Rasheed, Yes, in fact the showed samples are exactly what I had in mind at first place (the cartoon shading). About to open hand of technology and pick up a pencil, I am really not the guy for that, since I have not this kind of skills. As I have told here a few times, I am not a cartoonist at heart...

Hi, I just figured out something that made me soooo sad. As you can imagine, the old Flash problem. When exporting an animation with shade effects to SWF format, guess what: no effects. Of course, I couldnt expect that it would be different, since Flash have not these effects. Beside, I stayed playi...

Rasheed wrote:Then there is, of course, the fabulous method that Sang820 used

Yep, fabulous is the term. However this is too much for me since I think that you must be a cartoonist by nature and know all theory about shades and have a special eye for volume to do things like that!

Hi Rhoel, You can also use a bitmap image as a fill - I used a graduated fill image to simulate light falling on mechanical objects ... the result was like 3D. I am avoiding to use bitmaps because it will be exported to SWF format, and I have size limitations, etc, anyway, this is a LONG story! Ther...

When you create a shape style (the style palette) there are two drop down menus for fill effects; Effect 1 and Effect 2. These are very powerful. One of them is called "Shaded". It allows you to specify a shaded color, an offset in pixels (I'm guessing) and the direction. I use this on ne...

Hello, Here I am again. As you well know, I am not a cartoonist then I am always in search of some miraculous tools to help to pretend I can draw! I was wondering if there is any kind of tool to help to apply shade effects into 2D plain colour shapes, like the ones we usually find in mangas. I am no...

Hi, I understand. The fact is that I was looking for the "exposed controls" that doesnt exists in AS. Instead, I should add more nodes. This is just a different approach, although I will need to acostumate with that since even CorelDraw, Illustrator and Flash (that I am more comfortable to...

Hello Alonso, Have you tried ordering directly through the e-frontier site? Otherwise, what rylleman said - contact e-frontier. They say on their Web Store FAQs page : Do you ship to my country? We ship to all countries except those with trade sanctions in place with the United States and a few cou...

Dear Mike, I just apologized about all stupid things I have told about e-Frontier in the mentioned thread and was really well done that you deleted it. To demonstrate my sincere regreat and left my trully apologizes, I started a new thread at: http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6974 Abo...

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Hello everybody, I am trying to learn some basics about node editing in AS, but there is something that is bugging me. I was trying to move (or translate) a curve node in order to deform the curve segment binded to it. for that I am trying to use the "Curvature" tool, but it is not working...

Hey, thanks for everybody! As far as I could understand, in case of 2D animations using tools like AS, I will notice too much more difference if I upgrade my PC to a more power CPU then. I use an Athlon XP 1.4 Ghz with 512MB RAM, and the processment and programs working is not too bad, unless when I...

Hi, I am thinking if worthes to spend some bucks to put an OpenGL supported card for 2D animation, because I readed somewhere that it will just make difference if I am rendering 3D things. Is it true? Beside that, I have 2 cards in my computer (2 monitors - 19" and 17") and I was thinking ...

Hi, I found a very handy, cheap and easy-to-use software called Fantamorph. Take a look at: http://www.fantamorph.com/. Take a look in this cool animation starting from just 5 pictures: http://www.fantamorph.com/samples.php?ixSample=5 Maybe it's not what you are looking for, but it's not bad to know...