Cartoon Animation Tutorial

Summary 18 lessons index

Lesson Seventeen Example 2 flying blue bird

French Version download all the (.fla)s

choose a lesson index introduction download the flash movie lesson 1 open the flash movie lesson 2 create a new layer lesson 3 drawing straight lines lesson 4 modify the straight lines lesson 5 trace the head and the body lesson 6 trace the eyes lesson 7 repositioning the body lesson 8 trace the legs lesson 9 smooth the lines lesson 10 change layer lesson 11 trace the pupils lesson 12 positioning the legs lesson 13 switch on to mode movie lesson 14 positioning the animation lesson 15 create the final animation lesson 16 example 1 walking Kohlrabi lesson 17 example 2 flying blue bird lesson 18 import and trace bitmap

You will find magnificent Preston Blair 's Animated Gifs animation models to import into Flash and create your own animations in the Preston Blair Gif Gallery

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First thing to do :

Download the Folder " bluebirdie.zip or sit"
which holds the following
Flash Movies :



bluebirdie00.fla and .swf

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bluebirdie01.fla and .swf

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bluebirdie02.fla and .swf

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How ?

Simply
by Clicking one of those links below :
The compressed folder will be downloaded
on your Hard Disk.
In order to decompress it
You must have ZipIt ou StuffIt installed.

On PC and Windows Download : bluebirdie.zip (108 Ko)

On Mac Download : bluebirdie.sit (100 Ko)

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Once your (.fla)s decompressed...

1. Open the first one :
bluebidie00.fla
in Flash.

2. Open your Library by Clicking on Window
then on Library.



3. Then in Library,
open animation called
flying blue bird...

You will see two layers :

The Layer 1 containing
the fly of bluebirdie.gif
is 3 KeyFrames long.

The Layer 2
which lays above,
contains 3 Empty Frames.
Here you can create
three KeyFrames on which you can
do the tracing for
the fly of your new
personnal flying blue birdie.

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Or...
you can open the second one :
bluebirdie01.fla

1. Don't open the Library yet.
On the Scene
you can see two Layers.

On Layer 1,
all the KeyFrames
of the bluebird.gif
have been bitmapped (*)
and have been put in OutLine Mode.

On Layer 2,
you can see that all the Images
of the blue birdie's fly
can be traced
using the brush tool
with the help of a Wacom tablet
or with the mouse.

2. In the Library,
open then
the flying blue bird finished

I just deleted Layer 1 and...

Aaaargh !
I deleted
the wrong Layer !

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Not a problem...
open the third one :
bluebirdie02.fla

1. On the Scene,
you can one unique Layer :
The Layer 2...
This time, I have deleted the right Layer.

Whew !

You can enjoy doing what you want with all that stuff
until you can download
the next example :

The animation of the white bird traced
upon another Animated Gif
also found on the Net...

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NOTE : I have found on FlashKit a small Flash Movie animating a digging pirat,
which seems to have been made on the same principle :
tracing on an animated gif...

pirate.gif

To Download the Flash Movie (.swf) and his work copy (.fla). you have to go on Flashkit Adress : http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Animations/ Vector_Animations/People/Pirate-Sargon-8547/index.php

Pirate-Sargon-8547.swf

You can download the Flash Movie (.swf) and his .fla
on FlashKit at this adress :
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Animations/Vector_Animations/People/Pirate-Sargon-8547/index.php

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(*)
Hey !
WAIT A MINUTE !
What is that, to bitmap ?

An how did you put those images of bluebirdie.gif in Flash ?

Well, for those who want to know
how to bitmap and how to import
with not too much overwork

they can check the next lesson :

lesson eighteen

return to lesson sixteen