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Published: 2006-12-08 05:42:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1583; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 22
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I ventured into Flash for the first time. Well, I've used Flash before, but I've never actually drawn anything in Flash using the drawing tools provided. Once or twice in the past I've used Flash to compile frames that I made in illustrator. There is a bit of a learning curve I think. I can't figure out how to get motion guides to work the way I want.
>_< I think everyone makes an animation like this. Hehe..Ohh. I think I'm gonna add a monster.... Yea!
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Nice stuff Miss Array, flash for fun.... I wish.... animating data with actionscript more like it.... projectile barf..... sorry, that was gross..... anyway, Cloud, yeah he's "emo" cool, Master Chief he's bad ass "cool", Gordon Freeman's got that geeky "cool" thing going, but Link is just the best. Period. End of discussion. He got me hooked on video games in my early teens (mid 80s), and brought my love of gaming back full throttle in my mid twenties (mid/late 90s). Captian Tangent signing off.
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Hahaha you drew his hair like mine xD
Don't worry, I tried a lot of hting in flash and I suck ^^u
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Was this frame-by-frame? If so, wait till you discover tweens!
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wow, suprisingly, you're art style looks PERFECT for flash!
Everyone is advancing to flash now except me
Oh, I just received the cards today! They're lovely! I got so excited when I saw them on the table the moment I got home haha! thanks so much Ray! You'll be getting one in the mail too, hopefully before Christmas...haha! talk about time crunching
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Yay! Happy to hear you got the cards!!!! I can't wait to get mine. YAYAY!
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Oh yeah! I totally love em! I didnt actually expect the little extra ones as well hehe ^__^
To be honest with ya, I havent even mailed the cards out yet haha! 
It ain't as awesome as the ones you sent but hopefully you'll like em and get them before Chirstmas. lol go me T__T
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this looks like a good start to a cool movie.
flash is easy once you get the hang of it!
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The other thing to remember when using motion tweens is to check your property box and make sure the rotation is set to clockwise (CW) or counter-clockwise(CCW) depending on what you need.
ALSO, check the orientation point (that little white circle that shows up when you have your transform/rotate tool on) on each keyframe to make sure they're in the same spot. It should default to the center of the symbol but sometimes when you're rotating stuff around you move it. It doesn't HAVE to be in the center but it should be in the same location on both keyframes.
This is very nice for a first flash experiment. You should see mine, it's an atrocity compared to this xD
Hope this helps!
~marji
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Thanks for the advice!!!!! Do you have your first animation online anywhere?
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yessssss...I doooo.....feel free to laugh at my newbieness! This is before I started doing it for a living
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~marji
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ooh, that's cool! It would look great with a monster...
I tried using flash once, but it was too hard and I got scared and had to go lie down...
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Well its a fun little animation. I kind of want to jump on the flash bandwagon.
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You should.. Seems to be an industry standard... and much easier than pen and paper animation.!
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Ha reason I don't is because I don't have the program and too poor to want to buy it.
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Oooo. Your style transfered nicely. With the motion quides, what problem are you running into (taught begining flash in high school class) . Really, the more animation you can do without tweens the better it will come out, but tell me what you are running into and I'll see if I can help.
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Wow you taught begining flash? That's cool! I wanted to have a motion guide for the arm, but it wouldn't rotate in the right direction... does that make sense? It would just move up... I'm starting to learn about the drawing tools, but any suggestions would be helpful.
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Yeah I had to teach it because we had a new teacher and I was in the advanced class, so I got stuck with the job. :s
Well, first question would be, are you applying more then one tween per layer? Second question is, did you make the arm a symbol? Third question (er point really), I would have to see a screen shot to how you are setting it up and then correct it from there if I can.
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woo! add one of the crazy skull-backed-spidrs from ocarina! (the ones that hang from the ceiling!) woo! YEAH! *runs round swinging plastic sword under a zelda-induced hyper-frenzy*
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I love video game induced plastic sword frenzies.. They are the best! One of those spiders would be good!
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That's such a cute little flasherific Link. What is he saying?
Oh, yes, and the monster should totally be one of those rabid chickens. Those things were straight from the seventh layer of heck.
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Hehe. I kinda think he is he saying 'Yap, Yap Yap Yap'. That is a kinda general mouth shape, could be anything. Thanks for suggesting a monster, I was hoping someone would. I keep trying to conjure out monsters from Link to the Past (my favorite), but.... Nothing came to mind. I do love chickens. 
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He's probably telepathic. That's why there's never a speech bubble.
Good luck on choosing a suitable monster!
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cute! I'm a total flashtard, bu t hey, oh well... you should try After Effects
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I've always wanted to know that program! Hehe.. So many programs so little time! We've got to pace ourselves.. XD
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i know! i don't have enough room in my schedule to take an extra class to learn flash (thats for internet media design majors), and i wont be taking any illustrator classes (thats for graphic design, my old major 
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I had this crazy massive authorizing DVD error a few weeks ago.. *this reminds me of it*. I had to make a DVD reel and my only authorizing DVD program I had was Adobe Encore 1.0. It came up with this error that wouldn't let it build it to a DVD.. it was already like 2am. I evenutally got it to build and export the files to my harddrive and I tranfered them manually to a DVD...but it was PC only compatible because of it. I was gonna freak if the place only had MACs. I still don't know what's wrong with it. Technology errors... That is what being a digial media major is all about.. *shakes head* Staying up all night to babysit something that is rendering.. GAhh!
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I know! I never though making DVD's could be so damn irritating! Hows Encore overall? I don't have any authoring software at home, but my school's got DVD Studio Pro on their Macs, which is pretty great (considering its the ONLY DVD software available to me). I can't wait to get a Mac... really really really REALLY can't wait to get a Mac....
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I really really really really really can't wait to get a mac either.
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