This is a project idea i took up to hopefully keep me a little busy and not bored for my summer vacation. i plan on animating this in AS although i'm getting pretty frustrated trying to figure out how this whole thing works. ( only used traditional method animation until now) i'm sure with some more...

Wow thanks you guys, this has been the most informative, non-newb hating forum i've ever been on

have you ever used gimp to import your character into AS?

so i just looked at photoshop.. and buying it is $600 i'm only 16, so i definitely don't have that kinda cash just laying around :| know any other software that might help me? or a place to download photoshop for free? like bit torrent? the only image editing software i have on my computer at the mo...

so i just got AS today
its really awesome, i like it. but i can't import my character without a white box background around it on top of my other background. anyone know how to fix this?

alright, that shouldn't be a problem.
i do have another question after researching a bit.. exactly how do the "bones" work? do you create a character, import it and then just add the bones for movement or what?

I just ordered AS on saturday, it hasn't came in yet but i have one short question.

can you scan in your own background with your own drawn animation still showing up on that background? pretty much like traditonal 2D animation?

thanks, can't wait to try AS out

yea 5 to 10 minutes is quite a lot and is expensive. for 10 minutes it'd take roughly 14,400 frames of animation. from what i've seen the usual price per frame is $0.15. so you're looking at $2160 just for all the animation, not including the coloring and backgrounds... the cheapest you could go i t...