TheDarkDemon

A thing I do is make a layer and turn it into a guide layer by simply right clicking the layer and choosing guide. This means whatever you draw on this layer will not show up in the animation. Then draw your stickfigure in an upright position and guidelines for the feet, centre of the body and the head. Now you will always have a rough idea the size of the figure should be.

AbsolutelyCheese wrote:Anyone have some tips on keeping the proportions consistent? It's the only thing keeping me from sharing my anims right now.

ctrl + shift + alt + r and you get the ruler tool, drag a line from the one of the rulers, also ctrl + ' for the grid

Making my first flash animation now shortly, any tips for a solid newbie to make his first animation?

LordPivot wrote:Making my first flash animation now shortly, any tips for a solid newbie to make his first animation?

Animate the main frame positions, then add in the in-betweens

I'd say red, brown and details in green, blue and/or purple would work perfectly. Actually, general green and blue with purple details would work as well. It's just what you want to go for.

my first

http://i.imgur.com/vnGa4pN.gif

look guys look

Fantastic Waffles, I cannot believe how good it is... XD

I worked on it a bit more

http://i.imgur.com/QPAk6t6.gif

I think I'm gonna do some regular tests before I do anything more serious.

Like A LITTLE RUN: http://i.imgur.com/LEzkHFK.gif

I feel like using the line tool would be much better for you, Waffles.

http://sifterpivoter.deviantart.com/art/Ye-519714051 it's a kinda old test I've done not so long ago. It wasn't anything serious, so it was pretty natural for it not to look as good as necessary. Might do another test another time.

I got a tablet, damnit. I gotta learn by drawing.

Please don't use the brush tool. The only thing it'd teach you is how to drop your art level to 0%. I needed several days to recover from that anim.

I'd take brush tool over line tool any day. Never noticed a change in my drawings after animating in Flash. Just git gud skrubs

Brush tool 4 lyfe

You brush tool heathens have no clue what you're on about
line tool superiority
also, if you guy's problem with line is that the connect to each other, just turn object drawing on