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KatCardy — Animation Tutorial-Running Dog
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EDIT: This is still getting
s but it would be nice to know of anyone actually using this! - gimmie a link if you make an animation using this as reference will ya? I'm interested to see 
...also, it'd be great if you linked back to this tutorial so that other people can benefit from it too! ^-^-----------------------------------
my good friend Cerzz has started to dabble in the wonderful and pain-staking world of animation!
So far she's been lookin' mostly at dogs, so I quickly knocked up some thumbnails and threw together this tutorial to try and explain a few things. It only took an hour to put together, so it's not meant to be any conclusive lesson in making the perfect run cycle, more that it's simply intended to illustrate a few things which aren't easy to explain in words. I figured I'd post it up here in case anyone else finds it useful!I suggest using this only as a guide, as you can see the animation itself is basic and by no means flawless!!
the animation should loop automatically (if not, right click, loop) and if it's too small to read any of the text, right click, zoom in. my tutors would screw if they knew I was workin' on this instead of my school work lol! ... me go bed now
Hope it helps Cerrz
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you're very welcome!! thanks for the
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I might try to use flash now, you've got me all inspired!
I have used it before, last year at school in my computer studies class... It was fun, but time consuming! I might give it another shot!
And yes, yay for traditional art
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So imformtive! You can even see how the head is supposed to move!!!!!
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yep! people sometimes don't think about secondary motion like the head and the tail but it's just as important as getting the legs to look right! \:]
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Awesome tutorial! It helps not only with animating, but also I can draw an animal in mid-run now. Thanks. :3
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never really thought of that!! glad it's of use one way or the other!! 
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Hey thanks so much for making this I've been looking all over for something like this! It's absolutely perfect!
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nooooo problem
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I don't think it's far from perfect at all! It really helped me visualize how a dog runs. i must have stared at it for an hour or so. I recently have been getting into wolves. So when I wanted to draw one running, your tutorial really helped! Thanks again!
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Omigosh thank yew!
Oh, while I'm here, I've got the CD that has my flash movie on it. I did try and send it to you but hotmail was being an ass and would'nt let me send it because it's a large file 
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make a copy of the CD and send it in the post if ya like ^_^ I'll give you my addy in a note or something
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Cool! This is a great idea. I haven't ever tried quadrapeds in animation, but I'm looking forward to doing it this year in classical and computer. Plus I need to learn how to use flash x_x
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quadropeds can be pretty tough to get the hang of!! x.X - that extra set of legs just serves to confuse issues... and I nearly always get a problem with body shrinkage! lol .. - they're great fun once you get the hang of them tho. \:] - weee!! will you be uploading the animations hear once they're done? ^_^
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I'll try, I must learn to use flash though
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best of luck learnin' flash.. like a lot of software.. you wanna kill it for the first week or so! lol
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I took a sneaky look at this on your pc yesterday and loved it! It works so much better than the Pogo 4legged. (Just realised I'm yet to do a 4 legged run!) Can't wait to see your Flash 'Fish Pie' ness
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yeah... me thinks Ima give up on pogo >.> lol! I should probably tidy this up and finish this so I can stick it on my showreel or summit. - fish pie will be forth coming, but first, cellary and parsnip soup.
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I think you can download a free trial of flash. That's what I've been using. It's running out, tho.
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who was that to?
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Your welcome. But it's only for 30 days. I think it was to somone talking about flash, but not me.
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Thumbs up! This is most nice tutorial. Must be hard to figure out the movement with 2 extra legs.
Btw, does macromedia flash have the ability to convert video files (avis mostly) to flash-format?
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errrm.... kinda... I think you can import avis into it... - but the file size would be huge unless you did some compression magic on it.. - what kinda thing were you thinking of?
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Not pretty sure about it... had an inspiration of the moment about a fanart ani. Thanx anyways
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Thanks mate, that's really good of you to do that for me - I'll try my hardest to get it right next time - it looks great.. thank u very muchness
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glad I could have been of use! ^_^ it'd be no means a perfect tutorial... just a guidelines really... but I feel bad that you're having to teach yourself y'know? I feel like I should try my hardest to share some of the knowlege I've gained from my course \:] - I'll look forward to seein' yer new (and hopefully improved) doggy animation(s)
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awww thanks very much
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righteous tut, to say the least!@
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zat mean ya like it? ^_^
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That's some great tutoring Kat ^.^
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hey great job on this
i wish i had f;lash but i cant afford it
ecelent job though
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thanks! glad you liked it! I presume it's easy enough to follow then? \:]
- if you wanted to try animation out you still could! you don't need flash to do animation on paper
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yeah i do animation already i just reacently finnished one i uploaded. i just never used flash and always wanted to use it
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yeah I knew you did sum... - cos of yer icon innit? ^_^ :goes to look at your latest and greatest... whoah! lotta work gone into that straight jacket one! ^_^ s'cool
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Welcome! I'm trying to learn Flash, today I figured out motion tween! But nothing else.
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very nice. what are you using to actually compile the frames of animation?
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thanks! I quickly stuck this together on macromedia flash. [link]
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