If you're talking old school cartoons, then the Preston Blair books are worth having in your collection. You can get them on amazon.

At 9/23/09 07:00 PM, ZEGMAN wrote: How can I get it so that when I draw a line or anything, I dont have to keep breaking it apart.

Why does it keep becoming a drawing object, but in other flas files of mine it's not?

It sounds like the 'Object Drawing' mode is turned on. Turn it off in your Tools window

Aww brilliant!

Thank you so much Tom, I'll put it to good use. New flash coming in a few days =D

I know the feeling. I'm past half way but I still have a lot to do. Just like my halloween submission, it isn't going to end up how I originally wanted.

Cool, i've heard about this. May aswell gie it a try for me next project.

Cheers.

Nope because 2d has it's own little charm. It's just another style, not a lesser form of animation.

Leave 3d movies to the people of youtube.

At 12/15/08 08:36 PM, hentaicook wrote: Be more specific? Like I need to draw something the frame?

Yes, a blank keyframe is just a keyframe with nothing in it. Draw something and you'll see.

There needs to be something in it to make it a keyframe.

yeah like CrustySheet said.... the 'movable' object has been painted on its own cell, rather than as part of the background. Something I used to notice in the old looney tunes cartoons.

Congratulations Lazymuffin.

Dangers of Halloween was excellent.

Yeah mate, it's best learning to do it yourself. It's more work, but at the end of the day it's worth it, and you've learnt something new.

Have you considered rotascope?

Damn! I'd love a new tablet. My graphire is too small. Too bad I only have 1 newgrounds submission.

At 11/6/08 06:27 PM, Andrew-Kauervane wrote: Gotta say, I'm a little pissed about the judgement. But whatever.

Mate... you won 500 quid, what more do you want??

Congrats to the winners! Some fantastic stuff this year. I knew I had no chance, but it was fun taking part.

Great pumpkins, I think my favourite is the madness one. Though that Dirge one is still bloody impressive.

Just curious, my Halloween Flash hasn't been put in the collection, will it still be considered? Not that I expect to win or anything (no chance!), but it would be nice to know it was looked at.

At 11/3/08 07:00 PM, IcePyro wrote: http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/031108/5 7391_dataguard_test.php

just looking for some critisism again before i end my day.
this time, the issues i know about
- slight 1pixle jumps in my mc's
- some inconsistant filters

if you notice any other issues, or things that should/could be improved, please let me know :)

thanks in advance.

look good. Nice and simple, it's explained well enough through the imagery.

At 11/3/08 02:43 PM, nanitrox wrote: 1 i need adobe flash cs2 Because the adobe flash cs3 is expired and don't create circles

before CS3, it was Flash 8.... and you have to buy your copy if they've expired, sorry.

At 10/28/08 01:41 PM, tcc85811 wrote: Since my swf size is over 2.5mb and i'm not even 10% done with my game, i'm copying every frame of every animation and converting everything to jpg images which i will import and recompile into their respective animations.

Is this the right thing to do, or is there a better way to go about it?

No way. Jpegs will not help. Use flash's drawing tools. When drawing in flash, you can optimize anything you've drawn.

In the menu, go to Modify > Shape > now either choose 'Smooth' or 'Optimize' to smooth out your drawings, they'll take up less memory.

There's a few submissions today with unusually low scores. Don't let it get you down. Give yourself a week or two then start thinking about your next project.

At 10/13/08 02:34 PM, NateFinn wrote: Ok so heres the problem, I have like a 14 second video at 12 f.p.s. which I am not even close to finishing. At a certain part of my animation gets really choppy at the end with a motion and shape tween. These tweens are on different layers, so what the hell is the problem. Heres the link so you can watch it: http://www.zshare.net/flash/20490111918f 6ead/
Can you just tell me whats up so I can fix it.

I'd guess the problem is the background with all those squares and circles. Tweening them all is a bit too much for flash, especially while there's a shape tween going on aswell. You could either re draw the background, with something not so busy graphically, or use a jpegged version of the background you have.

Also, try optimizing your drawings (Modify>Shape>Optimize) It helps reduce memory and makes your drawings look much smoother.

btw you have a very David Firth style.

My halloween short i'm hoping will be finished on time!

Look up the Wacom tablets. They have a few decent affordable ones.

I always prefer the brush tool. I think the line tool can make a drawing a bit dull and lifeless (just my opinion) I only use the line tool to work out perspectives n stuff.

At 10/7/08 07:54 PM, junipe wrote: is there any way to make lip stncing easier? becuase i think of it as going to each frame of the animation and getting a movie clip of a mouth out of my library and doing that again and again and again to every frame. is there any easier way to do it? because lip syncing takes days by itself. thanks newgrounds!

I assume your dragging the mouths from the library each time?

How about putting all of the mouth shapes in 1 symbol (a graphic, not movie clip), and put each mouth shape in a frame each. Then in the properties window, you can select which mouth piece you want by picking the appropriate frame number. (this only works with Graphic Symbols)

Hope I make sense, still quite time consuming but it saves dragging the mouths over every time and trying to position them.

At 10/2/08 10:22 AM, N0xa wrote: I'm new to flash and im just playing around with tweening so i can get the hang of it, I put something extremely basic together but i'm getting some lag from the tween, Is there something i can do to stop/reduce the lag?

Thanks :)

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/3108/550 78_NoxaFLASH.php

I don't think it's the blur causing it. I usually get leg like that if I forget to break apart the text. (ctrl B twice)

Saves importing horribly jpeg'd blurs

At 9/15/08 11:57 PM, SovietKitten wrote: Not trying to get hits or anything, but I was wondering what you guys think of my template? I made it on flash, it took me about 8 hours to make. I'm trying to go with a video gamey/newgrounds type thing, and maybe some 8bit stuff.

Any tips, suggestions? rants?

I like the simplicity. A few suggestions however...

Pick a colour scheme. You have Red, Green, Blue and Grey. Not exactly a nice mix of colours.

I dont like the Drawn look of the text. I can see what your trying to do. Have another go. Looks more like you've hurried it. How about making your own font?

Keep it simple. Like the way it is. Don't over clutter the pages with junk (you havent done that anyway so well done)

Keep playing around with it, spend more than 8 hours on it. I did about 3 or 4 different versions of my site before I found one I liked.

At 9/15/08 11:36 PM, invisiblecake wrote: Okay I have something I want to submit... It's a .mov file and I want to import it into flash and put a NG preloader on it and export as .swf. I've never used flash before and I'm lazy so I'll just ask, I totally don't know what I'm doing. So how do I do this?

Btw it's a time lapse/stop motion video, so don't flame me for wanting to upload a video instead of a flash animation.

May vary in different versions of Flash, but for Flash 8 you do...

File > Import > Import Video

Select the Video file you wanna use. Click Next.

Select the option to 'Embed' the video into the flash file. Click continue etc then it should import.

Hope that helps

There's a basic quiz template that comes with flash........

It's called the 'Scribble Cell' effect.

Adam Philips has a tutorial on his blog on how to do it in Flash

Here you go

Give it a few days, they're not hard to get used to. Just out of curiousity, what kind of tablet is it?