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Published: 2005-09-26 16:24:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 263011; Favourites: 10444; Downloads: 28280
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Description A Flash Animation Tutorial for people who have never used Macromedia Flash before and totally drown in the technicalities
of all those tutorials online.

I hope it will be useful... I'm often a bit chaotic when it comes to explaining things ^_^;

Good thing this tutorial has about 100 screenshots o_o

Send me a note if you don't get it...
Or see HORRIBLE mistakes in this tutorial.
Don't flame me on my spelling mistakes, I'm Dutch x_o

I love feedback on the usefulness of this XD

Edit:
click here: [link] if you want to download this tutorial as a .exe file,
so you can also use it offline
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Comments: 2494

madelief In reply to ??? [2009-01-29 17:11:12 +0000 UTC]

Flash *is* amazingly time consuming :s

So KEEP MAKING MANGAH! \ o /

XD

I envy people who can make awesomes manga

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The-Yuri-Canon In reply to madelief [2009-02-02 01:26:45 +0000 UTC]

Everything in life seems time consuming, but since I'm disabled and art/writing is my job I can sometimes find time to spare... not as much since I got married, but still.

I never thought I'd return to manga again. It has been 5 years since I switched to writing novels and in all that time I thought people would forget about my manga days, but they keep demanding more so I'm trying to convert one of my new stories into a manga and see how it goes. I'm rather rusty and need to take it slow, but so far so good, I just hope people enjoy the manga version of this story as much as they do the written version.

Speaking of which I need to finish another page this week, got to make time for V-day with my love.

Kat

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Jinva In reply to ??? [2008-10-30 22:46:24 +0000 UTC]

Simply put: YOU ROCK!

yay Flash animation tutorial!

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Apple-Parachutes In reply to ??? [2008-10-28 00:09:35 +0000 UTC]

wow o.o
i just got macromedia flash installed on my computer, dont know why xP
Didnt have a clue how to work it, now i have a good idea, thanks, great tut.

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writersdream In reply to ??? [2008-10-27 23:09:59 +0000 UTC]

never mind ifeel smart now!

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writersdream In reply to ??? [2008-10-27 23:09:07 +0000 UTC]

i feeel like such a idiot but how do you choose a background

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veggiemunky [2008-10-27 20:17:42 +0000 UTC]

very helpful! step by step instructions and screenshots were incredibly helpful :3

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MyLittleAryan In reply to ??? [2008-10-27 06:17:45 +0000 UTC]

if i remember, this was a wildly helpful tutorial.

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LAZYDAYS12 In reply to ??? [2008-10-27 03:10:04 +0000 UTC]

do you know how 2 make dress up games ?

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veggiemunky In reply to LAZYDAYS12 [2008-10-27 20:17:07 +0000 UTC]

[link]

easiest one i have found :3 i used it myself

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dalf-rules In reply to ??? [2008-10-26 12:32:31 +0000 UTC]

This is so helpful! Thanks! ^^

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dalf-rules In reply to ??? [2008-10-26 12:24:48 +0000 UTC]

Oh, so helpful!
Thanks a lot! ^^

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delapore In reply to ??? [2008-10-21 20:29:05 +0000 UTC]

super helpful dude thanks

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ForEver-08 In reply to ??? [2008-10-21 06:08:55 +0000 UTC]

wow. that's a lot. how long did i take for u to make this?? it's REALLY helpful and nice to know for people who never even opened Flash before.

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megasean3000 In reply to ??? [2008-10-19 12:25:07 +0000 UTC]

Cool tutorial I have a question, concerning making a loop everlasting. Say at the end of a movie, you wanted to make a character wave bye-bye, how can you keep him waving forever, without the film pausing him?

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madelief In reply to megasean3000 [2009-01-25 13:02:49 +0000 UTC]

Make him into a symbol and he'll be waving even if the movie stops !

Sorry for the late reply

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TsukiNoTamashii In reply to ??? [2008-10-19 08:26:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much. I got flash yesterday and when I installed it, I was all "@_@ What do I do now?" XD You cleared stuff up for me

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Scorch195 In reply to ??? [2008-10-18 20:57:42 +0000 UTC]

is this the same thing for adobe flash CS3? or do i have to use that program mentioned?

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madelief In reply to Scorch195 [2009-01-25 13:03:19 +0000 UTC]

Adobe Flash CS3 is a newer version of the one used in the tutorial...

Sorry for the late reply,
thanks for commenting!

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ShroomyBear In reply to ??? [2008-10-18 00:39:10 +0000 UTC]

This is the best tutorial ive ever come by, it was very helpfull.
thanks for making it ^-^

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Rocking-Restrictor In reply to ??? [2008-10-12 18:13:15 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! I am a flash noob that knows how to make a panda bear

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Ruby-Aura-Hedgehog In reply to ??? [2008-10-10 19:08:32 +0000 UTC]

helpful.

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0rder66 In reply to ??? [2008-10-08 21:05:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you soo much for posting something like this! It has helped me a great deal.

Although, I am having a few probs:

Every time I try to make a movie clip the whole document expands into this big white sheat into something called "Edit Mode" I believe.

If you could help me, that would be wonderful!

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oblivion-of-sanity In reply to ??? [2008-10-08 01:07:24 +0000 UTC]

Hee hee!! This is awesome!!

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PLUT0 In reply to ??? [2008-10-07 17:17:47 +0000 UTC]

wow, thanks alot, i've been workin with flash for quite sometime, but i've never used actionscrpt. this helped alot with preloaders and buttons, so thanks. good job by de way.

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mrsnerg In reply to ??? [2008-10-06 16:03:57 +0000 UTC]

W('o'W
At Last, a flash tutorial I can understand!

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mrsnerg In reply to mrsnerg [2008-10-06 16:08:17 +0000 UTC]

I meant W{'o'}W, I really should preview wat I write

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0rder66 In reply to ??? [2008-09-29 23:36:42 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful!
Thank you for posting this!

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AriadneArca [2008-09-29 20:23:45 +0000 UTC]

This was very very VERY useful. Thank you so much for making it! I used this to make my friends a birthday present and it went down excellently...

And I feel I've only scratched the surface of what your tutorial can help me create.

[link] , if you're interested.

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madelief In reply to AriadneArca [2009-01-25 13:07:46 +0000 UTC]

*checks*

Awesome stuff!!

Sorry for the late reply, but you did amazing work ^_^
Keep it up!

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AriadneArca In reply to madelief [2009-01-26 22:59:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! And double thanks, once again, for creating this awesome resource

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Kirite In reply to ??? [2008-09-26 01:35:48 +0000 UTC]

My muse is barking at me to make an animation, but wow flash sure is scary to use xD.

Thank you very much for the tutorial!!!!

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MagnoliasDragon [2008-09-22 04:15:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Its really helpful!

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MiniChibiMaru [2008-09-21 00:58:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you~ this helped so much~~ ^u^

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Th55 In reply to ??? [2008-09-20 14:31:31 +0000 UTC]

nice tutorial man i really can do something with that stupid flash program now. only 1 qwestion: what font did u use in the tutorial? because i really like it.

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madelief In reply to Th55 [2009-01-25 13:08:20 +0000 UTC]

o____o
I made it so long ago.. I can't remember I'm afraid ;-;

But thanks very much for commenting!!
(and sorry for the late reply XD )

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mianna In reply to Th55 [2008-09-21 03:33:35 +0000 UTC]

[link]

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AriadneArca In reply to ??? [2008-09-18 16:18:05 +0000 UTC]

Cooooool. Now I just need to get Flash software to make use of this...

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kawazu-sama In reply to ??? [2008-09-11 19:55:07 +0000 UTC]

ik + flash = disaster XD
nu zal het wel beter gaan =w= (hoop ik xD )

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paper-cabbage In reply to ??? [2008-09-09 18:18:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank You...Thank You! With this tutorial I start to make flash animations...Maybe not good, but this tutorial help me a lot.

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QwertyChris In reply to ??? [2008-09-09 10:57:36 +0000 UTC]

This is brilliant and simple. I know a lot of friends who have Flash but are hopeless with it. This ought to help them out a lot. Thank you! ^__^

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pixipui In reply to ??? [2008-09-08 18:15:03 +0000 UTC]

This is going to be so handy

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maillevin In reply to ??? [2008-09-08 11:52:18 +0000 UTC]

the best tutorial which i ever see, thank you now i understand flash :*
ps.
which tablet do you use?

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madelief In reply to maillevin [2009-01-25 13:09:09 +0000 UTC]

I use a Wacom Graphire 3 tablet. It's ancient by now, but still amazing
(sorry for the late reply btw... haven't been on DevArt for a year now )

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HaloOfDuctTape In reply to ??? [2008-09-03 20:18:10 +0000 UTC]

I found this tutorial a while back and just recently bought flash, so now I’m able to put it to good use! It's been a great help, thank you so much :3

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ryu001 [2008-09-03 12:23:49 +0000 UTC]

a big help thx. im going to refer to this everytime i will do my flash thingies again. XD

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Latte3000 In reply to ??? [2008-08-29 02:35:39 +0000 UTC]

haha, this is so cool! maybe now i can finally put Flash to use, after it's been lying around collecting dust ever since i got it XD
thank you!

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moonlightchaos In reply to ??? [2008-08-28 14:17:40 +0000 UTC]

This was really helpful. Thanks!

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suzaku18 In reply to ??? [2008-08-21 16:58:28 +0000 UTC]

Mucho thank you for doing this tutorial! Definitely referring to this when I use Macromedia (Still a no0b; haven't really used it. If ever, when I do, it would be my first time?).

Again, thanks!

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madelief In reply to suzaku18 [2008-08-24 17:02:35 +0000 UTC]

ahahah Flash is great, but superfrustrating...

Good luck

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