Motion Tweening in Frame Animation (photoshop cs6)?

Hello, adobe community. I am new to the program Photoshop cs6 and just started using it this week. I have an animation project due tomorrow and noticed something while I was working. Is it possible to tween your drawings between frames in frame animation? I have seen it demonstrated a few times in the video timeline, but not in the frame animation option. I am using a video layer to create my project, so it is not separated into individual frames. If there is an option to do so, can someone please tell me how it's done? Thank you.

Yes you can. Create two frames, select both then choose tweening icon at the bottom of the animation panel. Left of the new icon looks like several sphere's. The more frames created, the smoother the tweening and the longer the animation.

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Hello,
I am an experienced animator who is new to using Flash. I need to know how to add a motion tween to an animation that I already made frame-by-frame. The animation will be of a fish blinking as it swims across the stage. I already created the frame animation of the fish blinking, but now I want to motion tween the whole animation (not just one frame) across the stage. However, I cannot figure out how to do this. Is there a way to create a simple animation that uses frame-by-frame animation and motion tweens simultaneously?

Unfortunately, Adobe let (character) animators down by not developing any of Flash's animation tools since v8 - quite the contrary, the latest incarnation, CC, removed a lot of (quite essential) animation functionality. No more bones (yikes!) or motion curves control.
A shame, because once Flash was the industry standard app for tv show animation. Not so anymore, though: Adobe dropped the ball in that regard, and mostly focuses on web/mobile apps and games development currently.
There are two options:
1) use animator-oriented alternatives like Toonboom and/or Anime Studio Pro (both of which export to flash movies);
2) download a bunch of plugins, and extend Flash so that its workflow becomes more animator friendly.
If you are just starting out, I would probably advise you to have at least a cursory look at the alternatives. However, having said all that, Flash can still be an enjoyable environment to animate in, IF you extend it a bit. Unfortunately some workflow may not be CC friendly anymore at this point due to the missing (almost essential) functionality compared to CS6 - you may prefer to work in CS6, depending.
These will help you extend Flash to become a bit more animator friendly:
http://cloudkid.com/tools
http://flash-powertools.com/
For example, Keyframe Caddy would solve your problem animating an eye by keyframing it in a symbol.
The guys at flash-powertools created a character animation workflow you may like, which addresses the deficiences of Flash for professional level character animation. They have some nice templates and example character files for you to examine.
A word of warning: character animation in Flash can become somewhat technical and daunting - in that case a tool like Anime Studio with excellent and easy to use bone tools and proper real(!) animation curves can be truly helpful. These can then be imported into Flash, and edited. Also, both AS and TB have a "real" virtual 3d camera of the scene that makes it easy to create parallax scrolling backgrounds and zoom in/out panning effects.
Anyway, this is how you would do it in Flash:
1) install Keyframe Caddy
2) draw your fish in a cutout-fashion (seperate eye).
3) convert all the fish elements to a graphic symbol (F8)
4) double-click the fish symbol
5) select the eye, and convert to a graphic symbol again
6) add different drawings for the eye blinking
7) return to the main stage
Now you can start animating the fish:
1) first animate the entire character moving
2) then after you finish the overall movement, move to the frame you wish to change the eye
3) double-click the fish character, and select the eye
4) in KeyFrame Caddy click "load thumbnails". This should load up all the different frames (drawings/states) for that graphic symbol and display them all in the KeyFrame Caddy window
5) now simply click on the required eye state, and KeyFrame Caddy will automatically create a keyframe for that state.
6) move the timeline scrubber to the next frame you wish to keyframe eye movement
7) click on the required eye state in the KeyFrame Caddy window.
...and so on! You may have to switch between the main scene and the fish symbol
Make certain the lengths of both timelines are identical, otherwise the eye animation will start to repeat if it is shorter than the main timeline. Inversely, if the main timeline is shorter than the eye animation, the eye animation will obviously not be able to run completely through.
One more thing: keep an eye out on the graphic symbol's looping in the properties - you may want to set it to either play once or looping (or even single frame).
For more info on graphic symbols, read this:
http://dev.tutsplus.com/articles/flashs-underrated-graphic-symbol--active-9964
Also check out those two sites' other tools. And check out the workflow on the electric Dreams website. Hope this helps a bit.

What is the best tutorial you've found explaining frame animation in CS6's timeline?

While I'd prefer it in book form, I'd be willing to fork over $ for a thorough video demo of frame animation in CS6's timeline. What's the best you've found?

My recomendation would be following something like the links below:
Suggestion 1
Suggestion 2
-Mandhir

How can save 600 frames in photoshop CS6

i have about 600 frames in timeline in photoshop cs6
i want to make Create Frame Animatiom
but photoshop not allow to save more 500 frames
what can i do?
thanks

Photoshop does have limits. When you run into one of them you can summit a request to Adobe to up the limit. I made such a request for Alpha channels I would be very happy with a limit like 500 instead of the Alpha channel limit of 53. Adobe seems to feel that 53 is a large number and can not see where user would want more, 500 must be a huge number then. My advice is to look for a small freeware program for doing timelaps sequences and use Photoshop to save your frame layers combos as frame file then use the freeware to make the animation. It does not make much scene to make an Animated gif with something like 600 frames. If you want a 600 frame animation on the web you would want to stream a video type file..

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I'm trying to do basic frame animation, but when I try to draw on a single frame, it always copies what I draw on the other frames. Is there a way to only draw on one frame at a time?
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Easiest way of converting motion tween to frame by frame.

In the old motion model it was as easy as highlighting all of the frames, converting them to keyframes then removing the tween. But I have no clue how to do it with the new motion model.

"For whatever reason it converts the tween to frame by frame."
Flash does this because Flash CS3 doesn't know anything about the new motion spans. So this is the way your animation can be displayed in an older version of Flash.
(And it's why we added the feature to right-click a frame and convert to frame-by-frame animation - same operation, but allows you to do it for a single span instead of all spans across the entire document).

Motion Tween without losing animation

I have made a character following a tutorial and I made a walk cycle out if it. The next step was to motion tween it but it told me "multiple objects are selected, you must convert to a symbol in order to tween them. Do you wan to convert and tween them? I click ok and although I was able to motion tween him, i lost my animation. So my question is how do I not lose the animation and keep the motion tween so I can animate him moving forward?
Flash 5of6 - YouTube

Here I have found a solution to the problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9955608#9955608

Please help - motion tween + single frame

ok , so i know how to do motion tween... and i know how to do single frame swap outs (like for a mouth) but i can't do both
here is how i have it set up,
full body
(double click that)
head
(double click that)
face
i have the head as single frame so i can use several mouths, but would also like the head to motion tween. is this possible?
-Jarrod
[email protected]
www.jgecek.blogspot.com

Awesome, thanks so much , i got it to work. I'm new at flash, so it's still confusing WHY that worked, but it's working none the less.
Now to make it LOOK good!
-Jarrod

Animating in photoshop cs6

The new timeline in photoshop cs6 is weird but I don't understand how I can use it for animating. I use photoshop for frame-by-frame animaiton (Not flash) and the new Timeline is confusing me. How do I use this new time line for frame-by-frame animation similar to the Animation Timeline in Cs5?

Just came across this topic, but it doesn't really help. At school we created an animated Xmas card using Photoshop CS4. I wanted to continue working on it at home using CS6 and indeed, no problem at all.
But then I decided to start all over, from the beginning, and that's where things didn't appear to work.
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To remove a background, will depend on the type of background, solid colors especially black or white are the easiest. As you can use the color range tool in the selection menu. For a complex background, you may need to use the selection tools, and depending on which is the simpler of the two you will need to select the foreground object or the background. If you choose the foreground you will need to invert your selection from the selection menu.
If the image is on the background layer (the layer says background and you see a lock symbol) you need to unlock that layer by dragging the lock symbol to the trashcan.
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Converted Symbol can't be Pasted into Keyframe: Motion Tweening

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Motion tween question in cs5

Hi,
I'm trying to create an animated movie clip button in AS2 using CS5. The button should fade in/out as the mouse moves over and away from the button.
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Rashinkar

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components on my stage, in separate layers that work fine when they
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Hi,
The Sample Calendar component download has been fixed for Update 7.
http://developer.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/codesamples/samplecomps/calendar.html
Also, the source is available and also is valid.
Please read the brief instructions in NOTES.txt
To build the source, you'll need to use ant
http://ant.apache.org
Then , in the build.xml file included in the zip, correct
the creator.home property setting to point to the installation directory of Creator.
hth
John

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