URGENT HELP! TEACHER REQUIRED!

[HorrorshowMania 154]

hey everypony i need some serious help right now. I'm trying to follow an animation career, but i have... no clue how to animate... at all, I traced a little bit of my drawings there, but still have no idea how to animate it.

so if its possible... i need an animation teacher who knows adobe flash cs6, someone who is good and knows the ropes... Please i am begging you guys! please HELP!!!

[Gone for good 1,593]

Not to be mean and be all like; "your goals are futile and never will be met," but animating in flash takes quite a bit of work and I would assume takes even more work to teach over the internet. What I would recommend you do is this (I'm going to be doing the same thing, btw): go get yourself a copy of an Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Classroom in a Book thingamajig. Somebody told me that it's a pretty good alternative to actually spending thousands on college classes and is fairly straight forward. You can find it in any big bookstore. I'm going to be getting myself a copy soon, so yeah.

 

You can also do the evil way of getting things and pirate it, whi- *lordbababa was kidnapped at this very moment and was brutally beaten half to death by the owners of the book for even suggesting this*

Edited August 12, 2012 by Lord Bababa

[joeyh3 153]

Flash is not really something that you can learn overnight or in a week or anything - it takes tons of practice, learning, researching, and more practice. Flash is a very complex program, and animating is a very complicated and time consuming process.

 

Also, if you've only traced images, that's not really going to help you much at all.Traced images are static and unmovable, so you can't animate them. Instead, most animation is done via what's called either a "puppet" or a "paper doll", which is a model of a character or object broken up into many smaller pieces (upper leg, knee, lower leg, foot, etc), and they're all overlapped to create the appearance of a single object. the reason for doing this is that you can reposition and move individual body parts/elements each frame, making animation much faster and more efficient.

 

If you just want to do animation as a hobby, then I'd recommend getting a few books, finding tutorials online, finding example animations that you can download and take apart to see how they're done, etc. You probably won't be able to find one person who'll be willing to help you from start to finish because of the immerse amount of time it takes to learn animation, but there are plenty of communities, forums, and resources out there that can help you.

 

If you want to do animation as an actual career, you pretty much need to take classes. Studios need animators who've been trained in industry standard practices, are able to work with teams, and really know the ins-and-outs of the process. The best way to develop those skills and prove that you're capable of doing so is to have a formal education in animation. You'd be hard-pressed finding a job in animation without a degree.

 

(Disclaimer - I am a hobbyist artist who is currently in the process of learning Flash, but have yet to produce any postable animations)

[HorrorshowMania 154]

Flash is not really something that you can learn overnight or in a week or anything - it takes tons of practice, learning, researching, and more practice. Flash is a very complex program, and animating is a very complicated and time consuming process.

 

Also, if you've only traced images, that's not really going to help you much at all.Traced images are static and unmovable, so you can't animate them. Instead, most animation is done via what's called either a "puppet" or a "paper doll", which is a model of a character or object broken up into many smaller pieces (upper leg, knee, lower leg, foot, etc), and they're all overlapped to create the appearance of a single object. the reason for doing this is that you can reposition and move individual body parts/elements each frame, making animation much faster and more efficient.

 

If you just want to do animation as a hobby, then I'd recommend getting a few books, finding tutorials online, finding example animations that you can download and take apart to see how they're done, etc. You probably won't be able to find one person who'll be willing to help you from start to finish because of the immerse amount of time it takes to learn animation, but there are plenty of communities, forums, and resources out there that can help you.

 

If you want to do animation as an actual career, you pretty much need to take classes. Studios need animators who've been trained in industry standard practices, are able to work with teams, and really know the ins-and-outs of the process. The best way to develop those skills and prove that you're capable of doing so is to have a formal education in animation. You'd be hard-pressed finding a job in animation without a degree.

 

(Disclaimer - I am a hobbyist artist who is currently in the process of learning Flash, but have yet to produce any postable animations)

 

well no duh, i know its not going to be learned overnight, i am constantly practicing it, thank god i found Spazkidin3d tutorial videos, that and im going to be taking animation classes in a while, so yeah.. i havent learned how to animate just yet, but i am getting tracing and layering down well, so yeah

[Gone for good 1,593]

If you're gonna be taking classes soon, I wouldn't fret too much about whether or not you need to be a wizard at it. Unless you had to pass some entrance thing to get in, there will probably be people in there who are even more clueless than you.

[HorrorshowMania 154]

Lol I'm not as clueless as I was, dude I got a ton of basics down in the first few days, so I'm definitely not clueless anymore