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Need help with animation - Flash??

thatguywhojuggles

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I have been struggling with this problem for a long time and I don't seem to know where to turn. So I thought I would ask some of the brilliant minds here.

I need to make an animation for a song with the bouncing red ball that bounces over the words as the song goes along. I've tried this with Flash MX. It works great while in preview mode. But then as I export it to a Flash movie file the timing of the red ball and the music gets out of sync. The timing messes up even more when I try to convert the flash movie to an AVI or MPEG (so I can burn to DVD.)

I've tried just about everything.

Does anyone know of some easy to use animation program that would do this for me? (I miss ol' Autodesk Animator!) Or is Flash the one I should be using, and I'm just not doing it right?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
 
69dodge said:
http://www.flash-video-mx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1981&sid=d777f56a3264b1a01ed70f653ee540b6 ?
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Yeah, I've tried a variety of frame rates. And sometimes I can even get the exported flash movie to be fairly close to what I want. Then the problem is converting it to an AVI or MPEG file for DVD burning. In that final conversion I run into the problem once again.

What I need to find is a simple (easy learning curve) animation program that will export to AVI directly.
 
The Flash-video-mx forums is a good place to get started for help with flash. But I think the persons who can help you most with putting together specifically a music video are Shmorky and Qwilman, of http://www.somethingawful.com/shmorky/ . Take a gander through the "flash tub" there, especially the "playset" entries. Shmorky is the best animator and puts together the drawings they work with, but Qwilman is an artist for putting it all together to music. His best two features are from the Karnov playset and the Super Mario playset.

If you want to seriously get into making flash cartoons, it would definitely pay off to make friends at the somethingAwful forums, and even get a gold account for Newgrounds.com and make friends on that forum.
 
Aerik said:
The Flash-video-mx forums is a good place to get started for help with flash. But I think the persons who can help you most with putting together specifically a music video are Shmorky and Qwilman, of http://www.somethingawful.com/shmorky/ . Take a gander through the "flash tub" there, especially the "playset" entries. Shmorky is the best animator and puts together the drawings they work with, but Qwilman is an artist for putting it all together to music. His best two features are from the Karnov playset and the Super Mario playset.

If you want to seriously get into making flash cartoons, it would definitely pay off to make friends at the somethingAwful forums, and even get a gold account for Newgrounds.com and make friends on that forum.
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Do you know these guys? I'd hate to pay for access to a forum only to later discover they won't help me out.

I'm still hoping someone can come up with a non-flash solution to animation.
 
Well, based on the reviews I see even on good flash animations, the Newgrounds forums is crammed with a lot of loquacious douche bags who use pathetic "leet speak" all day long. It's such an ad-driven website anyways that I do not see why they require you to pay for a gold account to their forums, so it may turn out to be a waste of your money in the long run. But many great animators from across the web submit content there and have membership. The guy who makes "Neurotically Yours" at http://www.illwillpress.com sets up shop there, and so does the creator of the great "Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom" series (http://www.videogamesdc.com/ ). Shmorky of SomethingAwfu.coml has even dropped off some things there. You'll find stuff and authors at NewGrounds from all sorts of sites, like albinoblacksheep.com, razoric.com, Jeremy Lokken of rainbowanimations.com and more. The Audio Portal at Newgrounds is also a hub for artists at Vgmix.com and ocremix.org. Some features at NewGrounds are even collaborations (they call them collab's), so you know that forum members actively share content, files, ideas, and code with one another.

All I can say is that you'll get out of Newgrounds what effort you put into it. It's an animation networking hub that's been there since Flash was in its infancy.
 
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