Animation the OldFashioned Way

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Chapter 7

• Animation the Old-Fashioned Way

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Preview

• Frame by frame approach
• Frame view
• Onion skin
• Pauses
• Motion
• Flicker

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Brute-Force Technique

• Flip book approach
• One page drawn at a time
• One frame created at a time
• TryIt p.160 through p.162 Previewing
• Pay attention to details

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Previewing Animations

• If a real project, save first
• Source file (.fla)
• Scrubbing
• Quick but not accurate
• Enter
• OK
• Control Enter
• Best
• Creates actual .swf file

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.swf files

• Review p. 162 .swf files box
• .fla is the source file
• Need to keep it
• You can make a .swf from a .fla
• Can NOT make a .fla from a .swf

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One Keyframe at a Time

• When necessary
• Subject has lots of details
• Example Someone walking
• F6 inserts new keyframe
• Includes copy of previous keyframe
• Can edit/create only in keyframes

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Frame View Settings

• Different ways to view each frame
• NO effect on the movie
• Tiny icon at top right of timeline

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Using Onion Skin Tools

• Just another view
• Allows you to VIEW multiple frames at once
• See difference in motion between frames
• Does not affect the final movie
• TryIt p.165

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Incorporating Pauses F5

• If you DONT want an image to
• change EVERY frame, rather every 10 frames
• To slow down certain parts of a movie
• To pause an action
• Sleeping
• Before a kick
• Insert REGULAR frame F5
• F5 is NOT a keyframe
• Do not edit ANYTHING in F5/Regular frame!!!

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Implying Motion

• Not necessary to draw EVERY step
• Just draw main points
• F6/keyframes
• Add F5/regular frames for pauses
• Soccer example

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Flicker Effect

• Strobe light on /off show/hide
• Create movie
• Insert BLANK keyframes F7
• Nothing off
• Sun flicker example
• TryIt p.171
• Especially steps 8 9, increasing pauses

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Review

• Frame by frame approach
• Frame view
• Onion skin
• Pauses
• Motion
• Flicker
• F5
• F6
• F7