African:

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

http://smg.photobuck..t=african_Scene2.swf

http://smg.photobuck..;current=african.swf

So, I got bored one day and I decided I'd make some flash animations. These are honestly my first *real* flash animations. I drew this character in class, and decided I'd animate him. It'd be super duper if some one could give me a story or something that I could animate. I'm planning on starting to make flash animations because I thought these turned out pretty good. I'd like to see what you guys thaing'k before I start on anything serious.

[Dusty-Gorilla]

The animation itself is great!

[Blaze]

super duper

rofl. That gives you cool points!! Congrats

Anyways, the animation in the first is KICKASS. =D Great job.

I dont really have a story though. :) Just thought id give you a headsup on your talent.

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

Wow, I didn't expect to get replies so soon! Uh, thanks guys, keep the \m/ coming.

[Jibby]

That's actually alot better than most people can do.

[Ruzhyo]

Thats some awsome FBF, dood.

[Cema]

Very good first one, disliked the second one. Maybe he's a slave who breaks from a ship's jail and has to free the others.

[Ani-Money]

Good fbf, but maybe make the strokes a little bigger, like say 3-ish?

[pt9-9]

Excellent animation my friend! I have yet to master the art of rotation in two dimenional fields :(

[RANTish]

dude im feelin you could get a pretty creepy story outta this guy, like david firth creepy, excited to see sumthin from u dude.

[Coaly]

At 6/19/06 10:47 PM, United_Assault wrote: Maybe he's a slave

maybe you are a stereotypical bastard...maybe

jk<3

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

I don't know if I should make a comedy, or a serious story with this guy, he suis both.

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

At 6/19/06 11:06 PM, RANTish wrote: dude im feelin you could get a pretty creepy story outta this guy, like david firth creepy, excited to see sumthin from u dude.

David Firth is one of my favorite flash animators. I'll try to animate something like his stuff one of these days.

[Storm]

I like the first one.

Way to go!

[Esach]

I say a comedy, he looks like he'd be great for some random shit in a comedy lol... just how you make him pop outa nowhere, that'd be fuckin hilarious, great FBF animation too, how longd you spend on those?

[shazwoogle]

looks awsome :D

[PaperBagMask]

you are the most promising beginner ive seen if those are your first flashes=D

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

I use a tablet, I'll post up more animations later.

[MARINO]

I'd like to see some old fashioned movies from you.... it seems like your character could probably be in a western or "Little House on the Prarie" type movie.

[Dark-Spark]

-constructive criticism alert. don't call me an ass-
dude his body morphs during the animation, like his arm is thick and full in one of the main frames and it morphs into this skinnier bumpy arm. it is good for a first 'real' animation though. just work on the main keyframes so the in-betweening frames don't give it a morph feel but rather a human-like movement.

boobs

[elmicah]

hot shit, homes.

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

At 6/20/06 05:19 PM, Dark_Spark wrote: -constructive criticism alert. don't call me an ass-
dude his body morphs during the animation, like his arm is thick and full in one of the main frames and it morphs into this skinnier bumpy arm. it is good for a first 'real' animation though. just work on the main keyframes so the in-betweening frames don't give it a morph feel but rather a human-like movement.

boobs

Yeah, that's the hardest thing to do in my opinion. By the middle of the animation, I noticed that his arm was changing it's shape, so I tried to keep it the same. I can post some of the frames, if you guys would like to see.

[Dark-Spark]

At 6/20/06 05:43 PM, LiftYourSkinnyFists wrote:

Yeah, that's the hardest thing to do in my opinion. By the middle of the animation, I noticed that his arm was changing it's shape, so I tried to keep it the same. I can post some of the frames, if you guys would like to see.

we can just right click> play> forward/back.
just keep drawing and don't give in to motion tweening