Flash Animation Production Tips

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In the Flash animation, especially the production of short films are more or less to show some more complex action, and the limitations of the function of the flash itself in the production of animation feel the hands and feet are diverted, or to pay too much time and energy. Here the author summarizes their own animation of the production of some of the experience, for everyone to encounter such problems as a reference.

　　I. Simplification of the subject

First of all, the action of the main body of the simple or not on the production workload has a great impact, good at the action of the main body simplification, can multiply the efficiency of the work.

One of the most obvious examples is the small "match Man" Kung Fu series, such as the figure can be seen, the main body of the animation is quite simplified, with such a subject to make action-oriented films, that is, the use of a complete frame-by-step production, the workload is also affordable. Imagine using a lifelike person's image as an action body to make such an animation, the workload will increase a lot.

　　Note: for not moving as the main object of animation, the picture is simple and labor-saving prescription.

　　second, try to use deformation

Motion Tween and Shape Tween are two variants provided by Flash, which require only two keyframes to be specified, and the middle process is generated by the computer itself, so it is the most often used to perform the action when making the movie.

However, sometimes with a single deformation, the action will appear more monotonous, you can consider the combination of the use of deformation. For example, by the foreground, medium and background to make deformation, or only the foreground and background respectively deformation, the workload is small, but also can achieve good results.

　　 third, the use of certain skills

For many of the actions that cannot be performed using motion tween and shape tween, we often use frame-by-step animation, which is to draw every detail of the action in one frame at a time.

Obviously, this is a very hard work, we try to avoid frame-by-step production, when there is no time to avoid, using some small skills can reduce a certain amount of effort.

　　 1. Cyclic method

This is the most commonly used method, simplifying some of the actions into movie Clip, which consists of frames-by-frame animations of only a few frames, or even 2 or 3 frames (as in the previous example, where the rabbit's somersault is 2 frames), uses the movie Clip's looping features to perform some animations, such as hair, clothes, walking, Speech and other animations often use this method.

　　 2. Excerpt Gradient method

In the performance of a "slow" action, such as hand slowly open, the head (front) slowly lifted, with frame-by-step animation can choke you to death. We can consider taking a few key frames from the entire action and then using a gradient or Flash method to represent the whole action.

In this example, through the four "moments" in the Zhang He action of the contestant, four graphs have been plotted, defined as movie clip, with an alpha (transparency) distortion to show a complete hand Zhang He action.

It would take a lot of time and effort to draw the whole action up and down the frame, and it would simplify the work at the same time as the basic effect.

　　Note: This method is suitable for the complex action of "slow Motion", in addition, some special situations, such as the D Hall, because of the flashing lights in the dark, is also "natural" extracts action, this time without deformation direct flash can.

　　3. Substitution method

This is a smarter way to use other things, instead of complex movements, which can be a lot of things, such as shadows, sounds. The following two examples show the action with shadows and sounds respectively.

　　Note: The essence of the method lies in the "Shini", as for how empty, you have to move the brain more.

　　4. Copying method

Beginners often difficult to do their own action to draw, at this time can be copied some video and so on, import them into the flash, because of the reference, complete up easier. And on the basis of copying further processing, so that the animation more perfect.

In the example above, the Mongolian wrestling action is entirely a piece of video "description" out.

The specific operation is from the use of Jie Ba from the video will need to intercept the animation, output into a series of pictures (Flash MX can be imported directly into the video), imported into the flash, according to its description, the specific style by your own decision.

　　 Note:The difference between general video and flash playback speed, Flash is generally 12fps,video may be 24 or 25fps.

　　 5, re-processing method

In the following example, the action of the bull's head is taken as a movie Clip, with the rotation of the head "lift up", from the result of the 1th step, there is a "fault" between the head and neck, the 2nd step, we will transform all the frames into a key frame, and break it, and then by frame around the neck to modify, Finally we do a certain modification, to the cow with "Phnom Penh" the whole animation atmosphere came out.