Is Flash what I should be using for this simple animation?

Hi I have a fairly simple question...
Im working on a project which started with simple drawings of
a particular animal. One of the drawings ive done involves the
motion of part of this animal. The next portion of this assignment
requires me to begin working digitally, and recreating these
drawings precisely in Autocad.
The problem is that I need essentially create a storyboard of
images showing the motion of this animal in detail. So essentially
im going to need 40+ frames showing this motion. It would be the
equivalent of creating a flip book animation, but im going to be
tiling all these frames next to eachother.
Now as opposed to drawing 40+ separate images I had the idea
to use Flash to produce these images for me.
Heres essentially what I want to do:
- Scan the drawings ive done
- Reproduce them digitally through Autocad
- Import these drawings into Flash (either as Autocad files
or I can convert them to Illustrator files)
- Basically have two images... 1 at the start of the motion
and 1 at the end of the motion, and use flash tween's to
extrapolate the motion in between.
So ideally I could create 40 frames, with the 1st keyframe
showing the beginning of the motion, the 40th showing the final
stage of motion, and each frame in between providing me with the
separate drawing that I need.
Any thoughts or advice on how I can go about doing this? I
havent used Flash in years so im still relatively unskilled with
it...
Thanks so much for your help!!

I agree with Gibbah. Flash doesn't do magic with tweens. Of
course, you can try. But if you're looking for NATURAL motion, then
it needs to be drawn naturally-by hand.
Sure, you can try it in Flash, but at best it will help you
to tween every 4th drawing or so (so you'll still need 10 key
drawings), and you'll spend ages tweaking the tweens, since (I
repeat) Flash doesn't do magic with tweens, nor does any other
software. You're talking of 4-legged animal movement, which I
assume includes walking, which is a pretty complicated thing: 4
legs, each double-jointed, plus the feet, then a body which bends,
and the head and neck which move up and down. You'll have to
separate each leg, the body and the head, at the very least, tween
each of these, then go back and fix where the tweens come out all
screwy.
As for scanning, you can scan line artwork (preferably very
clean lines done with pen or dark pencil) and then vectorize them
directly in Flash. No need for the Autocad stage.
To be honest, I think you'll find it faster to do the 40
drawings individually. Check a good reference book such as the
famous Eadweard Muybridge (yes, I spelled it correctly) photos of
animal movements, and then you can rotoscope these (that is, trace
them). You'll end up with less frustration and a gorgeous animation
which looks natural, not machine-made. You could do the tracing
directly in Flash as well, using the onion skin mode to help
you.

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