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Published: 2010-06-26 00:19:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 5677; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 62
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The two different methods I use is Onion skin and Stick Figure Choreography.Onion Skin is used for simpler, higher detailed animation.
Stick Figure Choreography is used for high framed animations. I do all my fight scenes with it.
I prefer using the SFC (Stick Figure Choreography) because I can animate a stick figure and see if the animation is fluid. This is the reason why I use Flash.
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With practice and patience, you can surpass me
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really you think so? I was looking at your animation tutorials on youtube and its just so many steps I dont know where to start. But don't worry though I'll try something simple and work from there.
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I am going to make some new one around christmas so maybe I can simplify it a bit.
However, its just watching anime and study it. Slow it down and see how each frame progresses.
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Do you hand draw the lines (free hand) for the onion method or do you use like vector lines and pen tools?
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How You Do The Onion Skin Part?
Is The Clothes Layer Still Behind The Head?
(I Know Because I Watched Your Video)
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In Flash, there's a button for it. In PS, you need to have the last layer unhidden at about 40-50% opacity.
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I know about the onion skin, what i'm asking is the neck, Is the clothes layer still behind it. because that's what you said in this video [link]
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I've been watching your animations on youtube....I think Your Stick figure choreography is amazing.
Keep up the GREAT work!
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thanks! this looks much easier then doing. ITS SO HARD! looks cooooool. cant wait for kakashi vs sasuke. outline is awesome.
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If I gat it right you create a vector animation in flash and color it in photoshop. Clever you couldn't make such straight lines in photoshop. I really like that idea. It only disapoints me, that I will have to work with flash too. I thought the new photoshop (CS5) I am getting in September is going to have some inbuild vector stuff all ready. OMG this means I must get flash as well. Anyway you worked out quite a nice method of combining these two programes. I finally understand why your animations are so smooth. :-D
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For the onion skin, do you just draw straight onto Flash? No guidelines?
Awesome to See The Process BTW
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You can use SFC in photoshop. put it in a group then make another group for the drawing
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it's perfect but give a bit blur on both sasuke sakura & kakashi just al litle bit of blur and then you got a real traditional japanese style anime
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I thought you used Photoshop CS4 
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I do. Flash and Photoshop cs4
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SFC, is it just drawing out the stick figure and seeing how it animates or do you use IK bones on a drawn stick figure?
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I draw the stick figures to see how it animates.
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Woooow, its coool to see how you do your animating! 
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id really like to watch u animate, i think u should do like a live thing
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keyframe 260... pretty much
my biggest was about 90.. heh
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Wow, this sure looks hard... And I was hoping to learn one day, but I doubt I can remember how to do all this... And I don't have the patience lol. Keep up the great work ^_^ and 10 out of 5 from me xD
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Cool work,Smyton4tw.I am kinda learning.That stick figure method is very cool.I think I will try using it.BTW,that zooming method u told me about,I tried it out and it works.Thanks man.
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wow dude that pretty cool
thanks i learned something ^^
its looking pretty neat
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you use a shit load of keyframes lol, btw cant wait to see it
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looks great, cant wait for your naruto animation and the in game episode
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