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whats the easiest way to animate a short cartoon?

i only know VERY basic flash, and always have trouble with it, i was thinking maybe doing something stop motion but im not quite sure

what would be the easiest way to make a small short animation?

how short?

60 seconds - 3 minutes, to much to make each frame in photoshop or something maybe, maybe not

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Originally posted by M73A
60 seconds - 3 minutes, to much to make each frame in photoshop or something maybe, maybe not

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Well flash is probably the easiest, it is made for it afterall. Stop motion probably isn't a good idea because you need to know what you're doing and be able to edit it all together properly, not to mention it can be very frustrating to get right/looking good

Not really much else you can do, depends what you're making, is it something you can get some people to act out for you and you just video it, maybe add some affects on after?

nah, i can't really see it being live action,

i've been playing with flash and it keeps giving me a massive headache
going to work through some tutorials in a bit to get me used to things

alternatively i can make a flash game, but i have no chance of that working lol

Yeah well to make a game you'd need to learn actionscript, and that would add a whole 'nother load to your project

Do you have an idea of what you actually want to do?

well the projects to do with two people researching, finding a link and making a conceptual piece using the link....

my link is disobediance. so im thinking a cartoon dog? lol. but im having trouble trying to animate anything i come up with. gonna try and story board some 'events'


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hm, how about making sprites? photoshop and the animation part of it...

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new question:
how would i go about making a dog thats sort of just sitting there, untill u press a button. then it does a related action... doesnt have to be overly complicated, just play a sequence and then return to where it was sitting before. is it hard?

Long url << should help =p

wow thanks! im just playing around with what that link is telling me, its exactely what i was looking for thanks

its still really hard! lol where do i put the code? hm
okay got it, now am playing about ^_^

blah cant get it to work, text doesnt show up and the dog doesnt move! hm time to mess about

you have to make keyframes with actionscript in. I haven't used flash in a few years so I can't remember exactly, here's a few links instead

How to insert actionscript
More about inserting
Basic actionscript

I mean I'm just googling and reading around, so just google anything you get stuck on [feel free to ask here if you can't find the answer though and I'll try to help]