New Animation Exchange

hi, remember me!! :rolleyes: :D ... :cow:

nice animation. i like the movment of the ballon and string at the start.

about the string at the end. if you look at string falling (wow, sounds fun, huh) you'll probably notice that when it falls, the bottom starts to fall the same time as the top, so the top will touch the floor *after* the bottom has fallen, because the only force on it is gravity. nothing pushed it, which is what it looks like happend. if that makes sence. :D

i'll see if i can do it in flash later to show what i meen!

laters.

heres a quick, simple and low-quality exapmle.

it gets smaller as it falls, but you get the idea!! :D

I guess im adding my animation as well, it is my second one. the first one was pretty bad but this one has more quality.
I would appreciate feedback for other animations
http://www.deviantart.com/view/3962925/

Thanks bacon! I'll fix mine soon :)

Thanks Munkufust also, I actually find gradient shading harder to do :)

Arikb, thats pretty cool! :D
The one thing, at the start the sounds are a little out, but they soon fix themselves.

The grass looks a little odd as does the beam from the ship, but apart from that it's all pretty good!
I like the alien guy :)

I dont have a sound esditor and I had to use what I found. what could I do to make the beam look real?

nice ani, i'd get rid of the oulines on the beam, maybe make it a bit transparent and use some lightly colored gradients to give it a glow.. but that's just me

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Originally posted by fiddlestick5
nice ani, i'd get rid of the oulines on the beam, maybe make it a bit transparent and use some lightly colored gradients to give it a glow.. but that's just me

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Yeah I think that would do it well.

With the grass, you could make it flat, or you could maybe use the paintbrush tool to draw small blades of grass.

:)

Right I've fixed the string animation!
Thanks for the advice baconman!
:D

cool, looks much better. well done!

ok, what have we learned today?... "to study and examine what we dont know, so that we can learn more about everything around us and thus improve our understanding of animation!! very important! :D

...blah blah :D

[/bullsh*t talk] :D

Hiya. Heres a little walk test with one of my characters. Tell me what you guys think. I'm sure it needs work. Thanks all.

http://www20.brinkster.com/thefourstuds/test.html

I have been a longtime reader of these forums and have learned a great deal from everyone as well as enjoyed your work. I am a high school art teacher and I have the good fortune to teach a few computer design classes also. We use CorelDRAW and PhotoSHOP mostly, but we do a pretty big unit of Flash also.

I'm still a newbie to using Flash, but I thought I would post the second flash cartoon I've made to use as a demo for my students.

When I made this I didn't have a graphics tablet and I just drew it all with a mouse. I never have finished it. I have since gotten a graphire2 tablet as suggested by folks here. I think it's going to be a great help.

Anyway, here's my early learning stage entry:

http://www.parksart.com/robosuit.html

Very slick, I like the way the guy looks, very detailed. I only use the mouse for my stuff, I don't think I could go to tablet.

nice ani, it's so smooth and clean.. reminds me of robocop.. a graphics tablet takes a bit getting use to but once you get it it's great, your style will really start to show

the most beautiful exicution (unfinished)

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nice ani, it's so smooth and clean.. reminds me of robocop.. a graphics tablet takes a bit getting use to but once you get it it's great, your style will really start to show

the most beautiful exicution (unfinished)

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its sad to say but that really is beautiful :)

graphics tablets a very useful, i couldnt do a drawing without variable sized brush strokes ever again!

thank you, i think i'll call it 'pearly death' when it's done

yeah, tablets are wonderful.. i really don't use mine to its fullest potential though.. all flash for me (despite the 1024 pressure levels).. and i have a nice little airbrush tool neatly tucked away in its origonal packageing somewhere...

360 exicution unfinished
http://members.cox.net/toastybuns/bu...hroughhead.swf

i don't think i'll finish this one.. i think my mind is regressing

http://www.angelfire.com/clone/toastybuns/klop.avi

nuke with 'think long' by modest mouse in bg...

first ani that i've ever done with sound... except for a few old ones.. it isn't finished yet, but it will be by tomorrow.. i dunhave any decent video compression programs on me computer so it's a rather obese 6 megs.... i guess it's not really worth your time unless you have a highspeed connection... i don't even know if angelfire lets you hotlink like this..

My students were doing their CorelDRAW assignment and I did this little quick test run while they worked...

Shooter

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http://www.angelfire.com/clone/toastybuns/klop.avi
nuke with 'think long' by modest mouse in bg...

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why oh why did you not export this as a .swf?

probably because i need to look at some sound tutorials in flash... it was also a bitmap sequence.. so it actually kind of about file size (i intend on editing each frame in adobe)

oh's yes,
i like that shooter ani', it's nicely done