Micromedia flash 8 sucks!!! with animation

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Permalink Reply by Ian D. Merch on February 5, 2008 at 5:31pm

Well Flash 10 WILL have a skeletal system in it, and there IS a way to simplify what you need to do.

But remember: Animation is only figured out by doing and observing. As a matter of fact, there's a Flash Puppet on this very forum that you can tinker around with. If you're having problems figuring something out, look at something done by someone who HAS figured it out, and try to figure out what steps they took to make it work, and try to apply it to your own work.

Also use a layer for every part of the stick figure. It takes longer than you'd like, seeing as it's a stick figure, but this kind of thing becomes important later on.

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Permalink Reply by James on February 5, 2008 at 7:18pm

what puppet?

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Permalink Reply by Ian D. Merch on February 8, 2008 at 9:16pm

This one.

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Permalink Reply by James on February 5, 2008 at 7:15pm

No, it's not Flash that sucks, it's you and your stupid class...

And as Stephen once said "This is one of the most ridiculous post I've ever seen. You're just ignorant and don't know how to use the program."

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Permalink Reply by Stephen M. Levinson on February 10, 2008 at 10:47pm

haha kudos to you! my quote fits perfectly! (except this IS the most ridiculous post I've seen yet). You said it perfectly, I'm not going to comment any further. Will just make me angry...

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Permalink Reply by Romanianuser on February 8, 2008 at 6:05pm

believe me ... i got almost 5 years of exp. in flash and from those , 3 years of frame-by-frame . I find it very simple to use and very complex - for various genres of flash . It may be difficult but by that , it makes you free to do almost anything ... I mean - if how they say - flash 10 will have sort of skeletal moves or smth like that ul not be able to do anything you really want ... ul not be "free" . But this is not my choice ... - ive allready made mine .

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Permalink Reply by jimmortensen on February 10, 2008 at 5:20pm

Sorry you don't like the software.

Drop the class, find software you do like, make a film and post it. :)

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Permalink Reply by Bill Mitchell on February 11, 2008 at 8:33pm

Aw, man, you mean animation isn't easy, even with the computer? Forget this, I'm gonna go learn basketweaving...

All kidding aside, it's not the software that does the animation. It's the animator. Period.

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Permalink Reply by Kyoshi on February 14, 2008 at 7:25pm

Get Cs 3

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Permalink Reply by Stephen M. Levinson on February 14, 2008 at 7:35pm

it has nothing to do with the version of Flash.

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Permalink Reply by James on February 14, 2008 at 9:53pm

yeah....i actually still use flash 8...just because I like the over all feel of flash 8 over cs3...

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Permalink Reply by Sreyeesh Garimella on February 14, 2008 at 9:59pm

Flash 8 is good, I like it. I used it last semester in my flash class, and learned a lot of useful techniques that I can apply to animations. I like animating in flash, and I'll also try other software. Right now, the two software I like for 2d animation are ToonBoom and Flash.

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