animating

[aprendiz]

Hi guys, how are you, hope fine.
I am posting this because i have been doing flash animations for some years, and i wanted to know this from someone whos works on it or who knows some about it:
When i make a fluid animation i can't just make the same Movie clip to look different (without making double click and making an intern animation) so i have to make an animation frame by frame, it is a hard job, i have done it of course, but i wanna know if yoou do it too, i mean doy uo  make a fluid animation by making avery frame?

thanks guys, Miguel

[Bjorn]

try making a movie clip inside of a movieclip :-)

[Bjorn]

I think that frame by frame www.biteycastle.com looks a hell lot better than tweening but thats just me.

[Darkness]

I perfer tweening mostly because it's less tedious. If you're not careful though, it can mess up the picture really bad.

[aprendiz]

HI guys, thanks to all of you, i use to make frame by frame, despite it is a lot tedious it turns out better, but i've got to confes that sometimes i am too lazy (speccially when it is something i make joking or something) and do it tweening, it mess up sometimes but i have got to the point that it mess up very few times. thanks to all, i'll keep doing it frame by frame, it is a tough work but it is worth it

[Darkness]

Oh yeah... Faster framerate helps make it look smoother, but I'm willing to bet you knew that

What framerate are you using, and what kinda flash is it?

[zizdodrian]

You can use actionscript to generate dependency based tweening. An example of where such a procedure might be used could be in animating an arm. Actionscript moves the fingers and hand along certain formulas according to the rotation and X/Y of the arm.

This will work great for games, etc... but not terribly well for movies/plain animation, because actionscript doesn't render to non interactive formats.

[aprendiz]

I use flash MX 2004, and my framerate is generally 20 ftps/s but some times i also use 30, it looks much smother, hehe