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2d Animation?
- Miniike
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2d Animation?
I'd like to learn a bit of animation for an idea I have. Any suggestions? I'm considering Flash.
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- Phantomboy
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I've delved a little bit into 2D animation, across a few mediums. Of course flip books and drawings are the cheapest to start out with and they help practice replication and getting timing right - but if you mess something up it is a lot longer of a process to see the mistake as well as to fix it. There are some cheep software that let you do simple stuff, but like you said Adobe Flash is a good one (I used it quite a bit.) The price sets it quite high, but you can get the trial or maybe look into the older Creative Suites prices. A guy who helped me a lot was YouTube user JazzaStudios - look up some of his Flash tutorials, he talks about lip sync, layer organization and vocals as well! Just stay at it and keep working
EDIT: I just checked and saw Jazza has a drawing channel..
Here is him doing a simple Key-frame animation!
EDIT: I just checked and saw Jazza has a drawing channel..
Here is him doing a simple Key-frame animation!
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- Miniike
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Thanks! I always thought you were bad intentionally...DvChayz wrote:My Recommendations-
Paid: Flash or Toon Boom
UnPaid: Pencil, Synfig, and some other alternatives.
2d animation is easy to learn, its the drawing part and animating that's hard to do, good luck.
also i suck at animating, I'm still trying to learn it so don't ask me for advice. ;_;
for fricking fricks sake why do i still care
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life
- Phantomboy
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- DvChayz
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Well, yes, it was bad intentionally, I'm not that bad. lol.Miniike wrote:Thanks! I always thought you were bad intentionally...
Even if flash smooths it out, tablets REALLY help, I've just gotten one and they make things so much better, I would reccomend one.Phantomboy wrote:Just out of curiosity, do you have a tablet? Flash works fairly well without it (I don't have a tablet with me either) as the smoothing effect that you can turn up to a fairly ridiculous amount really helps mouse drawings!
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Yeah, my brother has one and I've used it a few times for flash - it is very helpful! If you are getting further in to Flash as a like thing it would be quintessential, however as they are quite costly perhaps something to work up to as you are getting into the swing of things.DvChayz wrote:Well, yes, it was bad intentionally, I'm not that bad. lol.
Even if flash smooths it out, tablets REALLY help, I've just gotten one and they make things so much better, I would reccomend one.
- Miniike
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Currently trying pencil.
for fricking fricks sake why do i still care
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life
- Phantomboy
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- Miniike
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Pencil works OK, but I'd like to try a few others before I decide what I want.
By the way, my "project" is a satirical YouTube cartoon. It's working title is "Swirl".
EDIT: Also trying Synfig, though it's alot more complicated than Pencil.
By the way, my "project" is a satirical YouTube cartoon. It's working title is "Swirl".
EDIT: Also trying Synfig, though it's alot more complicated than Pencil.
for fricking fricks sake why do i still care
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life
- Phantomboy
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for fricking fricks sake why do i still care
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life
1. Wild Life 2. China Pig 3. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) 4. Sugar N' Spikes 5. Ant Man Bee
you'll love it, it's a way of life