How do you animate detailed Art?

[faxmunky]

Hey,

I use flash alot and I'm quite good a programming and alright at animation, but only simple animation. Obviously as you can see, I can draw. But I cannot animate something like that... Do you have to do it frame by frame? I'm used to tweening everything in flash but I've only animated simple things. Things like the one I have below I cannot animate using tweens, that's just impossible. But if I did it frame by frame, it would be possible, but I would be drawing the same thing over and over and over again, just from different angles. Is that really how it is done? It would take me forever to do 1 minutes worth of animation.

Cheers,
Faxmunky

[Moltimert]

At 1/10/09 07:14 AM, faxmunky wrote: Hey,

I use flash alot and I'm quite good a programming and alright at animation, but only simple animation. Obviously as you can see, I can draw. But I cannot animate something like that... Do you have to do it frame by frame? I'm used to tweening everything in flash but I've only animated simple things. Things like the one I have below I cannot animate using tweens, that's just impossible. But if I did it frame by frame, it would be possible, but I would be drawing the same thing over and over and over again, just from different angles. Is that really how it is done? It would take me forever to do 1 minutes worth of animation.

Cheers,
Faxmunky

You could animating using tweens but you'd have to cut the picture into different pieces (hair, eyes, mouth etc.) But if you decide to do it fbf you should probably know that: 1. fps in anime is quite low(obviously to reduce the amount of work) and 2. the animators loop some parts a lot. Like when a guy walks, the animator would only animatio 1 or two steps and the loop it. Also the mouth movement and lip sync is anime is very minimal

[Slintas]

Frame by frame animation is supposed to take a long time. Maybe you want to tone down the details a bit so it's easier to animate.

[Moltimert]

At 1/10/09 07:14 AM, faxmunky wrote: Hey,

:blablabla it would be possible, but I would be drawing the same thing over and over and over again, just from different angles. Is that really how it is done? It would take me forever to do 1 minutes worth of animation.

2nd reply in a row
Usually if you're using fbf you wont do anything too complex or time consuming like spinning the camera around the character. Different angles are acceptaple tho
Also in fbf more complex movement like fighting etc. are usually drawn in less detail

Anime also uses lots of tiny bullet time/slo-mo scenes to add drama and to make fighting scenes seem longer with less work

I hope i've helped a little ;P

[Moltimert]

Another little note:
try using the line tool to draw simple things like curls of hair
and then animate them using shape tweens.
That way you avoid drawing the curl over and over again

[faxmunky]

Thanks for the comments guys...

And Multimert, your up to 99 posts haha.

[ReNaeNae]

...this should probably be in the flash forum. If I'm wrong in my thinking, [some other mod can] feel free to unlock this and delete my post. Thanks.