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okay i am making my own animation series with moving wolves hopefuly but i don't want to use like pictures like my friends like where it shows a picture of the charicters and just voices i want a proper moving charicters like the link below please please please help me please if you do i will let you name a charicter please help me

Also the name of the program a adress and hopefuly please try and find one that is free

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmfBMtwWXQ&feature=PlayList&p=15548B2A30A3043F&index=3

Thanks Ash x x

Answer 1

To make a figure (lets take the stick figure) move in flash, you need to look at it like a animated cartoon movie.

Ever Move a figure makes is divided into several pictures.

So for a stick figure to let&#039;s say raise his left arm, you would start in the first frame with the figure and both arms down.

Then in the next frame, you would copy the same picture and just move the arm up a little. In the next frame move it up a little more and so on.

End with the figure having his arm raised.

Now if you start the movie and those frames are played one after the other, it will look as if it is moving. If it does not look fluid enough, add some more frames in between and raise the arm in each frame a little bit less than before.

The more complicated your object and its movement is, the more complex it will get.

In the example you linked in your question, the first few seconds the wolfs movement consist of only around 10 frames, then they repeat again. So the one that did this video, drew 10 pictures of this wolf with every picture being slightly different along the movement path of the object and then ran them one after the other. To have a good reference point for how many pictures you need, the human eye needs at least 12 Pictures per second to have the notion of movement.

Hope this helps.

By the way, for easy objects, like circles or squares or even to transform objects from one shape to another, you can use transitions. But you cannot exaclty control the motion.

Lets say you want a circle to grow from small to large, draw a circle in the first frame, then go about 20 frames further and copy this circle.

Make it bigger in the 20th frame and then right klick the timeline betwen the frames and select, i think it is called &quot;transition&quot;. This will automatically fill the rest of the frames with an ever bigger circle.

Try this as a first source for animation

http://www.idleworm.com/how/index.shtml

Answer 2

I did something like that with Flash but it&#039;s tricky to get the hang of and have it be that fluid...

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/ Sorry its not free but you can get a free trial for 30 days or i&#039;m sure you could find a nice cracked version online somewhere

Answer 3

Not that I would watch this everyday but its quite easy.

There aren&#039;t many frames used here they stand still till the move which isn&#039;t difficult, try consistent motion that would be hard.

Ok well you can use flash, or you can even use fireworks or image ready really just make scenes and open it into a video editor.

At your stage I would recommend you study hard, this may be easy to me but you are not ready yet for it.