Rigging Characters ready to Animate in Flash

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[@turetzeddie000]

In the beginning, there was a layer called Petey (rough sketch of Petey) at 7:02, he turned that layer into Graphic and named it Peteyfull, inside that layer, he drew torso, arms, legs, head etc. Outside Petey layer, he was able to move Petey because body parts were all in one layer.

[@edwingomez7531]

Good stuff I have been working with Flash since its MX days and I really like your breakdown. Thanks again.

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[@BrodiesVlogs]

How do you get it to go into having to double click the graphic to view all the layers that makes the graphic up? When I convert loads of graphics to 1 graphic it stays as one layer but double clicking on it singles out each graphic but they are all viewed as one layer

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[@Yaoiloverel]

I never thought of the torso as the core in doing a character before. But I guess your right. I start with the head. But if the torso looks good I am always willing to resize the head to fit the torso. Thanks for these tutorials. I always find helpful info in your tutorials even though I don't use flash. I'm a Anime Studio 9 user. But you give great info that helps me out. Keep up the great tutorials and other vid's.

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[@hoarderofhermits]

Oh dang, I didn’t know that you made a video on this :o

[@grimace9670]

I never thought I’d end up seeing this person carve a statue with a chainsaw

[@Mheramb]

Hey Jazza! Love your videos! I'm having a little trouble with how I should rig my chars. I'm trying to do like you do, so eyes, nose, mouth goes on a head graphic, which then goes on a character graphic. If I lip sync the mouth inside the head graphic, but I've already animated the motion of the head, everytime a keyframe is played on the character graphic, the lip sync animation inside resets instead of continuing. Im using Adobe Animate CC, and ive tried playing with the looping options, but maybe I'm just not getting how the animating inside graphics works.?

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very good tutorial man...

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it's irritating how good you are.

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What about his comments irritating? Is it big, is it small?

[@Vleaso]

I only see one grammatical error, and it's a very small one that's hard to notice. I don't why you find it irritating, but okay.

[@Vleaso]

And besides, it's 2 years old.

[@itarfer]

You're 2 years old.

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WOW IT'S BEEN 6 YEARS NOW

[@roshanpatel4216]

Thank you for tutorial

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love it

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WOW!!! amazing!!! you rock!!!

[@thischannelhasaclevername5481]

That background music is strangely soothing

[@oxblubxo]

very helpful thanks :)

[@FunkerMashups]

can you bring a character into another scene? When I copy the base symbol of the character, all the nested symbols are still linked. for example, If I duplicate the character and edit the nested mouth symbol, the mouth will change on both the original and the duplicate. How can I start fresh without having to duplicate every single nested symbol of the character?

[@TechKeen]

Awesome

[@noushadnizarali8166]

when you change any object into symbol by rigth clickingand save as graphis symbol so after that you double click on it and work in many layers

[@Innerwave661]

So cool

[@erniestreet9544]

Jazza, when you import an audio clip onto the main time line, do you also import the same audio clip into each character symbol so that the same audio clip is visible when you animate a character within it's symbol? Or will the audio on the main time line show itself in each character symbol?

[@financialfrontierr]

SOOOOOO! Helpful

[@btafbm]

wait once you get to the step at the end how do you move every symbol individually within the stage? or do you actually have to edit the symbol itself. For example create a wave motion

[@nsarjun9605]

😍thanku so much....

[@harasen_haras5]

I should've watched this video before I started working on my own animation. I've copied my folder with layers in it, and I've saved all the layers as movie clip files. Well, I know what to do when making the next scene for my animation now. XD

[@hazim-kt5rv]

may i ask how did you draw the three character did you turn into a graphic ? where did you draw it ? from the rough sketch

[@andrewarrondo1253]

Sorry if you've answered this before, What is the benefit of creating the characters in Flash instead of Illustrator then bringing them into Flash?

[@MisterDonPatch]

Illustrator Vectors look nicer than flash drawings. That's about the only true benefit.

[@juliahinez]

Hey, what does it mean when your pivot point won't stay where you moved it? I mean it pops back into the center? [How do i get the pivot point to stay moved?] Thanks!

[@nazortaite43]

you da man thanks bro

[@MLKennedy02]

How do you make your lines so smooth? Is it like when you create straight lines you press shift? Or is it just how you draw?

[@Walingergames]

How do you get that colour picker? Mine is different and much harder to use. If it helps I use cs6 and the default picker.

[@pepelemacho]

Lol I do "the remember the zoom thing" too for the brush size I'm almost sure there must be a better way haha but that's how we learned :P

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very very good my ..........you are a Pro.....

[@MrBaffaCake]

I have "CTRL+Z" programmed into my Wacom pen's bottom button. Hahaha Great tutorials, by the way!

[@friskyobriskey4322]

Does anyone know how to create a rig with multiple head angles? I'm getting stuck there

[@Crush9allthetime]

You're mascot character of yourself should have a part in this animation :b

[@dahamstudio1169]

Hi Jazza! I lovve your videos plz answer my question I'm not very good at drawing in flash as much as I am in illustrator so Im wondering if there's any way to import illustrator files to flash and arrange the cartoon body parts into symbols inside each other? Thank you!

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After you're done brushing up with toon boom.. Please upload the tutorials about it too!! :p

[@GarrettStelly]

great music

[@4chonVidya]

i'm so confused about how symobols fit into all this, when you click on them you get like...another timeline to animate, how the shit does it fit in to the main thing

[@tylerthemaker8984]

when i double click a part (Symbol) it always dissepears.. please help

[@lunathehuman6169]

Jazza if I have a flower on my character would that go with bangs glasses or on a new layer on top of it all

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[@bibipictures554]

Can I just say: Petey reminds me of Brainy Brian from Horrid Henry. ~So first of all Thanks for the nostalgia, ~ but most importantly thanks for this tutorial, so simple, so clear, awesome.

[@jnmacneil]

lol Petey full: pitiful

[@Maknaru2]

how did you disigned the characters? ^^

[@chikolopez7221]

Hey Jazza, I was wondering how you keep the mouth brows eyes pupils and Head base together? to me they look like separate pieces and yet as you move the head they are all together???????? please help.

[@PatheticDedicated]

great job man, but tell me, how long it takes to do an animation of this?

[@yair1321]

what the version of flash are you working?

[@pixelatedwarrior8990]

How do you do the thing where you can outline your other layer exactly? (shown at around eleven mins)

[@deadshades4546]

+Pixelated Warrior It is called Wireframing. Clicking on the square box in the Layers panel.

[@AmericanAnt]

I have Flash CS 5.5 and about a day ago, when I edit in place a symbol, the background and other elements not in that symbol do not dim.

[@yuvzohar]

Hi , Great tutorials! Can you please share some information on the audio equipment your using for recording the characters voices? (mic type,audio interface etc..) thanks

[@smokeyadri]

Yuval Zohar program - audicity

[@UConceptPublishing]

I would love to see these tutorials in Toon Boom.

[@robosmith8513]

how do you "pop in and out of those layer things?

[@AlonElkin]

how did you do the cues i cant find how to

[@Tylerl128]

what about the characters reflections on the floor?

[@ginmalico6799]

Sweet twenty third comment i like your art Jazza and also could you do more vids on this kind of thing like the order of character creation and the layers and stuff.

[@Nicknir]

how much time did you spend doing this animation?!

[@Adryyy]

17 hours :D

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[@ease1appears]

Do you draw the background in adobe flash as well or some other software?

[@Vleaso]

Adobe Flash. He did a video on it.

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Kiwi :)

[@Silentwolf10uk]

hey jazza whats the link to the program cuze i cant find it

[@CackleCake]

sometimes I can't save for some reason so I copy everything and paste in a new file labeled "(file name)FIX" so I know witch one to load :)

[@yoshistover5881]

How would a person go about doing complicated animations (like anime level animations) or is that impossible (or very hard) for one person alone?

[@Bownimations01]

Yoshi Stover Not impossible, just extremely hard for more of patience wise. An anime level of animation (assuming length is the same, it's done in frame-by frame, and the complexity is the same) it could take one person a few years. Not sure if you like MLP, but a new fan animation came out that was animated by one guy. They had help with the backgrounds, editing, etc. but it still took them 2.5 years to make an 8 minute animation, simply because there was only one animator. Another animation, non-MLP related, is an animation to Keisha's Die Young and took two years with one animator, who had once more had help with backgrounds and coloring and such, but both are frame-by-frame, hand-drawn, and incredibly smooth animations done by experienced animators. If you are just starting out, you may not make the animations as smooth at first, since, as you can see that's very time consuming. You may make the keyframes then one or two in-between frames between those main keyframes, instead of filling the in-betweens with in-betweens, making a smoother animation. My suggestion would probably shorten the episodes to roughly around 5 minutes or so. Then slowly make episodes longer as you improve, and more time opens up. Because you *will* need that time. I, myself, am going to be animating my own series, but I'm trying to get as much help as possible. I am writing the episodes with a group of other people, I am asking close friends to help me with things such as towns and such, I'm asking friends for maps or backgrounds, I'm gathering voice actors, etc. The only thing I will be doing is animating and creating the models for characters. I will also be putting everything together, but that's a given. Even with all of this help, I still have time constraints and so I've been working on it whenever free. I thought about doing frame-by- frame or puppet animating, and I'll leaning more towards frame-by-frame so I know this is going to take me a while. I need to set aside that time to work on this, and I need to keep the episodes short so it's a lesser load to do.

[@yoshistover5881]

Thanks for the explanation.

[@Ham549]

Well if you are foing first few seasons of Pokémon anime look just use Power Point.

[@yoshistover5881]

Sorry, what do you mean by that?

[@Ham549]

I mean the first few seasons of Pokémon were horribly animated.

[@CropDudia480p]

do you make every thing a "GRAPHIC"?

[@Jazza]

no, more often in animations than games though

[@BamboLord]

How the hell do you stand keeping the smoothing at 50?