Monday, September 27, 2010

Jumping into Animation



September 24, 2010

We're starting to animate characters in flash. This one is just animating a simple jump using Kirby. I'd like to say simple seeing as there are many frames and converting to do. Every piece of the body is converted as a symbol before moving it to create motion. We used "Classic Tweens" for this one. I'd say there were about 45 frames involved for this animation. Creating the background was easy after learning about layers and such. When the body parts were created, you can turn them into separate layers. This made the whole thing a lot easier considering it'd be kind of hard to do it all on one layer. I'm not loving my animation considering it's not that smooth and for some reason the parts disconnect. I must've done something wrong in the whole thing because in the tutorial, it looked like one motion. My Kirby animation looks strained and stiff. I might want to go back and fix this one some day.

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