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Comparing straight-ahead and pose-to-pose animation

Comparing straight-ahead and pose-to-pose animation - Flash Professional Tutorial

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Comparing straight-ahead and pose-to-pose animation

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In the previous section, I showed you a finished thumbnail of an acting scene, it was quite polished. So, this time I'm going to show you how you would assemble such a thumbnail in Flash and maybe be a little more rough with it. So, here I have created a simple sequence of six poses. Now, the figure is in a haunted house, he's staring off to the left, he hears a creaking floorboard, and then he turns to the right to look up to the side of the stage to see what's going on. So, I did these with the Flash brush tool, and I really wasn't so concerned about making these look pretty, because I don't want people to look at this course and to think, well, he can draw better than I can. There's no point. Even the worst stick man can be better than nothing, and in this case, this is a pretty rough sketch. The only thing that you should really strive for, even if your drawing skills are weak, is try to keep volumes consistent, and this, the proportions of the character consistent. So, I use the…

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