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2013-03-12 11:48 9019855 Anonymous (WIP.png 1280x768 328kB)
Hey /mlp/, I wanna try to get into animating, but I am not sure where to start. I once tried following online tutorials, and they explained some things, but overall it never clicked. How can I best learn to make the awesome animations which'll allow me to show which things I'd like each pony to hump??

15 min later 9020046 Anonymous
Each part of a body should be another layer. Like the body, left arm, right arm, ect... Draw each frame for the certain body part you want to move. From what I've noticed so far.

18 min later 9020082 Anonymous
>>9020046 Are these to be different layers completely, or simply different layers in a single symbol? >each additional word makes me sound more and more pleb

25 min later 9020153 Anonymous
>>9020082 What do you mean symbol? I've taught myself so far. I don't know all the correct terminology. But, it seems like from the context, symbol is a folder, or more of a hierarchy device. Then yes. You should use one. For each character.

26 min later 9020169 Anonymous
Download those flash puppets they had on EqD a while back and mess around with them.

35 min later 9020253 Anonymous
>>9020169 Oh neat, I didn't know these types of things existed! Well, as n00b as I am, I may not fully understand these puppets, but they seem interesting to play around with.

39 min later 9020296 Anonymous
Also, is there any reason Action Script 2 might be better than 3? For some reason, at some point I came under the impression that people thought AS2 was better. I dunno...

1 hours later 9020551 Anonymous
Can anyone vouch for the helpfulness of the Double Rainboom guy's series of tutorials? Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQlf sG4ged4

1 hours later 9020770 Anonymous
>>9020551 Yes it's a good tutorial, I knew nothing about flash a week ago, and just after watching his tutorials I was able to animate a walkingcycle with double rainboom's rainbow dash puppet ! (took me ~10 hours, worth it).

1 hours later 9020829 Anonymous
>>9020770 That's pretty neat! This is kinda random, but have you gained any skill in eye movement, like blinking or narrowing of the eyes? That seem like it'd throw me off...

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