Flash Animation Test - Bon Bon

[GeekBrony 85]

For the past couple days, I have been learning about animation.

 

Today, I decided to do a test on what I could do with what I have learned.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iib0WrODqFg

 

What do you think?

 

Audio from Ponies with Hats.

[Gone Airbourne 21,977]

That was certainly awesome at best! How long have you been into doing animation? Keep at it because that was pretty cool for sure.

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Pretty good, you have a good sense of lip syncing, the only issue I saw was when Bon~Bon was saying "house." It seemed as though you put in a few extra frames which weren't really needed. 

 

Otherwise though, you're doing fine friend. Keep practicing and most importantly, experiment! 

 

P.S. For bonus credit get Bon~Bon to blink and animate the top of her mane.

Edited June 23, 2013 by Accellerant

[Rainbow Skywalker 642]

Nice use of the puppets, even if it is a bit static.  This does show a ton of potential, and like Accellerant said, keep on practicing.  Remember to use plenty of ease in and out, more hair bounce, and less smooth tweening.  For a first time, its pretty dang good.  Keep it up!

[GeekBrony 85]

That was certainly awesome at best! How long have you been into doing animation? Keep at it because that was pretty cool for sure.

Started getting into Flash when I was 7. I used Flash MX 2004. Learned a lot of Flash techniques from my dad. Gave up flash when I was 9-ish.

 

A couple days ago, I started again. It was an entirely new interface. I learned tutorials, then I figured out everything from there.

Pretty good, you have a good sense of lip syncing, the only issue I saw was when Bon~Bon was saying "house." It seemed as though you put in a few extra frames which weren't really needed. 

 

Otherwise though, you're doing fine friend. Keep practicing and most importantly, experiment! 

 

P.S. For bonus credit get Bon~Bon to blink and animate the top of her mane.

I could post an edited one, because I still have the .fla file!

 

I wish I could have animated the blinking/top of the mane Sadly, I couldn't find out how to do the blinking, and it was too much of a hassle to animate her top mane a little.

[Marcato 2,143]

I wish I could have animated the blinking/top of the mane Sadly, I couldn't find out how to do the blinking, and it was too much of a hassle to animate her top mane a little.

If you've watched the videos by FlamingoRich that I suggested to you, you should have heard of something called Single-Framing. Single-Framing is (excuse the pun) the single most brilliant invention of flash animation... Okay maybe that's exaggerated. If you double-click into the eye-lashes of any flash puppet, you should be able to find multiple different frames, the first six or so being for a blinking animation. (It takes six frames for a full cycle blink animation.) 

 

From there you can create a more-or-less randomized loop, to make the blinking inconsistent, making it appear more real and less systematic. Basically have them blink once, wait 10 frames, have them blink twice, wait 30 frames and have them blink again a couple times.

 

Either way, great progress! I won't repeat what others have said but you should definitely take those to heart as well.

 

EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot! When animation one part of the body, try animation the entire body just the slightest bit. This doesn't have to be done in any complexity, just a little bit of a skew motion tween for when her head leans forward for example. You should also focus on anatomy and see what parts should move in conjunction, such as the head and neck. (Trust me, anatomy is the most annoying part to learn, but it's a life saver, especially with legs!)

 

Here, this was one of my first animation tests. The mouth movement isn't very good, but I focused a lot on the motion and such. I can provide a .fla file for you to look closer at some of my works if you wish?

 

http://technologyflash.net/SWF/TiaTalkandTurnTest.swf

Edited June 23, 2013 by Silver Marcato

[GeekBrony 85]

If you've watched the videos by FlamingoRich that I suggested to you, you should have heard of something called Single-Framing. Single-Framing is (excuse the pun) the single most brilliant invention of flash animation... Okay maybe that's exaggerated. If you double-click into the eye-lashes of any flash puppet, you should be able to find multiple different frames, the first six or so being for a blinking animation. (It takes six frames for a full cycle blink animation.) 

 

From there you can create a more-or-less randomized loop, to make the blinking inconsistent, making it appear more real and less systematic. Basically have them blink once, wait 10 frames, have them blink twice, wait 30 frames and have them blink again a couple times.

 

Either way, great progress! I won't repeat what others have said but you should definitely take those to heart as well.

 

EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot! When animation one part of the body, try animation the entire body just the slightest bit. This doesn't have to be done in any complexity, just a little bit of a skew motion tween for when her head leans forward for example. You should also focus on anatomy and see what parts should move in conjunction, such as the head and neck. (Trust me, anatomy is the most annoying part to learn, but it's a life saver, especially with legs!)

 

Here, this was one of my first animation tests. The mouth movement isn't very good, but I focused a lot on the motion and such. I can provide a .fla file for you to look closer at some of my works if you wish?

 

http://technologyflash.net/SWF/TiaTalkandTurnTest.swf

Ah! That's how it works! I thought going into the edge of the eye would bring it up xD!

 

 

I have updated the video, it looks a lot better, take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qim1j4LRzlc