coloring fbf animation

[Archangel-X]

im interested to know if there's any tricks to make coloring a fbf animation less of a huge chore, right now im just making a layer behind my line art animation and coloring that, but its a huge hassle. So anyone got any tips to make the process quicker?

[Magical-Zorse]

I think there's an "edit multiple frames" button near the onion skinning button, but I've never tried using it. Maybe that will work

[flaminggranny]

I wouldn't use edit multiple frames for a frame by frame animation. My suggestion is to hammer through it. That way, your animation quality will always be better than if you used a shortcut.

[fluffkomix]

At 3/11/09 07:34 PM, Archangel-X wrote: im interested to know if there's any tricks to make coloring a fbf animation less of a huge chore, right now im just making a layer behind my line art animation and coloring that, but its a huge hassle. So anyone got any tips to make the process quicker?

a frame by frame with squiggly lines that don't have anything to do with anything?

that sounds familiar

[Ansel]

if you're already doing all your coloring on another layer, it might save time to copy all your fbf linework onto that layer, fill with paintbucket, and then do more detailed work with the brush. Saves a lot of tedious space-filling.

[SlightlyToasted]

At 3/11/09 07:40 PM, flaminggranny wrote: I wouldn't use edit multiple frames for a frame by frame animation. My suggestion is to hammer through it. That way, your animation quality will always be better than if you used a shortcut.

I agree. If you want to make something, might as well make it quality.

[Archangel-X]

well the prob i ran into among other things is this is my 4th ever flash and i decided to do the whole thing fbf. Its ambitious to say the least and i may have bitten more of than i can chew so to speak in terms of the workload, and after animating everything twice (1 stick animation then the actual anim in a separate layer) i tried to start coloring and wow its gonna be 10x as hard to color this thing as it was to animate it. I thought there might be some trick to it cause wow its taking the will to live out of me to think that i have to color this now....nevermind that keeping the colors consistent from frame to frame is proving tricky. I guess Beavis (or was it butthead?) said it best...anemotion sux....

[SlightlyToasted]

lol... I dunno what else to say... Maybe black and white will work out for ya?
I dont know.
But maybe when you select the fill tool, make it fill in big gaps.. Good luck.