Frame by Frame Animation?

[jupdyke]

I am looking for some advice. I am thinking of trying my hand as making a flash animation. I have read through the learn flash section, and understand the motion tween. But I think some people who upload to new grounds use Frame by Frame animation. I was wondering, if anyone could tell me the pros, cons, and basicly how you go about doing Frame By Frame. I know you have to draw each frame, but more specificly how do you do it in flash. Thanks all!

[Jigganis]

Well, i can help some. First off, try searching the flash board. Dont forget, if you need help, do that first. FBF is hard to do. I cant even do it very well myself! There's one very useful tool to use for this however; thats the onion skin tool. The onion skin is on the bottom of the timeline bar in flash, to the right of the red frame centering button. Its like 2 overlapping little white blocks, and to the right of that are more overlapping blocks that are options for the onion skin thing. to make an FBF look good, you'll have to use a good many frames. FBF is especially good to make something look like its turning around. Try to make the next frame look just a little different than the last one, making it look more like its doing something.

[vonDark]

There isn't a simple way to do frame by frame, you can just learn it after a lot of practise.

Here's a site that might help you some though:
http://www.freetoon.com/prestonblair/intro/main.html

[ch0pst1cks]

FBF if a real complicated process, it gives the flash a more interesting look. I would suggest looking at Sqeezy's stuff and try making something like that.