A word about this; a coworker of mine suggested that I do a series of tutorials on Flash drawing and animation. Examples will be taken from my film for more indy related stuff and some examples from work files and processes used in game development. I have always believed that its good karma to share all that you know. That said I will attempt to share all that I know. Enough said, now for the first lesson.
LESSON 01
Efficiency in Flash is important. Whether you are working on your own or on a production team, you need to get your work done as fast as possible. In this lesson I will explore JSFL plugins for Flash.
JSFL (Javascript Flash) is a script language that lets you perform certain tasks with in Flash. The best analogy I can come up with is that its a harder to work with version of Actions in Photoshop. That said its not as easy to use. I personally have no idea how to make any of these, though that doesn’t mean you can’t use them. First you will need to get your self a copy of Adobe Extension Manager. You will Extension Manager to install all the following extensions.
My Coworker Allison sent me this awesome link show examples of animation that has New York in it. I think I can add to this a bit, though this is a pretty exhaustive list.
Oh boy second post in two days, well I should be working right now on a video for myNOGGIN, but I just had to post this page that I animated. Basically we have these pages on Nick Jr.’s website called landing pages and these are usually used as introductory sections for show titles. Our newest property is this really wonderfully animated show called Ni Hao Kai-lan. I have not been this excited to have worked on a page since doing Wonder Pets!. Its a really wonderful show and if you are into animation I suggest having a look at the show on Nick Jr. With out further adieu here is the page.
Happy New Year, for that matter Happy Chinese New Year! It has been so long since my last post. Well I did post, about my store, but then I took that down as it fell through. I learned a lot from the experience a lot which I will apply to something similar in a few years. So for now I am keeping all of it to myself including the idea ;)
In the meantime I have been working on my film “Automatic Doors”. Its never really a good idea to have your whole work in progress online, so instead I will post out of order 1 minute chunks of rough animation online. Currently I have a little over 50 seconds done right now.
I always cringe when I see articles on line similar to the following article from Reuters (Big media seen playing hardball with Apple). Specifically this quote:
“If there isn’t any video you want to watch, the device itself is worth less money,” Forrester analyst James McQuivey said of the iPod and other Apple products, such as the Apple TV set-top box and the iPhone.
James, you just don’t get it do you? Most people who own video iPods who want to have their DVD’s on their iPods just use one of the many programs that allows people to RIP DVDs. Not to say that I do this because it would violate the DMCA. However copying what you already have purchased is legal under US copyright law, so long as its not digital in nature. DMCA says you need to repurchase. That aside there are many many ways which people use to take their pre-owned content and make it available on their digital media player. Most of them are quite easy.
So here is the latest render. I have finished the rough animation. Yay! It only took me 3 weeks! Argh way too long. Also the whole shot was initially spec-ed out to be about 6 seconds, the final version here is now at 8 seconds. It was moving way too fast. I still have one major thing I have to evaluate, is the pho pan that I did with the character here any good or should I do some sort of syncing thing in Blender?
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| My friend Amy is finally back from here 11 month adventure in Japan working on the CGI animated version of Poo for the Disney Channel. Well actually she got back about 2 months ago. She brought her friend Buun, who also worked on Poo. |
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I received this email the other day and wanted to post the answer so I don’t have to respond again, not that I mind, its just easier. What tools did you use to create “I Am”?I’ve been surveying tools to try to make a sensible choice for myself…Thanks!- Daniel J. I made “I Am” back in 2003 so some of what I did is a bit outdated. That said the my setup at the time was as follows: In one shot I would use most of what I just listed. The whole film was created in 1080p also known as fill HD. The resolution is 1080x 1920 and the frame rate was 24 fps using square pixels. The nice thing about 1080p other than it looking amazing, is it transfers t film really nice. Also what is nice is it converts really well into almost any other format, DVD, 720p, 1080i or web. |
The Wonderpets! Save the Day game which I did the animation for last year has just won a silver BDA award. What was interesting about this game was how we tried to mirror the animation from the show and we ended up using scaled down assets from the TV show. Read the rest of this entry »
So it has been a while since ANYTHING has been updated on this site. I do plan to revamp ALL the art on this site. It all needs to go. I have all new art, I just have not had the time to update it.
Otherwise on the homepage there is a still from the revamp of “Automatic Doors” I will post animation once I have a large chunk done.
Also my thesis film “I Am” is now up on Atom Films. Click below to vote. Right now the average is a 3.4, better than I would give it :P
