Animation Practice

I use Adobe Flash Professional to animate because this is the software that I am used to using and it is also known as one of the best animation softwares. To get drawings or shapes to animate, you can either move it bit by bit for each frame manually or you can turn the object into a symbol.

Once it is a symbol, you can create a new frame with the shape in a different position and create a motion tween between the frames.







Flash will then automatically move the shape during the number of frames that have been motion tweened. The shape can have a number for the ease which means it will either start or finish by moving more slowly than normal. To do this, each frame jst has less movements between them so that it looks like it is moving slowly.




I had made the frames per second be 25 because this is the number of frames per second that is normally on the TV. The video will be 30 frames per second but the animation will be 25. This shouldn't be a problem because video editing softwares can play at both frames per second.

Each frame can be separately drawn and by using the onion skin technique in the last image, you can see the previous frames and can make judgements on how the next frame should look by looking at the previous movements.