Reviews for FBF - The shakes

[MetalDart]

Great tutorial

To professionals, it may be common knowledge, but to amateurs, this is an amazing flash. I have tried flash before and know the troubling matters with it, but this flash really helps. If you forget everything you know about flash and watch this, it is an incredible walkhrough. The graphics show rights and wrongs in a flash, and really help get the ideas out there. The style is great, and how you use well drawn out figures and show how the different mechanics can influence the feel of the flash. The background music was very nice to have and did not get repetitive. No violence, not much humor, and the interactivity was mostly page flipping. Overall, a great walkthrough for animators of all ages, and I'm putting this in my favorites to look at when I get flash. Responses highly appreciated.
Grade: A-

Astropuff responds:

Thanks for the long lengthy detailed review.

One of the reasons I tried to make the tutorial more enjoyable is because I'm the one that has to look at it 50 times over while working on it, so I might as well make sure I can stomach it myself. The problems with a lot of tutorials I see is that they contain a few graphics, then about a paragraph of text. I have the attention span of a 5 year old, so I need to have visual stimulation or else I will just wander off.

[Electronix]

Excellent Tutorial

Well done,
this is the perfect example of how a tutorial should run; smooth, fluent and educational (with a little humour from time to time)

you get a 5 from me. and well done for the great animation skills (I have learned alot ;P)

[KuyaSeth]

@ Elephantom

While I can certainly see how the entire body moving would make the entirety of the animation a little more...unified, I suppose, I think the idea was that the average of people who try to do that with an entire animation tend to warp the final product so much that even though everything was FBF'd, it looks like a melting pile of solid, condensed poop. Normally, an FBF animation would have the entire body doing something anyways, correct? Something along the lines of the "++" series, i.e. Rush, that town thing...I forgot the guy's name, but he is a damn good FBF'er.

As for the actual tutorial, It's very nice. The music, while not applying to anything specifically, was nice to just listen to, and that was enough to make me watch it over and over again. Not just that, but the actual tutorial was nice and simple as well, not taking too many complicated explanations, with a fairly "simple" example. I wish you could've added a button however, that would show each picture, frame by frame every time it was pushed, just so we could get an idea of your own timing. The Beedril (If that's it's name, I lost track of Pokemon for a while lolz) moved quite erratically, as is it's nature, and I would've liked to have been able to freeze it at certain junctions to see exactly what I'm seeing.

Good job though, and I certainly liked your work in the anime collab.

Astropuff responds:

You're right, animating the entire body is just more interesting to look at then a single moving object. I just thought it would be easier to explain the problem from a simple point of view, then it would be obvious enough of how to apply it to the rest of the body. I think animation is something you learn from drawing/art and just mere practice. Like vinnie++, he probably practices all the time. If you browse his site you can see some crazy gif shit he has created. I really suggest you find those gifs--

[TheSkaven]

Very helpful! :D

One question: what was the fps rate for this flash?

Astropuff responds:

I pretty much do everything at 24 FPS. And sometimes I will double-triple space frames out when it comes to animating.

[ScoobyGanjaDoo]

Decent Animation Tutorial.

Nice tutorial there, Astro. Unlike most of the Macromedia flash tutorials here on Newgrounds, this one was well put togheter with well-explained information, and nice, decent-looking drawn animation and drawings. You included what you shouldn't do as a FBF short animation, and what you should've done. All in simple steps!

As a flash animator myself, I found this very helpful for people who need help with their frame by frame animating skills. Even I need some help with the frame by frame animation, since I've had only about a year with animating experience, and not a lot of frame by frame animation doing.

You also included some nice, clear and crisp music in this tutorial. Nothing loud, as it was very relaxing to the ears.

Good work. I hope to see more decent, high quality frame by frame animation tutorials such as this.