+fav)
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Thanks
This took forever tho 
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thank you so much this is very very extremely superbly *insert more good adjectives* helpful
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LoL Thank you!
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thanks for this very useful tutorial. Ever since I've seen it I totally wanted to make a snow animation too.
and here's the final product
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Happy 2011!!1!!1!!
Congratulations on your Daily Deviation!!
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Thank you so much once again
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Yay it looks great!! Happy New Year
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I love the tutorial
However, I do encounter a problem. When I create the snowflake_ani movie clip, the snowflake_mc one turns invisible and all the dots are gone. I also can't get it to move/play.
I'm a beginner with flash, so it's new to me. Any tips on how to fix this?
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Thanks!
Hmm that is strange... I'm not quite sure what the problem would be... Make sure everything in snowflake_mc is selected before creating snowflake_ani. Alternatively, you can try creating snowflake_ani first then create snowflake_mc second. i.e draw the dots, create snowflake_ani. Then with that movieclip selected, hit F8 again to create a movieclip out of that movieclip =] I hope it works!
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Sounds complicated. Thanks for your help though, I'll try my best!
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Very nice and basic tutorial. I would definitely use this for an animation I'm planning to make.
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That's fantastic,I loved it
P.S: Am I the only one who noticed the back button is not working
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This will help me out wonderfully well.
Thank you!
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Wow this is absolute genius! O_o Really. One day, I shall get into the world of flash and GIFs
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Very cool! I hope to be able to use this method one day when I get/learn Flash!
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O_O Amazing~
(but the back button don't work on the last page) D:
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Thank you so much!!! I've been wanting something like this for awhile!! Thanks for making this & congrats on the DD!!!
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I've been looking for a tutorial like this to make a christmas animation...too bad it is too late, but I can still make something with it! =3
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Wow, that's awesome! I didn't know it was so simple! Thank you very much for making it! ^___^
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