Getting started with the bones tool can be intimidating and tricky, but it can be your best friend for animating once you’ve had some practice. You can create bones (armatures) for graphic shapes (like a simple triangle) or a set of movie clips. During this screencast, I’ll demonstrate using the bones tool with shapes and will follow up using bones with movie clips.
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The key to animation, like many things, is a logical approach and good workflow. In this tut, Hasier takes you through planning, sketching and refining your animation to give you the movement you’re looking for.
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This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer. It will cover xml parsing, loading and resizing external images, and creating intuitive and responsive scrolling!
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ActionScript can be a great tool for enhancing your animations. In this tutorial we’ll look at the basics of ActionScripted animation. We’ll take a look at how to actually move a movie clip using ActionScript, various forms of collision detection and how to use these techniques to add some interaction to your Flash movies. Let’s get started!
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In this tutorial we’ll see how we can create a caricature, split it into different layers then arrange the pieces properly as graphic symbols. Finally we’ll look at how easily we can smoothly animate the caricature by using motion tweens. This is a lengthy tutorial, so let’s get started!
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