Flash character animation help

Greetings,
I have a character animation that involves a lot of walking, I currently have the feet and upper body fully animated, I was wondering if there was a simple way to get the upper and lower legs to track the feet and hips.
I animated the feet and upper body by creating keyframes and manually positioning each symbol at every keyframe, I was just hoping there was a simple solution for the legs rather then having to manually position each one at each keyframe.

Hi,
If you want to get started with the flash animation make sure to start learning how to use all the image editing tools that may come handy with your animation. You animation doesn't seem that complicated but it will take quite some time to gather all the symbols and images(cartoons).
Here is a website that offers some tips regarding basic flash animations:
http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp
Look into these three main guides(it will give you a better understanding on what to do with your objects and actions)
Motion Tween
Motion Guide
Bouncing Effect
Hope this helps you,
Vicente Tulliano

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I am creating a CBT for E-Learning. In the CBT we have used
animated character, voice over, play and pause option.
By default play button is selected, when user click on the
pause button it will pause the character movement like (body
movement, eye-popping and lips movement) and as well as voice over.
Click on play button it start the all the movement from where he
paused it.
I have faced following problem while doing the same:
1) For Play and Pause option, I have made the character
animation in flash timeline, and it is very time consuming to do
the lips movement in timeline. If I put the lips in a movieclip
then, clicking on Pause button it will not Stop.
Now I need the solution how to reduce the time to do the same
character animation in flash timeline with Play and Pause button.
Any idea.....! Pl revert...
Regards
Sonum

If I understand you have done the animation already, in a
separate movieClip
but can't get it to pause... If that is the case just add the
code to your
pause button to affect more than one clip. Something like:
pauseButton.onRelease = function(){
mainCharacter.stop();
mainCharacter.lips.stop();
You can have your buttons affect as many clips as you need...
you could even
use an array to hold clip references and use that in both a
play and pause
button:
var myChar = [mainCharacter, mainCharacter.lips,
mainCharacter.eyes];
function animateChar(thePlayState:Boolean){
for(var i = 0; i < myChar.length; i++){
if(thePlayState){
myChar
.play();
}else{
myChar.stop();
playButton.onRelease = function(){
animate(true);
pauseButton.onRelease = function(){
animate(false);
HTH
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Hey everyone,
I just registered here and I'm looking for some specific help. I am looking to make a short, 30 seconds to 1 minute animation.
What I want is an animation of a side view of a vehicle driving, with a scrolling/repeating background. (The van will be passing by houses and buildings in the neighboorhood) The vehicle will be driving around for about 30 seconds and encountering different obstacles every few seconds. (mailboxes, cats, etc.) After this it will cut to a flashy outro which I can handle in After FX. However, I am just beginning with flash and I really have no idea where to start on this project. If someone could make a short tutorial or point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
bdkaat

Hi,
If you want to get started with the flash animation make sure to start learning how to use all the image editing tools that may come handy with your animation. You animation doesn't seem that complicated but it will take quite some time to gather all the symbols and images(cartoons).
Here is a website that offers some tips regarding basic flash animations:
http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp
Look into these three main guides(it will give you a better understanding on what to do with your objects and actions)
Motion Tween
Motion Guide
Bouncing Effect
Hope this helps you,
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When I animate my character with classic tweens, the arm always detatches from it's source. Does anyone know how to fix this WITHOUT creating new keyframes or using motion guides? Please answer!

you have a character with an arm. if you place that character on a timeline (with no tween) and test your movie, the arm stays where it should, correct?
you then animate that character with a motion tween (in which case you would expect the arm to stay where it should) or are you using a shape-tween (and then all-heck could and, in your case, does break loose)?

For character animation is frame by frame, motion or classic tween?

Hi, i'm very new to adobe flash. I'm using cs5
Am i right in thinking that for detailed character animation, of cartoons or people, i would still need to do frame by frame animation, and then probably use tweening for big movements like making that same animation move across the screen?
Your responses would be appreciated.

I am not an animator (most of the time) but if I were I think I would probably end up using timeline tweening wherever it helped make things easier, especially for what you are calling big movements like having things zoom or move or to have a background moving if the animation involves characters moving.

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The logo that I want to hyperlink has several layers, and what I've done so far is select them all and create a button (F8, select 'Button' and rename it). When I did that, I noticed the layers significantly changed and when I tested the movie, it looks terrible, choppy and not how it originally looked.
I know the step after that is to go into behaviors and insert the url to which I want it to be hyperlinked. The only thing is that I don't want to show a terrible flash movie to my boss even if it's hyperlinked to the homepage.
Anyone understand all that gibberish I wrote down? Or does anyone see a flaw in what I'm doing? I'm not 100% positive if the steps I'm taking are correct, I've been to several different sites, all of which tell me to do different things.
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... how do I give that shape/button a url?
Since it is a button, it is already a self animating object that will react to mouse interactions, but only visually at this stage. The first thing you need to do to make it useful code-wise is to assign it a unique instance name. So you drag a copy of it out to the stage from the library, and while it's still selected, you enter that unique instance name for it in the Properties panel... let's say you name it "btn1"
In AS3, to make a button work with code, you need to add an event listener and event handler function for it. You might need to add a few (for different events, like rollover, rollout, clicking it, but for now we'll just say you want to be able to click it to get a web page to open. In the timeline that holds that button, in a separate actions layer that you create, in a frame numbered the same as where that button exists, you would add the event listener:
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1Click);
The name of the unique function for processing the clicking of that button is specified at the end of the event listener assignment, so now you just have to write that function out:
function btn1Click(evt:MouseEvent):void {
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   var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
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... how do I know it's properly placed on the correct area?
What area? If you place it where you want it, that should be correct. (?)
... how do I make sure it's invisible...?
If you can't see it when you test the file and you know it's there and your cursor turns into a hand when you are over where it should be, it's invisible.
...how do I see the other objects in the flash file I'm working on?
Select Edit -> Edit Document to get out of the symbol editing mode and back to the file editing mode. If you doubleclick an object on the stage, rather than clickingit in the library, you open it up in editing mode on the stage, but the stage and everything else will still be visible behind it in a faded tone.

New to Flash - Graphic Animation

I bought a web template last week and I am trying to figure
out how they created the animation! The link is below.
http://inquery.biz/beta/flash/header.swf
I want to be able to create that same animation to the
graphic below. I have the source flash file if need be. I am new to
flash so any help or pointers would be great! Thank you.
http://inquery.biz/beta/flash/default.swf

Thank you that would be awesome! Can you email me it please?
Thanks again-
gmatteson
at
inquery
dot
biz

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I hope this is the right place to post this:
I'm looking for a character animation suite for AE. An ideal solution would be this: a plugin which let's users create a rig, animate it and save the complete animation (or animation-loop) to be used on different characters. The ability to blend between different animation-sets would also be really neat. I know that e.g. 3DSMax has these functions. Is there anything remotely similar for AE? Do you have any pointers?
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key on your keyboard. The very WORST habit that is taught to studio
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This creates a Group. It's faster than hitting F8 and typing in a
name, but it causes ENORMOUS problems, especially when doing
retakes and revisions. And it results in gargantuan SWF files.
I literally GLUED a thumbtack to one one animator's keyboard,
since he seemed unable to remember this rule. Luckily this wasn't
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