From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
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Creating thumbnails - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
Creating thumbnails
It can be quite intimidating when you're handed a really complicated scene, or a scene that pushes the capabilities of what you think the software can handle. So when this happens to you, and it's happened to me on one Flash project where I was given a fairly complex action scene, just walk away from the computer. Just get a notebook, a horizontally lined notebook, and take whatever notes you can and then just thumbnail it. Get a piece of paper and a pencil and an eraser and just draw. And, you don't have to be a great draftsman. About this level of draftsmanship is more than enough. Actually even these hands might be considered overkill. So even if you can only draw stick figures, I strongly recommend you begin the process of becoming comfortable with sketching thumbnails. The beauty of using a lined notepaper like this is that even though it looks a bit like a high school student's doodle, you have horizontal lines that act as a ground plane. I was able to pick this line here as a…
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