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Motion Tweens

There's an interview in the NG Mag with pyropimp, the guy who made Star Wars Gangsta Rap.

"What animation techniques do you most commonly use in your flashes?

Well, technically, I guess it would primarily be shape and motion tweening ;) Layers and layers of motion/shape tweens. You would not believe how many layers I have, in symbols, scenes, and the main time-line. I wish I knew enough classical animation to be able to do frame-by-frame. "

This guy is an awesome flash artist and he mainly uses motion and shape tweens. So I guess, that just says that shape tweens can be very useful and look very realistic and amazing if done correctly.

On The Lot

Have anyone seen this show? It's a show on Fox, about a group of directors picked out of favorite submissions and they are competiting for a role to be a director for Dreamworks Studios. They get 1,000,000 to make their first movie for the company.

It's a pretty good show. I've been tuned it. The last airing was Today at 9:25pm til 10 but thats it. The pilot episode aired Tuesday I think. :] There is going to be another episode on Monday from 8-10 [ a two hour episode ]

If you guys haven't checked it out, I recommend it. It may be a Fox Reality thingy but I still find it interesting.

At 5/24/07 10:40 PM, Rudy wrote: On The Lot

Have anyone seen this show? .....

I haven't watched, mainly because I haven't been able to catch it. I'll try to watch it tonight :)

SHAPE TWEENS

This movie was done mostly with shape tweens and looks really nice. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/289848

Venice Beach

Just a quick side note for anyone interested - Yahoo's got a feature on the famous graffiti walls of Venice in Cali. Worth a watch/read, it's pretty interesting to see some vet's take on the current state of things down there - how even their work gets sprayed over before it even has time to dry just because everyone wants to get up on a Venice wall.

At 5/24/07 10:54 PM, Hamslice wrote: SHAPE TWEENS

This movie was done mostly with shape tweens and looks really nice. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/289848

WOW!!! Thats incredible!!! I wonder how he tweens the faces so smoothly?

At 5/24/07 10:34 PM, Senti wrote:

At 5/24/07 10:17 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote:
It's rated "mature" so maybe 3 people who read this thread can look at it. ;)

Also, I can nearly promise you that NO ONE actually pays attention to the warnings and suitable ratings on flashes.

Haha, yeah. Of course I know no one pays attention to the warnings, these kids were weaned on Goatse and Jackass. That's why I put the winky face there. =D

At 5/24/07 10:54 PM, Hamslice wrote: SHAPE TWEENS

This movie was done mostly with shape tweens and looks really nice. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/289848

Man, that was trippy. The colours and the smoothness and the shape tweens were wicked.
But I loved the camera movement the most; the zooms and the skewing and stuff was cool.

Flash Magic Wand Tool

Does anyone know how this works???

At 5/24/07 11:41 PM, Nuggs wrote: Flash Magic Wand Tool

Does anyone know how this works???

Yeah, you can use it to draw any shape you want around vector art in Flash and it will make the shape inside what you drew higlightable for usage.

Flash Magic Wand Tool

At 5/24/07 11:41 PM, Nuggs wrote: Does anyone know how this works???

Yes, it's a way to select colour out of vector art, just like the wand tool in Fireworks and Photoshop, but only vector art... or maybe with images too... It's good if you need to cut out part of an image that you traced bitmapped in Flash... the only time I do trace bitmap if its something to do with a site and I have the image of something to do with that site that needs to be in the Flash.

Basically, it selects colour out of something in Flash, you can set the tolerance, the lower the tolerance the lower it will pick up the color (meaning if you pick white, if the tolerance is set very low it will only get something that is that exact same colour, if tolerance is high it will pick up a lot, anything related to the colour you clicked on).

I use the wand tool on broken bitmaps (Like ctrl+B) thats about all I use it for though.

Shape Tweens

If shape tweens worked perfectly then animation would be easy...

Mario kart DS friend codes
Does anyone here own mario kart ds, if so whats your friend code so i can add you :) We can have a reg race lolol

At 5/25/07 04:54 AM, fuzz wrote: Mario kart DS friend codes
Does anyone here own mario kart ds, if so whats your friend code so i can add you :) We can have a reg race lolol

talking of ds, im a dragonball z whore and bought supersonic warriors 2 on ds and it kicks more ass then a ninja on speed

i wanna buy mario kart again since i lost my last copy somewhere in a hotel room. it was a class game

At 5/24/07 11:09 PM, ConAir wrote: Venice Beach

Just a quick side note for anyone interested - Yahoo's got a feature on the famous graffiti walls of Venice in Cali. Worth a watch/read, it's pretty interesting to see some vet's take on the current state of things down there - how even their work gets sprayed over before it even has time to dry just because everyone wants to get up on a Venice wall.

Definitely going to read/watch that later but I gotta go to school now :\
Thanks!

At 5/25/07 04:54 AM, fuzz wrote: Mario kart DS friend codes
Does anyone here own mario kart ds, if so whats your friend code so i can add you :) We can have a reg race lolol

My code is "244874-959066". I love Mario Kart DS, it is deffinitly one of the absolutely must buys for the DS. I want to get Pokemon Pearl now, but then I also want Guitar Hero 2 or something...

Shape Tween

Well the problem I find with making good shape tweens, is that it takes time with practise and learning how to set them up, but rather then spending that time I would just frame by frame it, unless I am changing a circle into a sqaure, which that'd be one crappy animation.

At 5/25/07 07:48 AM, pixelz wrote:

At 5/25/07 04:54 AM, fuzz wrote: Mario kart DS friend codes
Does anyone here own mario kart ds, if so whats your friend code so i can add you :) We can have a reg race lolol

My code is "244874-959066". I love Mario Kart DS, it is deffinitly one of the absolutely must

added you, play now? my ds is low on power so it might cut out...

At 5/25/07 03:45 AM, crushy wrote: Shape Tweens

If shape tweens worked perfectly then animation would be easy...

Define "Worked perfectly"?

wait, you need my friend code
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At 5/25/07 08:01 AM, Inglor wrote:

At 5/25/07 03:45 AM, crushy wrote: Shape Tweens

If shape tweens worked perfectly then animation would be easy...

Define "Worked perfectly"?

understood the difference between outlines and fills, independent shapes that dont differ in shape/size.etc

At 5/25/07 08:07 AM, crushy wrote:

At 5/25/07 08:01 AM, Inglor wrote:

At 5/25/07 03:45 AM, crushy wrote: Shape Tweens

If shape tweens worked perfectly then animation would be easy...

Define "Worked perfectly"?

understood the difference between outlines and fills, independent shapes that dont differ in shape/size.etc

I agree... shape hints are shit also.. flash needs to like rework the algorythms or logic for that shit... ive never gone back to using that because you literally need 20 billion shape hints for flash to know how you want it to shape tween... its not even worth the effort youd take less time and better result fbfing it.

It is Senior Skip Day today. I have to go get drunked.

Bye.

Mario Kart Friend Code
I'll join in on this.
214836
474527

Towel Day
Also, it's towel day, bitches. This IS relevant to Flash because I made an animation about it last year... which was completely ignored...

At 5/25/07 08:58 AM, edit-undo wrote: Mario Kart Friend Code
I'll join in on this.
214836
474527

Ok if i add you, you have to add me. Ok?

At 5/25/07 08:59 AM, fuzz wrote:

At 5/25/07 08:58 AM, edit-undo wrote: Mario Kart Friend Code
I'll join in on this.
214836
474527

Ok if i add you, you have to add me. Ok?

Done and done. I'm rarely on though... but I'll go on now just for you.

Mercenaryitis
Man, I remember two, three years ago that Flash forums would pool together to do Flash stuff and sigs and each other's work for free without so much as a concern for things like reimbursement.

Now it seems like everyone's suffering from the need to be paid for every little scrap of work they do. I mean, it's fine to use that "Pay me for my time" excuse against little
nooblets demanding work (and yes, it's an excuse. Don't lie to yourselves and say you'd take those jobs even if they offered you the cash you asked for it), but when you use it on Regs or people who know what they're talking about or have a genuinely GOOD idea then I think the condition's too far gone.

What is it with cash payment nowadays anyway? Maybe it's just me speaking from the lofty position of being paid to do Flash work, but surely everyone's treating this far too seriously for something they'd consider a hobby that they're just pissing about with for fun?

Mind you, three years ago there wasn't an Armor Games...

Better things to do

For the most part there's been plenty of non-pay collaborations. The only reason more people are asking for money now is because they realize they can. I use flash professionally and I get paid for it. If you want to infringe on the time I could be using to work on my real job, then I'd expect some sort of payment. Whether the person is a reg or not. Now, if I get together with someone who has similar ideas then I'm not gonna complain, but to actually 'work' on a project for/with someone, then thats considered a side job.

You can't blame people for trying to get theirs.

Shape Tweens

I havent used shape tweens since October of 2006. They suck ass, but that movie from page 490 was awesome.

I animate using motion tweens mostly.

Re: Mario Kart Friend Codes
I don't have a DS :(

360 Gamertags anyone?