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AssassinKnight-47 — [Tutorial] Sprite Flash Animating for Dummies
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Published: 2015-01-13 08:09:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 10214; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 209
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★ YouTube | Twitter | ko-fi ★This tutorial is long outdated. If you want to get a start on animation, I suggest checking out spritefan2's YouTube playlist as he goes into more depth than this tutorial does.
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wow. Any good places for sounds you can think of?
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Some are in .fla format that I can't give out to any without permission, and some are gathered from YouTube or sound collection sites.
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on your videos, when a character starts twirling their blade, is that the same layer or is the twirling sword seperate?
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is it two different objects on the same layer or what?
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Like I said ages ago, one thing per layer.
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so the sword is one layer and the character is another?
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Yeah. It'll be impossible to tween two things or more on one layer, it'll just screw it up.
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ok. is there a tutorial for sword twirlings?
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Elaborate a bit more. Spinning the sword itself or using the sprites of a sword spinning?
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Hey, I'm having a crapload of trouble with the vCam, could you tell me how I'm supposed to get it to work properly please?
EDIT: Nvm, was using the wrong vCam.
EDIT AGAIN: Greaaat, now more trouble is happening. So, the rectangle bit that's supposed to be my camera? When I ctrl-enter, it doesn't show the correct selection.
As shown here, the camera seems to point more upwards than intended. Any idea why or how to fix it?
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So how do you only play part of a song instead of the whole thing? Because I want to start the song somewhere in the middle.
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Set the song on Stream, and put a blank keyframe on the same layer with the song where you want to end it. Go to your Properties and there should be a little subsection beneath the selected song. Set that on "Stop".
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I meant like I want to play a part in the middle of a song without wasting a whole bunch of time on the whole first part of the song. How do I get it to start playing in the middle?
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ooooohhhhhhh
When you select that song on its respective keyframe, you'll notice a pencil icon in the Properties menu. Click that to see a wavelength of the song. You can trim it, lower the audio on one side or shorten it to your heart's desire. The other long way to do it is in Audacity.
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ok, I'm saving it as flash 5, but when I preview it, the vcam and the button don't work. How do i fix that?
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Flash 5? There's an older version before Flash 8? e.o
I'm pretty sure that version wouldn't have ActionScript 2.0 if that was the case, so you're basically screwed unless you use a better version.
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wait, never mind. I found the problem. It was switched on actionscript 1 for exporting so I changed it to 2
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That's odd. The vcam worked fine for my other video. What's going on? I'm using CS3
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How do you get the characters to hold objects? You know, like apples and other items?
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Same fashion like you would with any other symbol, except instead of placing them on the ground, you place them in front/above their hands.
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How do I do a bounce? You know, when one character is at one pose and when they do something like "*sigh*" and they move while doing that.
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Two keyframes, tween like usual, then at the second keyframe, use the transform tool and "thin" it by clicking the top centre square and dragging it downwards.
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So I stretch a sprite to where it's thinner on the first few frames, then I stretch it back to where it was originally?
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Yeah, or I'd cut a corner and copy the first keyframe's sprite and Ctrl Shift V it there.
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oh, so I can copy the ones I stretch then reverse them?
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Blargh, I'll just GIF you it the process.
Here .
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what if I need to do it for a multi-pose action?
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Same thing. It doesn't affect the animation of whatever symbol it is.
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Where do you get your sfx, because you said I shoulod use SFX other than DBZ.
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Lemme fetch that link real smidgy quick--
Oh. Shit. The link's been deleted. *shrug* I'll sta.sh and note you the .rar.
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So when am I gonna get the sfx files?
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Patience. The bloody thing's 30MB. Give me another 5 minutes.
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ok. didn't mean to be impatient.
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For some odd reason, when I put my swf file in the submission, it says it's not a flash file. How do I get my video on to dA?
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Yasure it's the .swf you're uploading, not the .fla?
Made the category to Flash > Animations?
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ok, i finally got on deviantart, it's right here-> boltblades12.deviantart.com/ar…
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Ok, video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKegHl…
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Hm, that's actually not bad for your first video.
I would recommend you add more frames to when he's talking, since I had to skip back a few seconds just to read what he was saying. I'd also suggest using sounds other than Dragon Ball Z, but then again, finding good sound effects is hard anyway. Overall, I'm impressed.
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Thank you for your input. I'll make sure to do that.
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Nvm, solved that problem myself
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So when I open my animation up, it shows a layer and when I click it twice, it opens up to show the animation. Is that right or did I screw something up?
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How exactly do i post my video then? I finished the best I could and want to upload it.
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Ctrl Enter to export as SWF, then upload that SWF.
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does it work for youtube also?
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You need to install Swivel, which converts SWFs to a video format, which then you can upload to YouTube.
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so do I have to do that to post them to deviantart also or is that just for youtube?
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