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At 3/1/13 10:31 PM, pixelatedcocoa wrote: The legs look good. I think you should put more bounce in the hips (like this) so that the character's upper body seems more believable. This could be easy if you take the top part and make it into a graphics symbol, and then motion tweening it in the timeline (so you can still preserve the arm swinging motion). Also, try to give the lower arm more of a swing (you can break it apart and make a skeleton out of it using the bone tool, if your version of Flash has that available) Also, the head has a really great expression, but it might look more smooth if it didn't move so dramatically. Also, you might want to make the sun a little slower (just add more frames to the motion tween) so that it looks farther in the background and creates parallax.

I hope that helped. :P

It did, thanks so much. The head was just a silly little thing i did to make it a little bit more comic, as well as a facial expression, which was actually based on a face my friend does every now and then XD. also, I don't have the bone tool, neither did I know it existed, thanks for informing me, I'll have to get a newer version of flash then :P Great advice BTW.

Hi guys, I've recently been trying to make better and more extensive flashes, but I don't know enough skills to do it well, so this thread is basically advice for how nooby animators can become better at what they want to do. Here is a okay animation which took me about 2 to 3 hours to do and it was just a general skill test: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/e2a47d62760341b93caa0f17 9d8bddf0
I would love to know how people think I could improve.
Thanks