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The Art of Flash ® Animation: Creative Cartooning Mark Stephen Smith Wordware Publishing, Inc. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Smith,MarkStephen. Theartofflashanimation:creativecartooning/byMarkStephenSmith. p.cm. Includesindex. ISBN-10:1-59822-026-8(pbk.) ISBN-13:978-1-59822-026-1 1. Computeranimation. 2. Flash(Computerfile). I. Title. TR897.7.S582007 006.6'96--dc22 2006039455 ©2007,WordwarePublishing,Inc. AllRightsReserved 1100SummitAvenue,Suite102 Plano,Texas75074 Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorby anymeanswithoutpermissioninwritingfrom WordwarePublishing,Inc. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ISBN-10:1-59822-026-8 ISBN-13:978-1-59822-026-1 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0701 AdobeandFlashareregisteredtrademarksofAdobeSystemsIncorporatedintheUnitedStatesand/or othercountries. 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Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Section I — Drawing and the Animation Process Chapter1 Introduction to The Art of Flash Animation . . . . . . . . . 3 WhyAnimation?YouMayAsk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 WhyFlash?YouMayAsk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 WhyNotJustLearnFlash?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 WhyThisBook?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ParagraphQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 WhatItIsandWhatItAin’t… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Chapter2 Learning to Draw: Tools and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 ThreeMethodsofCharacterDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 TheFrankensteinMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 TheObservationalMethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 TheRandomDoodleMethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 MyDrawingProcessandTools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 AnimationPencils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 AnimationPaperandtheAcmePegBar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 LearningtoDraw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 ThreeMethodsofCharacterConstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 TheGridMethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 TheGingerbreadMethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 TheGeometricConstructionMethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 BasicCharacterTypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 BasicHeroConstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 BasicHeroineConstruction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 WackySidekicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 TheVillain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 CopyrightRegistration:ProtectingYourCreation . . . . . . . . . 68 Chapter3 Thumbnails, Storyboards, and Layout. . . . . . . . . . . 71 Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Storyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 TheRuleofThirds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 MakeItPainfullyObvious. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 v Contents BasicCameraShots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 TheWideShot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 TheFullShot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 TheMediumShot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 TheClose-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 TheExtremeClose-Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 OtherUsefulCameraShots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 CutawayShot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Cut-inShot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Over-the-ShoulderShot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Point-of-ViewShot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 NoddyShot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 CameraPitfallstoAvoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Jump-cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 CameraMoves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 ZoomIn/ZoomOut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 TruckIn/TruckOut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 TiltUp/TiltDown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 PanLeft/PanRight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 CameraTransitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 TheCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Fade-In/Fade-Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 BlurPanorZipPan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 LayoutandBackgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 ArtMarkerBackgrounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Chapter4 Soundtracks and… What’s an Animatic? . . . . . . . . 113 TheDialogueTrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 RecordingDialogueataProfessionalStudio . . . . . . . . . . 122 RecordingDialogueatHome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 TheMusicTrack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 EditingSoundEffects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 ImportingSoundtracksinFlash(Formats) . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Animatic,or“PoseTest,”Defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Chapter5 An Actor with a Pencil… Um, Pixel . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 AFewWordsonActing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Comedyvs.Tragedy:ThePowerofSympathy . . . . . . . . . . 140 Animationvs.IllustratedRadio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 SuspensionofDisbelief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 LineofActionandSilhouettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 AllintheEyes…Eyelids…orEyebrows? . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 ReadMyLips…TheImportanceofLipSynch . . . . . . . . . . 158 vi Contents ThreeMethodsofAnimation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Straight-ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Pose-to-Pose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 TheBestMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 SecondaryActionandFollow-Through. . . . . . . . . . . . 171 MechanicalInbetweeningvs.“SlowingIn”and “SlowingOut” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 TheHardestThingtoAnimate…SoGetIt OverwithFirst! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 ClosingThoughtsonActingwithPencilsandPixels . . . . . . . 180 Section II — Using Flash to Animate Your Drawings Chapter6 First Peek inside Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 InstallingandCreatingaShortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 CreatingaNewFlashDocument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 OverviewofFlash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 TheTimeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 TheToolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 TheStage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 CreatingYourMovie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 ImportingFiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 WorkingwithLayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 ImportingtheSoundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 WorkingwithFrames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 ExportingYourMovie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 CritiquingYourMovie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Chapter7 Inking, Scanning, and Tablets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Drawingwiththe…Mouse? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Oh,forCryingOutLoud…BuyaWacomAlready!. . . . . . . . 221 TheInkingandScanningApproach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 InkingwithaPen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 InkingwithaBrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 ScanningYourInkedDrawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 ScanningTips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 ImportingArtintoFlash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 SettingYourStage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 ForVideo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 ForWebandMultimedia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 DocumentProperties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 FrameRate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 CreatefromTemplate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 TraceBitmap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 vii Contents ToolboxBasics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 ThePaintbucketTool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 ThePaintbrushTool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 ThePencilTool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 TheInkBottleTool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 GradientswiththePaintbucketTool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 CreatingYourOwnCustomGradientFills . . . . . . . . . . . 277 ModifyingGradientDirectionandDistribution . . . . . . . . 279 DrawinginFlashwithOnionSkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 NecktieFashions,TalkingBears,andCharacterLayers . . . . . 284 Mark’sFavoriteShortcut:Option-Drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 PlayingYourAnimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Chapter8 Managing Symbols and Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 WhyShouldICareaboutSymbols? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Okay,SoWhatIsaSymbol,andHowDoICreateOne? . . . . . 296 TransformingaSymbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 RotatingorResizingaSymbol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 CreatingaSimpleCartoonbyUsingTweening . . . . . . . . . . 320 AddingaBackgroundtoYourSimpleAnimation . . . . . . . . . 326 What’sanInstance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 ShapeTweening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 Chapter9 Libraries, Scenes, and Special Effects . . . . . . . . . . 345 NestedSymbolsor“Meta-Libraries” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 BreakingDownaCharacterintoComponentSymbols . . . . . . 347 Meta-LibraryDefined…Finally! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Lip-SynchingwithaMeta-Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 WorkingwithScenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 SpecialEffects:CreatingGlowswithFlash . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Chapter10 Preparing Your Work for Video or Web Downloads . . . 375 ABriefHistoryofDubbingHomemadeCartoonstoVideo. . . . 375 TitleSafeandActionSafeAreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 ScreenSizesandRatios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 ScreenResolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 MovieFormat:FLA,SWF,orMOV? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 ExportingasQuickTimeforVideo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 CreatingaProjector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 PossibleCross-PlatformConflicts:Fonts,inParticular. . . . . . 394 Chapter11 Jobs, Colleges, and Film Festivals . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 FindingaJob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 InterviewwithJoePeery,ASIFA-AtlantaPresident, andAnimationDirector,TurnerStudios . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 viii Contents InterviewwithBriandeTagyos,LeadAnimator,and SteveVitale,LeadAnimator,TurnerStudios. . . . . . . . . . 409 Don’tWaitforYourFairyGodmothertoAppear . . . . . . . . 412 TopFive“RealityTips”forAnimationCareers . . . . . . . . 413 Freelancer’sSecretBestFriend:Artist’s&Graphic Designer’sMarket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 CollegesandSchools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 FilmandVideoFestivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 AnimationandCartooningJobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 LetYourFingersDotheWalking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 TopFiveFreelanceBusinessTips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 InClosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434 AppendixA Recommended Reading and Viewing . . . . . . . . . . 435 RecommendedReading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 RecommendedViewing(CurrentlyAvailableonDVD). . . . . . 437 TenMost-NeededAnimatedDVDs(CurrentlyUnavailable). . . 442 AppendixB List of Suppliers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 ArtSupplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 MusicandSoundEffects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 EducationalDiscountSoftware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 RefurbishedHardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 AppendixC Flash Professional 8 Tips, Tools, and Terms . . . . . . . 450 EverythingYouEverWantedtoKnowAboutFlash ButWereAfraidtoAskFor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 ManagingSymbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 TheToolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 PersonalFavoriteTool:ThePaintbrushandItsOptions. . . . 454 AppendixD About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 ix

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