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How To Animate Cartoons & Drawings With Flash Pro: / / Get Started

This tutorial teaches how to animate cartoons and drawings using Adobe Flash Professional CC. It consists of 6 videos totaling 35 minutes that show how to create and animate a character called Sad Potato. The first video demonstrates setting up the document and stage. The next videos cover drawing the background, creating the character symbol, and animating the character by moving and tweening. Fine-tuning the movement and exporting the project for different formats are also demonstrated. Viewers learn the basics of using Flash Professional to animate characters and scenes.

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86 views6 pages

How To Animate Cartoons & Drawings With Flash Pro: / / Get Started

This tutorial teaches how to animate cartoons and drawings using Adobe Flash Professional CC. It consists of 6 videos totaling 35 minutes that show how to create and animate a character called Sad Potato. The first video demonstrates setting up the document and stage. The next videos cover drawing the background, creating the character symbol, and animating the character by moving and tweening. Fine-tuning the movement and exporting the project for different formats are also demonstrated. Viewers learn the basics of using Flash Professional to animate characters and scenes.

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/ Flash Professional CC / Get started


How to animate cartoons &
drawings with Flash Pro
What do I need?
The latest Flash Professional CC
Don’t have it yet?
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Installation problems? Get help.
The tutorial files
Everything you need in order to follow along, including sample images to use
if you’d like.
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…And how about a cheat sheet?


Work Flash key commands like a pro.Download it now.
Who is this for?
This tutorial is perfect for first time Flash Professional users.
How long is the tutorial?
Total video time: 35 minutes. Budget extra time if you plan to follow along.

 
Presenter:Joseph Labrecque

Draw and animate Sad Potato in Flash.


In this tutorial, we’ll see how to use Flash Professional to animate our
new favorite character, Sad Potato. We’ll begin by creating vector
graphics and then learn how to animate characters and scenes by using
the Library and Timeline. To wrap up, we’ll export our finished
project for Flash Player, HTML5 Canvas and video formats for
playback on computers, tablets, and phones. If you need any help or
have questions along the way, let us know in our forum for this
tutorial.
Set the Stage for your animation.
  
Set the Stage
 The New Document Dialog (0:24)
 Show the Grid (2:15)
 Snap to the Grid (2:35)
In this first video, we get acquainted with the FLA document type and
prepare our Stage surface for the lessons to follow by setting the
project width, height, background color, and FPS.

Create the scene for our character.


  
Create the scene
 The Rectangle Primitive Tool (0:21)
 Import an image (2:30)
 Use Oval Primitive Tool (3:16)

Create the background and foreground for our animated project using
the built-in drawing and image import tools. Import a photograph of
the sky, create some grass, and draw a cloud using the Oval Primitive
tool.

Let’s draw Sad Potato.


  
Draw the character
 Create a Symbol (1:31)
 Use the Lasso Tool (3:11)
 Use the Free Transform Tool (4:12)

In this lesson, we’ll use symbols and the project library as we create
the character. We’ll see how to draw out the character’s body, legs,
and face and work with these elements across Timeline layers.

Animate the character.


  
Animate the character
 Move the Transform Point (1:20)
 Create Motion Tweens (2:07)
 Use a Shape Tween (6:09)
This lesson shows how to create a looping animated sequence that
makes our character walk. In doing so, we’ll see how to modify our
Graphic symbol and use Frames and Motion Tweens to create the
animation.

Fine-tune the character’s movement.


  
Fine-tune the movement
 Animate the Character (3:09)
 Modify the Motion Path (3:58)
 Duplicate a layer (4:40)

This lesson ties it all together by animating elements of our scene


across time and controlling our character’s movement from one side
of the stage to the other while animating other properties such as size
and position along a Motion Path.

Export the project for the web, iPad,


and more.
  
Export the project
 Publish Settings (0:30)
 Publish to HTML Canvas (1:55)
 Export a Video (4:32)

In this final lesson, we demonstrate how to publish our project for


Flash Player, HTML Canvas, and as a self-contained video for
distribution across virtually any device.
How was the tutorial?
We hope that you had fun with Sad Potato and that you’re ready to create
your own characters with Flash Professional. We want to make sure that this
tutorial is as useful to you as it can be – let us know how you did.

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