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General questions about slightly animated flash christmascard.
Hey,
I'm completely new to flash & digital art. I got a project recently for a christmas card. Basically a digital drawing with some flash animation edited into it.
The rough sketch can be seen here:
Though I just have a slightest idea based on youtube videos of how to do it. Here's what I think I could do (correct me, if wrong):
1)Make the background image in PS as a digital painting
2)Make the characters into vectors in Illustrator.
3)Make the further frames/moving parts of character in Illustrator as well
4)Export the whole thing into Adobe Flash
5)Make it happend.
a)Does my plan have potential?(Though I can finally be sure of it in practice.)
b)What flash format to use to create it, considerint that it'll be used in web, sent out as emails? (There are a number of things in there -Action Script, AIR etc)
c)Any tips for a beginner?
I was planning to use a similar technique used in this tutorial:
All the best,
Andrew
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Senior Member
If you want things (characters) to be animated..
you should make them separate objects.
Using vector graphics will allow for easier editing and smooth transitions/animations.
anything that will NOT move or be static (can be an image of whatever).
however vector illustrations will make the project smaller in size vs importing raster/bitmap graphics.
more or less you have the right idea..
just get to playing with it.. and post pack if you have specific questions or problems.
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You don't need to animate this - the image tells the whole story - very nice!
However ...
as a tip, I used to spend hours making things in illustrator then exporting them to flash and animating them. Now I just make them in flash, if you have CS5 and you are not doing very complex lines (its all about the lines) I find it much easier.
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i found some good links in flashkit.com regarding your matter. I recommend you to search your issue and find the tutorials.
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