Moving drawn animations,

[Jamieneo66]

I wanted to know, considering i've been using flash for such a short time. That i've decided to have a go at a drawn animation, however i'm not sure how to move like arms and stuff, i mean do i make them seperate layers adjacent to the body or do i use actionscript or something ?
As i know i can't use motion tweens i don't think so yeah, would be great if you guys could advice.
What i mean to say is, i know how to use motion tweens but i don't think i could use them to animate seperate parts of the body could i ? or would i have to break apart the whole body have doing seperate pieces i.e arm adn stuff and then animate them FbF
again would be great if you guys could help :)

[El-Presidente]

Each layer and can have it's own motion tween, so you would have to have each body part on separate layers. Otherwise, if you did frame by frame, you could do it all on one frame and redraw the whole body, or separate the body parts and just do FBF on each one. They all work, depends on what you're going for.

[NpPro93]

i animate frame-by-frame, generally with each character on its own layer re-drawing all the body parts on each frame. if you want to keep the body parts separate, you can use grouping (ctrl-g) or symbols (f8) to keep them separate so that they don't mess each other up.

i would suggest animating frame-by-frame, though, because for every action (like raising your arm) the entire body moves. you need to take into account shoulders, torso, legs, and head for every action. its a lot easier to animate realisticly frame-by-frame, albeit time consuming.

[Jamieneo66]

Thanks for the advice, it does explain why it takes animators to animate drawn animations for so long, hell i can do a sprite flash in about a day >_< but drawn animation is another matter =\