Flash Animation Online Course

Flash Animation - Online Course

- Additional Tests -

Bonus - 1 | Water Splash |
- Guidelines for the Water Splash
- Structure & Design of the Water Splash
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Bonus - 2 | Rotoscoping |
This site will extract any YouTube clip of your choosing:
Clip Converter
Samples:

Bonus - 3 | Walk Cycle with Symbols |
INSTRUCTIONS
Sample:

Character Building Reference: - Video Crash Course + Flash File

Bonus - 4 | Bird Flight |
- Bird Flight Guide
Sample:

Bonus - 5 | Box Step |

Bonus - 6 | Dragon Drink |
Sample:

- Tips for Facial Animation (Part 1)
- Tips for Facial Animation (Part 2)

Bonus - 7 | Flag Wave Cycle |
- Tips on Animating Drapery
Sample:

Bonus - 8 | Flour Sac Drop |
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Bonus - 9 | Gunfire FX |
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Bonus- 10 | Walk Cycle - Inbetweens / Walk-Thru |
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Bonus - 11 | Lip Sync - Hand Drawn |
Sample:

- Hand Drawn Lip Sync Tips

Bonus - 12 | Reaction Take |
Animating a facial "take" (a surprised reaction) seems simple enough in concept, but once you get into it you'll find it requires as much understanding of animation principles as any other performance you might try to create. Create a very simple character do animate a surprised reaction take. Keep it as a medium shot, either front-on or profile view.
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FINAL Test | Acting Scenes |
Uncompress and extract the files from the package and choose one of the scenes to animate.
You have 20 different dialogue shots to choose from, listen to the audio from each scene,
then choose one to design the character(s) for and storyboard, plan out, and animate the scene.

You may use the Dillon model, but preferrably design your own characters.

When it comes to acting and reacting, there's no better reference to use but yourself!
Record yourself doing various takes as you speak out the dialogue from your chosen scene, then import the footage in Flash to use as direct reference fo acting cues and inspiration on how to pose and animate your character's performance.

This clip from "Speedy Gonzales" (1955) offers a basic but effective example of "show, don't tell" in animated storytelling. Rather than have characters explain with dialogue how many mice have been lost, the filmmakers reveal a pile of sombreros to denote the struggle. Another sophisticated bit of visual storytelling in this clip: though the death takes place offscreen, the characters that we are watching onscreen go from jumping up and down to absolute stillness, mimicking the fate of the offscreen character.

Inspiration - Music Videos produced with Flash:

Arj and Poopy: Unlucky in Love -By Bernard Derriam:

Arj and Poopy : Congo Windfall -By Bernard Derriam:

"Opinion vs. Fact" -By Matt Shepherd

Ron Burgandy - By: Matt Shepherd

Tenacious D -By: Matt Shepherd

Saturday Morning Watchmen -By: Harry Partridge

Gabe Swarr's How to Make Comic Strips in Flash:

Blind Date -By: Mondo Media

Upstate Four -By The Krause Brothers:

The following are videos showing the process behind designing characters and backgrounds for the Castle Crashers game, by Dan Paladin:

Undead Cyclops

Frost King

Tall Grass Field Part 1

Tall Grass Field Part 2

The King's Boat Design Part 1

The King's Boat Design Part

Industrial Castle Construction

Marsh Land Construction

Making of the World Map

Comic-Con 2008 Flag Design

This is the first 5 min of a 3-hour tutorial by Grand Master Flash Artist, Adam Philips, explaining the process for animating a scene, step-by-step and frame-by-frame: