Flash Skills

[MonkeyGenius]

Hey guys i've got a great idea i reckon we should all post ideas and techniques for animating on this post and share the skills, probally raise some of the quality of work for some users, and help me alot.

[Androu1]

Just a little tip that I think is pretty good,DON'T use MOTION Tweening for EVERYTHING.
If you FBF thing,it will look so much neater,plus,you have more control over it.

[Varnik]

I find scripting movement very nice and smooth, but this is for games ofcourse.

Or in movieclips like rotating lights or round objects, scripting their rotation is extremely better than motion tweening them.

[Nellio]

Ahh, I love FBF animation.

My tip? Use backgrounds. Nobody seems to want to make backgrounds anymore, and they add depth and style to an animation that would otherwise be lacking.

Also, use the properties editor to fix the quality/rate of your sounds to lower your filesize. The default settings for exporting sounds are pretty crappy, and with a little messing around, you can keep the same quality of sound but take a good chunk of kilobites out of the size.

[Androu1]

At 9/28/07 05:29 PM, Nellio wrote: My tip? Use backgrounds.

I'm with you! A animation without backgrounds is a animation without life.

[lautan]

I don't animate but use graphics not movieclips. Because movieclips take up more information then graphics.

[DemonOfNightmar]

thats real but there are things that you cant do with graph but you can with movie clip...

Using the brush tool when you start animating is way easier then using any other kind of tools exept when your were good at drawing before animating!... else, its easier to use line or pencil tool!

[joshy24]

Actually, you can mix your animations with coding. Like say your making a clip drop from where your at.
Using...

onClipEvent (load) {
	speed = 0;
	grav = 3;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	this._y += speed;
	speed = speed+grav;
}

would make it drop a lot more smoother and accurately.

[ZeeAk]

At 9/28/07 04:36 PM, MonkeyGenius wrote: Hey guys i've got a great idea i reckon we should all post ideas and techniques for animating on this post and share the skills, probally raise some of the quality of work for some users, and help me alot.

That's what basically the WHOLE Flash forum is about.

Or, should be about.

[BlackmarketKraig]

At 9/28/07 09:36 PM, Dr34m3r wrote:
That's what basically the WHOLE Flash forum is about.

Or, should be about.

Kinda... but there are a lot more threads on AS and collabs then there are about animation. But yes, this thread is redundant. If you make a cool discovery about animating with Flash, I think you could share it with it's own thread and maybe throw a link to Animation MAIN.