Flash animation

[Eight One]

Yeah....I'm new at this too. I want to make a kick-ass site with some cool flash. Before I do that I need some advice from the experts on which flash-making programs are best as well as any advice. I appreciate it.

[Kidnemo]

Macromedia Flash MX

That's the software you need. There are alot of other "plugin" type programs for it, but like filters for photoshop they all are fairly generic, and projects that use them have that "cut from the same mold" appearance.

www.flashkit.com

That's the only site you'll need when you start out. Start checking source code, download lots of .fla files to see how they work, and do tutorial, after tutorial, after tutorial.

[Thief Silver]

Good luck on your kick ass site, be sure to let us in on it.

What kind of site you making?

[Eight One]

Originally posted by Thief~Silver
Good luck on your kick ass site, be sure to let us in on it.

What kind of site you making?

It's going to be an informative site dedicated to the game Tenkomori Shooting.

[Drewbacca]

Pixel Assasin could help you out. He's in multimedia. I think he knows programming action scripting as well and is currently working on a game for flash.

I am currently working on a gaming cartoon with flash as well, but it takes WAY too long to animate a cartoon for it to be viable.

[Kidnemo]

Originally posted by Andrew
Pixel Assasin could help you out. He's in multimedia. I think he knows programming action scripting as well and is currently working on a game for flash.

I am currently working on a gaming cartoon with flash as well, but it takes WAY too long to animate a cartoon for it to be viable.

I dissagree about Flash being a viable alternative to traditional animation. If you properly use shape tweens and you cut all the parts that you're animating and put them in seperate layers, it will be signifigantly faster than animating each frame by hand.

I'm a Multimedia Developer/Graphic Design by trade fer what it's worth.

[Drewbacca]

I didn't mean that it wasn't viable as a program, or that traditional animation was better (I think it looks better, though), but just that one person animating, voicing, and doing music for one episode with a hectic schedule takes a long time. People want weekly updates and whatnot, and it's not going to happen.

That's what I meant by it not being viable.

But, thanks for the tip. (I already know about tweens and paths and such, but I'm not flash expert, by any means.)

[Regus]

Flash is a bitch to learn, I should know. It took me hours to make two objects rotate in smooth circles. I tried learning the basics, but in the end, I just felt my time was better spent elsewhere.

As for Flash vs Tradional animation, oh please, Flash is great when it comes to the internet, but man alive does it suck ass once you stick on TV. Just take a look at the new episodes of Home Movies, or that Mucha Lucha show.

I hate the herky jerky motions and motion tweened bobbing up and down. You could just tell that it was done in flash, which looks very cheap to me.

[Jeremy]

I actually like how flash was used for Home Movies. Sure beat the crappy usage of "squigglevision" the show used.

[Kidnemo]

Originally posted by Regus
As for Flash vs Tradional animation, oh please, Flash is great when it comes to the internet, but man alive does it suck ass once you stick on TV. Just take a look at the new episodes of Home Movies, or that Mucha Lucha show.

I hate the herky jerky motions and motion tweened bobbing up and down. You could just tell that it was done in flash, which looks very cheap to me.

Flash is like anything else: you get out of it what you put into it.

I totally agree that a majority of the time you can tell when something (an animated short for example) uses flash. It does a good job of outputting a decent product, with another ways to save time and cut corners.