Part animation guide, part Flash manual, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning provides a practical primer on classic, hand-drawn 2D screen animation as well as an introduction to using Flash for creating your own cartoons. Section I discusses the terms and techniques of hand-drawn animation, character design, and storyboards, while Section II covers scanning, digitizing your artwork into Flash, and setting up scenes.
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There are few books out there that cover using Flash as traditional animation medium, and even fewer that are any good. The Art of Flash Animation is another book in the "not so good" column.
The fact that this book came from a small publisher like Wordware means you don't get a lot of the frills you'd expect in an animation book. The illustrations are a bit sparse and in black & white. There's no CD of examples or finished files. A lot of the projects he mentions can be found on his website, which I wasn't particularly impressed with; especially the audio on his personal cartoons. Even though the book spends a lot of time talking about animation and Flash, not a lot of usable information comes out of it. A few tidbits of animation knowledge come out, but still the best advice this book gives is to read The Animator's Survival Kit. I don't need a $23 book to tell me to buy a $20 book. The Flash instruction is also rather lacking. If you've never touched Flash before in your life, you might learn something. If you already have a working knowledge of the program, you won't learn a thing. All in all, it's quite a bit of money to spend on such a small amount of learning.
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I have been trying to learn to animate, draw, model, 2d, 3D . spend time as and when its available on books, software, pencil and paper.
I try my hand at Maya, Anim8or, Flash, ToonBoom, Blender .. anything that lets me draw and animate. I started looking at Flash recently with renewed vigour. I picked this book up along with a few others. The book addresses the newbie. teaches traditional style animation using Flash. which involves quite a few things. character design Character construction Thumbnails storyboarding Camera shots sound track acting etc.. which are general pieces, and then specifics on Flash such as, basic tools to get the characters into flash, symbols, scenes, library rigging etc. This is a nice walkthrough of all the tools you need as part of mastering the trade. I would think this is a very good primer. Gets you going. then you go fill the gaps, build on it. The book provides an overview of the various stages , very simple and easy to read. The style of writing is more like that of a fellow student trying to figure out things. I wouldn't say this is 'the' book, but certainly provides a good starting point.
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This is a book more so about TRADITIONAL animation techniques. It hardly touches on using flash to animate. If you want to learn how to use Flash to animate look elsewhere. In fact, this book isn't even that good of a traditional animation book. I would like to return this book to writer...in person.
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storyboard layer, symbol onstage, wacky sidekick, blur pan, mouth layer, animation paper, peg bar, line width variation, blank keyframe, animation classes, animation drawings, animation director, first keyframe, onion skinning, pose test, digitizing tablet, model sheet, animation cels, mouth positions, drawing animation, registration point, stroke style, animation industry, key drawings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free Transform, Richard Williams, Final Cut, Roger Rabbit, Cartoon Network, Flash Player, Shape Tweening, Action Safe, Eyeball Tween, Tangent Man, Color Mixer, Paint Normal, Publish Settings, Bit Mono, Brush Mode, Macromedia Director, New York, Paint Fills, Pilot Precise, Timeline Scene, Title Safe, Create Motion Tween, Export Movie, Insert Layer, Midnight Sneak New!
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storyboard layer, symbol onstage, wacky sidekick, blur pan, mouth layer, animation paper, peg bar, line width variation, blank keyframe, animation classes, animation drawings, animation director, first keyframe, onion skinning, pose test, digitizing tablet, model sheet, animation cels, mouth positions, drawing animation, registration point, stroke style, animation industry, key drawings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free Transform, Richard Williams, Final Cut, Roger Rabbit, Cartoon Network, Flash Player, Shape Tweening, Action Safe, Eyeball Tween, Tangent Man, Color Mixer, Paint Normal, Publish Settings, Bit Mono, Brush Mode, Macromedia Director, New York, Paint Fills, Pilot Precise, Timeline Scene, Title Safe, Create Motion Tween, Export Movie, Insert Layer, Midnight Sneak New!
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