/ zedrin-maybe
/ zedrin (nsfw)
This tutorial is very long so I've included timestamps/annotations to act as 'chapters.' This is more meant to show my approach to animation in an effort to explain what tricks I use to animate quicker.
0:00 - Introduction
1:22 - Puppet overview
2:14 - Storyboarding
3:15 - Keyframecaddy and lipsynching
4:23 - Converting the lipsynch to a symbol with NewAnimClip
5:35 - Animating the rest of the facial features in the nested head
7:27 - Nesting an entire character animation
8:03 - Janimation Toolkit plugin
10:50 - Animation timelapse (no dialog)
13:51 - Technique discussion and making a looped animation
15:59 - Finished product
Special thanks to Plasterbrain for letting me use her music
/ plasterbrain
PLUGIN INFORMATION
I keep an overview of all plugins and tools I've acquired for Flash on my tumblr, including several not featured here. http://goo.gl/I9pORQ
Keyframe Caddy: http://goo.gl/CheQf7
NewAnimClip, break into layers, swap colors, and more available at http://goo.gl/UxsqSF
(Toonmonkey has a lot of really simple but really useful extensions)
jAnimation Tools by Jay Edry + overview: • jAnimation Flash Tools: Overview