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Frame by frame animation may still produce quality work when passionately worked on, but I find it inefficient considering the amount of time needed to produce even just a fraction of a second. I've decided to teach myself the different tweens to make my life easier, but I'm having a very hard time learning it.

Before I ask though, I want to know if shape tween is actually used by experienced animators. Is it worth learning? Do people even use shape tween? From what I've been seeing, it seems like shape tween is what makes animations easier to create, or am I wrong?

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f1e2f0718da99e22940ff84e493b5487

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Above is a link of the issues I'm having with shape tween so far. I really don't understand how to control where the lines go, even with corresponding shape hints I can completely control the shape tween until i start adding lines in between and add shadings or multiple solid colors in the shapes. Does anyone know a way around this? Any additional tips or advice on shape tweens?

Because I barely know what I'm doing haha

something's wrong with the audio I've imported in flash. Whenever I play it, it's all high pitched and sqeaky or slightly fast forwarded. Does anyone know how to fix it? It's a wav file.

haha, well this ain't half bad. I love how smooth your animation goes. I bet if you worked hard on you your animations , it'll be great! keep it up!

It's simple, short and random. It's not half bad for a really short clip. I like how smooth the animation seems like.

you guys mind giving me some music to animate to for practice? any is nice as long as it still has the instrumental feel. Just a short sound clip, not much. I would really appreciate it :)) thanks!

First thing I noticed..he's going backwards xD When a character walks forward, the background should be going backwards (or am I wrong?). Like PBandJstudios said, the purple BG looks kinda weird. And the sway of the arms of a person walking regularly should be alternate to the feet. Anyways, keep up the good work.

At 5/20/13 11:31 PM, unconsidered wrote:

At 5/20/13 12:35 AM, djDurgyDurg wrote:

also please ignore my hundreds of layers. organization is an option, not a privelage. hope it helps

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Is this for Adobe Flash CS?

from the looks of it yeah, the guy's using macromedia flash

HEY i would love for you to be a part message me on skype so we can talk thanks

already messaged you, didn't you get my message?

At 5/16/13 01:45 PM, MortalPoet wrote: I agree with neverdead565, you should work on cleaning up your lines, but that's more craftsmanship rather than animation. Animation wise... there really isn't any... the characters just kinda stand there, and an arm moves occasionally. As my great animation teacher told me, "Don't just make your drawings move... make them feel." Try making a character next time you can play with facial expressions, and a body you can see that's not covered up by a cloak, and play around with story telling poses instead of boringly standing there.

Read and learn about animation! Animate with the principles of squash and stretch, spacing and timing, arcs, anticipation, flexibility, exaggeration, secondary and overlapping action, drawing as if you're sculpting, appeal... If you don't know what any of these words mean, LEARN THEM!!! Animate half-full flower sacks before you move on to animating people!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Animators-Survival-Kit-Revised-Edi tion/dp/086547897X

http://www.epichuynh.com/2011/01/animation-notes-12-principl es-of.html

I'm always willing to answer new animator's questions, so feel free to message me! :) Apologies for harshness, but I hope that's what you wanted to hear! ;D

Cheers,
Jesse

No need to apologize, this is precisely the kind of criticism that I want to hear xD Everything you said, including what your teacher said, was rather true. Most of the animation were just still images that were tweened.

I'm still quite a beginner and surely I've still got a lot to learn. I will try to make another animation soon with actual animation and I hope you'll be there to criticize :)) You were really helpful and thanks for the links!

At 5/16/13 03:50 AM, somespammer224 wrote: So apparently, 29 year old Rob Wilson was pulled over and they found a dangerous liquid in his car. So they stopped by and searched his apartment and found 17 explosive devices. They also found a handgun and some illegal substances. The explosives were mostly pipe bombs.

Source

What do you guys think?

I wonder what the explosives were for.

At 5/15/13 02:24 PM, StaticBlu wrote: Yes you are allowed to use the artist's song from the Audio Portal as long as you ask for permission and (of course) give credit. After all that's what the Portal was initially made for made for.

You can also go check out my audio library and see if there is anything there that you can use.

oh really? cool. thanks

also took a look at your lib, good stuff you got there, would like to hear more from you.

Hi, pretty new here and I'm not quite sure where to get background music for animations.( Nor am I even sure if I should bbe posting here...) Can I like, just get some random music from the net or from a movie and use it for my animations? Am I allowed to get music from NG audio, use it and credit the artist?

Really sorry If I'm posting in the wrong place.

At 5/14/13 11:28 PM, neverdead565 wrote: So I'm just going to be straightforward with this. It is good work but it is unfinished. I'm not an animator but even i can see this needs work. It's a little bit gritty drawing-wise and i have absolutely no idea what there even fighting about. I'm giving you a 4.5 out of 10

thanks for thee straightforward answer, really appreciate it. Will try to make animations that are actually finished and more understandable in the future!

I've been trying to improve my animating skills lately, I couldn't say if it's good or not. Whatever you have to say, just fire away, spare my feelings not 8D Gimme all the words you got http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/c25d9fe2c05df2dd30910f0f c91b43fe

At 5/14/13 10:39 PM, Multiweirdtv wrote: HEY
HEY YOU
YES YOU
I need some animators to help with my YouTube series called the world of the Internet or something like that. Basically every major website has a character who go on crazy adventures while in high school and I need animators to animate the characters I already have draw out. As I have no experice with animation but as animators you will be able to voice over the character as well. If you are interested please reply or message me on Skype at tornn96. For more information please message me or replay thank you so much.

I am interested in joining but I need your approval of my skill as I am not that good at animating xD http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/c25d9fe2c05df2dd30910f0f c91b43fespare me no emotion, just tell me directly if you approve or not ;)

At 5/14/13 10:43 AM, SoundarK wrote: I'm making a new animation called "News at five o clock-part 3"

the thing is that im a spanish speaker so the language of the animation is obviously spanish.

However, i'll upload it to NG with subtitles.

my question is Ã'¿ is it better to found some voice actors in english than the subtitles ? Ã'¿ isn't it some hard work?

thanks

Hmm, personally, I think it'd be a lot better if you only upload it with subtitles. Because yes, finding some good voice actors is hard.