Stick men help

[Pauly]

Hey everyone.I wanna start small so i decided to start with stick men.I'm having alot of difficulty with that though.Can someone give me some tips on how to make them move,jump,fight,run? Thanks in advance!

[Zac-Donald]

first off
Frame by frame or tweened

for frame by fame, use the 2nd smallest brush, zoomed in at 200% or 400%

For tweened, draw a stick with lines, each part in a different layer, then change the line size to one you like, and start tweening

there a very basic outline

[Pauly]

So I should do each body part on a different layer?What's this do?Which is better tweening or Frame-by_Frame?

[Fische]

Though I really hate stick men, I'll try to help you out...
There's a variety of ways that you can make stick men move\:
1. Frame by frame - Drawing picture after picture in frame after frame to give the apperance of movement

OR

2. Motion Tweening - Letting flash put in all of the frames at a specific frame rate between one position of the stick man and another. You can learn about this in almost any basic flash tutorial on Newgrounds, or I think that even flash offers a basic tutorial under help in the program.

(Sorry it this wasn't any help)

Anyway, I think that expirementing with stick men is a good idea, but PLEASE do not submit a shitty flash movie to Newgrounds if it's just going to get blammed. You should work on your skills a little and submit something atleast almost worth watching.
Have fun!

[PBM]

At 6/22/06 10:03 AM, bel007 wrote: Hey everyone.I wanna start small so i decided to start with stick men.I'm having alot of difficulty with that though.Can someone give me some tips on how to make them move,jump,fight,run? Thanks in advance!

Stickmen movies can be a great type to start off with.
Me and my brother did this one if you want to check it out:
http://www.newground..m/portal/view/316525

Its all FBF, and while its not the xaio xaio type where they kung fu fight and all that jazz, its still a decent little movie and more well done than about 95% of the stick movies out there.
If you going to make a stick movie and put it in the portal, be sure its good. Watch it til you get sick of and and then ask yourself, will ALOT of other people like this? What makes it good? What makes it bad? Can I add more to this? Ask friends to watch it and be honest about how they feel about it.
Good luck and may the FBF be with you.

[Zac-Donald]

...that was a piece of crap

[PBM]

At 6/22/06 12:03 PM, Zac_Donald wrote: ...that was a piece of crap

So is your mother, but I talk about her like that on the boards.
At least I have the nerve/ambition to put a flash on NG, wheres yours champ?
Thought not.
Weak.

[themoviejoker]

Download this program.

You don't have to draw the stickmen. :)

[PBM]

At 6/22/06 12:17 PM, PBM wrote:

At 6/22/06 12:03 PM, Zac_Donald wrote: ...that was a piece of crap

So is your mother, but DO I talk about her like that on the boards.
At least I have the nerve/ambition to put a flash on NG, wheres yours champ?
Thought not.
Weak.

Sorry, should have been:
So is your mother, but DO I talk about her like that on the boards?
She was giving me head under my desk and scraped my balls with her chin hair, it threw me off.

[Zac-Donald]

At 6/22/06 12:17 PM, PBM wrote:

At 6/22/06 12:03 PM, Zac_Donald wrote: ...that was a piece of crap

So is your mother, but I talk about her like that on the boards.
At least I have the nerve/ambition to put a flash on NG, wheres yours champ?
Thought not.
Weak.

read my sig,
I dont want to be one of those people with 30+ crappy animations
Im currently working on a few backgrounds for a project of mine

[PBM]

At 6/22/06 12:37 PM, Zac_Donald wrote:

At 6/22/06 12:17 PM, PBM wrote:

At 6/22/06 12:03 PM, Zac_Donald wrote: ...that was a piece of crap

So is your mother, but I talk about her like that on the boards.
At least I have the nerve/ambition to put a flash on NG, wheres yours champ?
Thought not.
Weak.

read my sig,
I dont want to be one of those people with 30+ crappy animations
Im currently working on a few backgrounds for a project of mine

OK. My bad for shit talking you, that wasnt cool of me. I dont take criticism real well :(
Anyways, can you at least tell me what about it was "crappy"? I thought it was a pretty funny little movie even tho it was stick animation.
Oh well, guess we all have different tastes.
Good luck on your project, hope it turns out as good as you want it too.

[Zac-Donald]

sorry for just saying it was crap, I kinda hate it when people say
"look at my stickman animation!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and its not too good,

the animation wasn't much,
basically all it was a guy talking and some not so good animation,
it was more entertaining than most newbie-ish animation only because it wasn't some really crappy madness/Xiao rip off. The background was really bad looking though, and the sticks didn't look so good

[PBM]

Yeah, your probably right...lol.
It didnt get too bad a score and a few people really liked it, but I was basing it more off of the sick humor of it all rather than the look. The sticks were pretty shitty...lmao. The animation wasnt too terrible, but it could have been better.
Im working on a FBF series now (its not stick, dont worry :)) and Im using a drawing pad for it. Its coming out pretty decent.
Sorry again for being a twat. :)

[Zac-Donald]

Line FBF doesnt really ever look that good,
good luck with fullbody
Peace man

[chomp]

i dont see why people say use different layers for each limb i never do and find it easier and faster to just redraw them in the new position for fbf and i use tweening with them aswell look