Tag Archives: Animation

No More Animating in Flash!

Okay, for those of you who haven’t heard, I’ve stopped using Flash for animation. Before I explain why, allow me to be clear—I haven’t stopped using Flash for other projects (web design, motion comics, etc.), I just no longer animate with it. For animation, I switched over to a product from Toon Boom called Animate [...]

Create a Rainy Cityscape in Toon Boom Animate

OK Campers, there is a lot involved in this tutorial. It’s a Rainy Cityscape in Toon Boom Animate 2.0. It is 26 minutes and covers: custom settings, Importing Adobe Illustrator files, camera set-up, importing image files, making a rain effect, importing sound, drawing swap, swf test, exporting mov If you don’t have a copy of [...]

Look Ma! FREE 2D Animation Software!

omG! So I was up at about 1am randomly searching Google for stuff, as I do that from time to time, and found a piece of Open Source and or FREE 2D animation software, Pencil. It ROCKS! Enough talk, let me show you. Straight on animation tutorial using Pencil. BTW, using another FREE resource to [...]

Tutorials :: Motion Tweens :: Seamless 360

Here is a lesson on seamless rotations in Flash, from the animation section of the book. This is an example of using Motion Tweens, and rotation options in the Property Inspector. downloadright-click or control-click to download iTunes add tonyteach on iTunes view in browser5:49 | 10.9 MB

New tutorial in the works

Hey Kids, new 3 part tutorial coming soon:1. Seamless Background Loops2. Multiplane Backgrounds3. And last but not least, PiNGing in the Rain!

Tutorials :: Flash :: the stick 02 – bring the stick to life

This is a variation of stick 01, pose-to-pose, we’ll call it stick 02. Adding anticipation, and a little bounce at the end adds life to the stick. downloadright-click or control-click to download iTunes add tonyteach on iTunes view in browser8:08 | 10.3 MB

Tutorials :: Flash :: the stick 01 – pose to pose

Here is a lesson on pose-to-pose animation, the stick 01, from the animation section of the book. This is an example of using Onion Skin, and learning a new way to count… 1,5,3,2,4. downloadright-click or control-click to download iTunes add tonyteach on iTunes view in browser7:20 | 9.2 MB

Tutorials :: Flash – Cartoon Eyes

Here is a lesson, cartoon eyes, from the animation section of the book. This is an example of how to use graphic symbols in Single Frame mode in Flash.This tutorial is a little over 16 minutes long, but I cover a lot.16:41 | 45.2 MB

Animation vs. Story

I have a concern. Once upon a time, in the heyday of Bugs, Mickey and the like, there were great stories, voice work, music, foley and sound effects, and awesome animation. These works took entire studios to produce.Now, with todays technology, animations and even movies can be created by a small group, or even one [...]

Tutorials :: Flash – wiggle text

Here is a lesson, wiggle text, from the animation section of the book. This is an example of how to use Onion Skin in Flash.6:34 | 10.39 MB