Waving Flag in AS - Video Tutorial

[Víctor Paredes]

Hi, I just made a short (2:40)video tutorial for animate waving flags.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54411/videos/Tu ... 0small.mov


PD: it's related to hair waves and animating ropes tutorials.

[GCharb]

Thanks Mate, well done and to the point!

[sbtamu]

I am having a hard time doing this with the USA flag. The stars are giving me trouble.

[funksmaname]

Stephen, the most simple solution is to move to a country with horizontal lines - try Indonesia, or maybe Hungary

j/k - for US flag, maybe use a texture fill?

Thanks Selgin.

[sbtamu]

Well here is my 1st try at it LOL,

[Fulkster]

Nicely done tutorial. Very understandable.

[Víctor Paredes]

Hi, I'm glad you like the tutorial.
Actually, you can animate more complex flags, but I wanted yo keep the tutorial as simple as possible.

On a recent animation I did this flags:


The important thing here is to group the flag in vertical segments. In the tutorial it was very simplified, each horizontal line of the flag had the same amount of points in parallel.
For complex flags, you need to imagine that sections, like this

[crsP]

You were understandable, there is no need to apologise for 'poor English'. It was a bit annoying to hear that, to be honest.

[Víctor Paredes]

You were understandable, there is no need to apologise for 'poor English'. It was a bit annoying to hear that, to be honest.

Ok, sorry, I won't do that anymore

[GCharb]

Whenever I put my voice on a video tutorial, I have peoples asking me if I am a French Canadian hockey player, as they are used to hear them on TV!

As long as you speak clearly, it is usually pretty understandable.

[bowen]

Hi, I'm glad you like the tutorial.
Actually, you can animate more complex flags, but I wanted yo keep the tutorial as simple as possible
On a recent animation I did this flags:


The important thing here is to group the flag in vertical segments. In the tutorial it was very simplified, each horizontal line of the flag had the same amount of points in parallel.
For complex flags, you need to imagine that sections, like this

I also try to do it again

[RATHAHONNI]

Greetings,played around all day with the Flag waving exercise, i'm a newjack at Animation and as i see now ,I lack many of the basic skills.The first problem i encountered was finding a flag that i could put onto the stage that did'nt fall apart or separate when i tried to apply your Tutorial.But i may be on the right track now.Watching tutorials is good but u need to have a specific project or problem for them to make any sense.To all u people who take the time to make Tutorials,thank you , still plodding along, Rathahonni

[RATHAHONNI]

Greetings,i'm still playing with flag waving exercise,When importing the image of a flag to the stage,no problem to get the image,but i can't actually make it workable,when i add points the points are on their own Layer and i can't move any part of the original flag image,the tracing tool seems to be useless.The tutorial is a good starting point but a lot is lacking for for us beginners.The only way i was able to get a workable flag of stripes was to make my own,not always possible with more difficult flags,please help.

[slowtiger]

You can't point animate an image. You need to warp with bones instead.

I've made a setup for simple use: http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/flag_image.zip (v5.6)

[EDIT] I'm so stupid: totally forgot the instructions!

To animate this bunch of bones, you only touch the topmost row of horizontal bones, with the rotate bones tool. They control everything else.

[ziggypaw]

That's fast and effective. Saves a hell lot of time. I would of tried moving the points one by one and spending a whole day doing it.