what is the technique to xiao xiao

[rholding2000]

i really want o give animations that that a go at. Whats the technique?

[afrodog666]

IM NOT REALLY SURE BUT I THINK THAT THE ANIMATION IS JUST FRAME BY FRAME OR DONE ON ACTIONSCRIPT

[Amish]

NoNoNO!! The techniques which are ued in Xiao Xiao is called drawing. Also dont write all in caps. IT GETS VERY ANNOYING AND PEOPLE THINK YOUR SHOUTING. See

[HippoOfDoom]

Xiao Xiao is simply a background on 1 layer and then on the 2nd 3rd 4th layer there are sticks done by the line tool with a symbol for a head. Every frame you erase, except for the heads, and redraw the body using onion skin. After weeks you'll have a kick ass xiao xiao movie.

[Spectre]

At 2/17/04 08:13 PM, HippoOfDoom wrote: Xiao Xiao is simply a background on 1 layer and then on the 2nd 3rd 4th layer there are sticks done by the line tool with a symbol for a head. Every frame you erase, except for the heads, and redraw the body using onion skin. After weeks you'll have a kick ass xiao xiao movie.

whats an onion skin?

[Ragingflame99]

Well, I know one of the guys who worked on Xaio Xaio, he said that the blurry motion trail thingy was an add on that he got for shockwave. I have no clue what that means but thats what he said. He did the Boss fight in Xaio Xaio where its a guy in that warehouse with the rockandrooll solo playing the whole time :)

[elementseven]

onion skin shows the last frame (or frames) that were drawn; sort of like how a cartoonist compares one cel to another cel to make a fluid animation.

[Towlie2110]

i make my stick movies as I like them done with all objects except the body are control G'd and then i find the exact color and size of my lines and i make them. so i can curve. Also i hate when people make big heads and pencil thin sticks. make em purpostionit.

[Cheesin]

Make each of the body parts separate symbols. Mr. Zhu uses 2-3 torso parts for bending. Basically just rotate each body part for each frame, moving the axis to one side or the other. For the 3d look, like doing a roundhouse or something, copy the symbol that's going 3d and make it a little shorter each frame until it gets past the apex, then go back to normal length at the same rate.

[rholding2000]

thanks for the insight. The thing is i believe im good at flash but that animation simple kiks ass.

I was hoping to hear the frame by frame thing as if any of you have tried to motion tween a line to an arc, all it does is move without the arc or so it does with me, i tried shape tweening and that didnt do anything.

as i write this i go back to experiment. look at rik HHH (me) to see the style of animation i want to get away from ( i did those animations in about a day each)

[numbers]

Just make the fps about 24 and animate like you normally would, except using ovverated sticks.

[luckoftheirish]

you people are so just grabbing at straws, the guy FBF's alot more than you think

[Istari]

Unless the guy you know is Chinese, lives in Beijing, and has the last name Zhu, he's shitting you.

At 2/17/04 09:37 PM, Ragingflame99 wrote: Well, I know one of the guys who worked on Xaio Xaio, he said that the blurry motion trail thingy was an add on that he got for shockwave. I have no clue what that means but thats what he said. He did the Boss fight in Xaio Xaio where its a guy in that warehouse with the rockandrooll solo playing the whole time :)

[Chris-Pugh]

I think he use's a flip book before he animates it to get the perfect motion then he can start in neat when he comes to animate it. That's what I do and it works for me.

[da-pope]

If he used onion skining then it was almost 100% done frame by Frame