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At 7/15/12 10:34 AM, webufs wrote: So... much... motion tweening...

I feel like you're trying to fill in spaces with repeated drawings and slow motion tweens. The drawings are good, but it kind of dragged on towards the end, and I lost interest. What wasn't motion tweened (ie the swimming) also seemed really awkward, since I think I only saw 3-4 frames looped over and over again. I realize that drawing each frame and making more frame-by-frame is annoying and time-consuming, but it pays off when it looks really good in the end. To me, it seems like you made a bunch of nice drawings, and wanted to force the images to last an entire song.

Webufs, you pretty much hit the nail on the head with that one. All my animations so far (not many, this is my 3rd one) have used tweens for everything. This is actually the first one that IâEUTMve done that uses a little frame by frame. IâEUTMll try and add a little more in the next few days. Maybe IâEUTMll have the fish move around their fins or something to liven the animation up a bit where it drags near the end.

At 7/15/12 01:55 PM, LazyAss23 wrote:

At 7/14/12 10:45 PM, coMpLekS wrote: Just showing a mario animation I'm wrapping it up atm. It will be up on newgrounds in less than a week. Thoughts/Suggestions? I'm not fishing for compliments, do your worst.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/6646f90dbf386e6c88c7beec c86c3898

I have to say its probably going to get daily 1st or 2nd :D I like that I love the style for example the not using a black line using dark color. I think over all animation doesn't have much Fbf, but as said the derpyiness works out all together could make the blood shots not lines but like bigger and have a tint of the water color on the blood, also I like the concept and idea ever doing another short and need someone that know pretty good Fbf id like to talk :D

LazyAss23, thatâEUTMd be sick. As for the blood, maybe IâEUTMll add some blurred blood to it so it doesnâEUTMt look so sharp and linear. I just hope it doesnâEUTMt take up too much CPU to run it. And like I was telling Webufs, Fbf isnâEUTMt my forte so maybe down the road man.

I appreciate the feedback guys.

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At 7/15/12 01:15 AM, Jurgen wrote: I'm not sure if your swimming animation is suppose to look derpy like that (no offence) but if it isn't, try making the arms do that movement at shoulder height rather than swinging his arms at the waist.

Really that's all I can say, otherwise I enjoyed it. You have a nice cartoony style.

None taken. I actually tried to make everything, not just the swimming, as derpy as possible. If the swimming animation looks too awkward, I may tweak it a little bit. I appreciate the feedback.

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Just showing a mario animation I'm wrapping it up atm. It will be up on newgrounds in less than a week. Thoughts/Suggestions? I'm not fishing for compliments, do your worst.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/6646f90dbf386e6c88c7beec c86c3898

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http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/v13qn/kickstarter_fo r_newgrounds_the_forsaken_city_can/

upvote on reddit.

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If you're on reddit, upvote this.
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/v13qn/kickstarter_fo r_newgrounds_the_forsaken_city_can/

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Looks great man. The zooming in and out with the camera makes it that much cooler.

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I remember watching his animations wayyy back in the day. They were awesome. R.I.P. Randy.

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Hey everybody,

I'm in the process of making a flash animation for school. it's about 2/3's animated already, but I still need to write an ending... I'm looking to make it quick and punchy. Anyone have any thoughts?

If I like any suggestions I'll make sure to add a thanks in the credits.

Click Here To Watch

Originally I was going to have the boy make friends with the robot. Over time the boy would gradually grow tired of him and makes new friends, but it just doesn't feel right. I also had an idea of him blowing up in the boys face but my teacher didn't like that idea, hehe. I have a couple weeks before its due so time isn't really on my side. So if anyone has any random ideas throw 'em out.

Also, if any animators out there knows how to stop the choppiness in the video when I export, it'd be huge HUGEEE

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Also, if anyone knows how to stop the choppiness (lag time) in the video when I export, it'd be huge HUGEEE

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<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4w2W-5gT ZbA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4w2W-5gTZb A?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w2W-5gTZ bA

Hey everybody,

At the moment, I don't have an ending for this animation. Anyone have any thoughts?

Originally I was going to have the boy make friends with the robot. After some time the boy gradually grows out him and makes new friends, but it just doesn't feel right. I also had an idea of him blowing up in the boys face but my teacher didn't like that idea, hehe.

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Doesn't seem to matter if its on the top layer or not. It's on the top layer in the picture I uploaded (2nd link down).

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At 11/11/10 05:34 PM, FroxTech wrote: The vCam should be on the timeline from the beginning.
At least, that's the only difference I can spot

No go, I wonder what the issue is. The file .fla I downloaded from http://bryanheisey.com/blog/?page_id=19 works perfectly in its own .fla. Only when I transfer the VCam over to my project does it not seem to want to work.

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Whats up,

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/a406 377c8ddcbc4b269158d2b75b0dd2

This is a scene from the animation I'm working on right now. I just discovered the VCam today so maybe someone knows something. If you watch the scene there's a split second delay when the VCam appears on screen.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0b5f 352f56d7caabada5bea32f9e737f
Here's a pic of the timeline.

The only thing I changed was the VCam's visibility but the delay was there before I even changed it. I'm running CS4 with Action Script 2.

http://bryanheisey.com/blog/?page_id=19
^^^^ This is the AS I am using ^^^^

Btw after a few cycles the timing gets really off because the movie clip and scene have a different number of frames.

Any Ideas?

------------------------ actionscript below

/**
* VCam AS2 v1.0
*
* VCam based on original code by Sham Bhangal and Dave Dixon
*
* Dynamic Registration AS2 work by Darron Schall (www.darronschall.com)
* and AS1 work by Robert Penner (www.robertpenner.com)
*
* Special Thanks to Josh Steele and Jeff Brenner
*
* @author Bryan Heisey
* @version 1.0
* @created 1-April-2008
*
* Requirements: Flash 8+ & Actionscript 2
*/

import flash.display.BitmapData;

_visible = true;

addProperty("_x2",get_x2,set_x2);
addProperty("_y2",get_y2,set_y2);
addProperty("_xscale2",get_xscale2,set_x scale2);
addProperty("_yscale2",get_yscale2,set_y scale2);
addProperty("_rotation2",get_rotation2,s et_rotation2);

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Get stage width and height ////////////////////////////////////////
//////

var oldScaleMode:String = stage.scaleMode;
stage.scaleMode = "exactFit";

var sW:Number = Stage.width;
var sH:Number = Stage.height;

stage.scaleMode = oldScaleMode;

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Get Vcam width and height ////////////////////////////////////////
///////

var bounds_obj:Object = this.getBounds(this);

var camH:Number = Math.abs(bounds_obj.yMax-bounds_obj.yMin );
var camW:Number = Math.abs(bounds_obj.xMax-bounds_obj.xMin );

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Creat Point for dynamic registration point //////////////////////////////

var rp = {x:this._x, y:this._y};

onEnterFrame = function ():Void {
camControl();
};

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////

function camControl():Void {

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Move the registration point to the vCams current position ///////////////

rp.x = _x;
rp.y = _y;

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Gets the current scale of the vCam //////////////////////////////////////

var h:Number = camH*(_yscale*.01);
var w:Number = camW*(_xscale*.01);

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Gets the stage to vCam scale ratio //////////////////////////////////////

var _scaleY:Number = sH/h;
var _scaleX:Number = sW/w;

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Positions the parent ////////////////////////////////////////
////////////

_x2 = (w/2)*_scaleX;
_y2 = (h/2)*_scaleY;

_xscale2 = _scaleX*100;
_yscale2 = _scaleY*100;

_rotation2 = -_rotation;

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Apply vCam filters to bitmap ////////////////////////////////////////
////

_parent.filters = this.filters;
_parent.transform.colorTransform = this.transform.colorTransform;

}

this.onUnload = reset;

function reset():Void {

////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////
// Resets parent properties ////////////////////////////////////////
////////

_parent._xscale = 100;
_parent._yscale = 100;
_parent._x = 0;
_parent._y = 0;
_parent._rotation = 0;
_parent._visible = true;

}

function set_x2(value:Number):Void {
var a = {x:rp.x, y:rp.y};
_parent.localToGlobal(a);
_parent._x += value-a.x;
}
function get_x2():Number {
var a = {x:rp.x, y:rp.y};
_parent.localToGlobal(a);
return a.x;
}

function set_y2(value:Number):Void {
var a = {x:rp.x, y:rp.y};
_parent.localToGlobal(a);
_parent._y += value-a.y;
}
function get_y2():Number {
var a = {x:rp.x, y:rp.y};
_parent.localToGlobal(a);
return a.y;
}

function get_xscale2():Number {
return _parent._xscale;
}
function set_xscale2(value:Number):Void {
setProperty2("_xscale",value);
}

function get_yscale2():Number {
return _parent._yscale;
}

function set_yscale2(value:Number):Void {
setProperty2("_yscale",value);
}

function get_rotation2():Number {
return parent.rotation;
}
function set_rotation2(value:Number):Void {
setProperty2("_rotation",value);
}

function setProperty2(prop:String, n:Number):Void {
var a = {x:rp.x, y:rp.y};
_parent.localToGlobal(a);

_parent[prop] = n;

var b = {x:rp.x, y:rp.y};
_parent.localToGlobal(b);

_parent._x -= b.x-a.x;
_parent._y -= b.y-a.y;
}