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IiitsSmiggzYh
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help with my first animation 2008-08-12 06:07:46 Reply

hey, im completely new to animation, like... as new as can get lol, but i still wanna do it. so i have an idea, and im drawing out a story board as we speek, but i have a few questions to what i should do with it.

ok, first, does animation require any coding? because i seem to have trouble with it, i dont know why, but it doesnt work for me lol

also, should i have my speech in a speech bubble, or spoken? the characters i use have no faces, and are purposely badly drawn, so lip sinking (i dont use that word very often XD) isnt a problem for me lol.

also, im not sure on the name. its a funny animation (so i hope) about a stick guy who gets hunted down by a trash collector for throwing a can on the floor. he meets a girl in the bar, who he starts to hook up with, who then gets tacken hostage because they think its his partner of something (they being the collectors) and he has a violent battle which basically scares her away. at the time being, im calling it can (the first part is like a title sequence, where i have lots of objects with like, opening titles (produced by, directed by etc. etc.) and the last on is a shot of the dropped can, which has can written on it, because its a can, and because thats the name of the animation... LOL!!!

no but seriously tho, any help is muchos appreciated (again, dont type that one much) so ty in advance

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Response to help with my first animation 2008-08-12 06:20:48 Reply

Animation itself requires no coding, but getting a preloader, and play and reply buttons do, but you can bypass them easily by downloading a NG preloader.

I myself would do actual voices, as a silent flash isn't much fun to watch....you can advertise for voice actors here.

I'm not sure about the name...but I will say that you'd be better off doing odd little characters, not stickmen...Stick generally tend to get lower scores, as they are quite boring.....


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Response to help with my first animation 2008-08-12 06:25:48 Reply

well, i say stick, they are more like odd little characters. they have huge heads, trapezium bodies and stick arms and legs. all the girls have bows to show they are girls, so yh, odd little characters lol

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Response to help with my first animation 2008-08-12 06:44:06 Reply

i think im sorted as of the bubbles and stuff. i have found the preloader i want (lol) and my friend helped me to decide on using both bubbles and voice, so thats sorted. alls thats left now is to decide a name :) cheers to the guy who helped... and anyone else who may have posted during the writing of this post lol!