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Ok my part is done :)

Count me in

At 1/6/10 02:41 PM, teknoZombi wrote: this is a really nice idea for a thread. I'll start with putting in all of the important flash hotkeys.
Switching Tools

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Yeha it's good to know SOME hotkeys but I doubt anyone would read the whole list you posted, maybe pick out the ones you use the most which you feel realy help you and you wanna TIP someone else about, or atleast just post a link tot he full list...

Hey man!

Great initiativ and great tips, tought I'd ship in on some secret ninja animation technique (or SNAT)... or just lame a** tips :(

Tip #1: Shortkeys to move around the timeline is "," and "." this is great to make sure your motion is looking ok and is not jumpy, it's easy to find any errors you might have made this way.

Tip #2: More shortkeys, F5 adds a new frame and F6 makes a new keyframe, don't know how anyone can animate without knowing that... I personaly use them 24/7 pretty much.

Tip #3: Plan your S**t, know what you wanna make the character do before you make them do it, for more advanced tips on planing a movement look at NAT #2

SNAT #1: If you are animating a character that will move around alot on the screen (or even small subtle moves) but you still want something on the character to keep it's volume real tight you can animate it on the side of your animation than paste the frames onto their respective character frames. Aniamting it on the side just makes it so much easier to maintain shape and volume ETC, for example if you have a walkcycle it might be realy important that the head doesn't shrink/grow, than you can animate the head turn on the side than paste it onto the walk, to let you better understand you can check my video on youtube out, if you look at 1:34 you will see me use this ninja technique :)

SNAT #1 Example Video: 1:34

SNAT #2: Yeah so plan your stuff. once you know what you wanna make the character do make keyframes of the movement (keyframes are basicly the frames that are the most essential for your motion to work, use your head and think which frames would be absolutley needed to make the "outline" of the motion, most of the time it's where the direction of the movement changes, but not always). Once you have the keyframes you wanna add frames too them to give them approximatley the time they need to give the animation the right timing. Once you've done that you start adding frames inbetween the keyframes, always changing the timeing as you see it needed untill you have a smooth animation. Watch 0:15-0:25 with focus on the timeline, notice how I keep chaning the length of the frames untill I'm happy.

SNAT #2 Example Video: Watch 0:15-0:25 (focus on the timeline)

Yeah.. it's almoust 6am here now so sorry if I faild while typeing xD.... Hope some of this helped.

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At 1/17/09 09:46 PM, sasuke2910 wrote: are you talking about flash? stopAllSounds();

yeah that's the first part of it, but I need to make it so that it also starts playing an audio clip after it stops all sound, which I can't get to work. I also just realised this mig be the wrong forum :O)

Hello people,

Yeah so I'm working on my secound tutorial (It's about aniamtion and NOT scripting :P) and it's basicly done but I need help with one last feature, I need to have it so that when I press a key all sound stop and after a sound clip starts to play. I've searched the web and tried several diffrent codes but I just can't get it to work, not even close xD So yeah if you know how to do this I would love it if you could help me out here!

/Mathias. J

At 12/3/05 09:59 AM, Grandfather-Clock wrote:

ya thats true.

But hey, there's over 50 of them

lol so? It takes like 5 min to do them eatch

At 12/3/05 07:23 AM, -poppycock- wrote: Does this "honor" include munny?

No, sorry.

At 12/3/05 06:45 AM, Grandfather-Clock wrote: that is possibly the worst story ive ever read

Hm.. lets see... ok I can say it's not the most serious or greatest story ever but at least it got animation in it! I just watched some of your flashes and damn the only thing in all of them that actuly moved was their mouthes! and hell you didn't even make the pictures they are on!

(missed the quato button)

Hm.. lets see... ok I can say it's not the most serious or greatest story ever but at least it got animation in it! I just watched some of your flashes and damn the only thing in all of them that actuly moved was their mouthes! and hell you didn't even make the pictures they are on!

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