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Curently i work with flash, and i looking for something more dedicate to Character animation. If there is one.

My first question is:
can AS do this actions:
- motion tweens and shape tweens.
- motion editor
- copy kinematics
- copy layer and paste between files

Motion tweens and shape tweens
Yes. It's not exactly as Flash or other software, but AS tween options are better and more controllable, in my opinion.

Motion editor
Yes. You can control the movement in graph mode, having different types of interpolations and bezier handles.

Copy kinematics
If I understand well, yes.
You can copy and past the entire rig or any part of it to any other character. Also, if characters share the same rig structure, you can copy and paste bone keyframes between them.

Copy and paste layer between files
Yes.

thanks, for your answer

Do you believe that there are specific advantages AS over flash?
I mean, i know they have better manipulation over image, and they use it on 'Song of the Sea' for the turtle.
Any other advantage?

pagou wrote:thanks, for your answer

Do you believe that there are specific advantages AS over flash?
I mean, i know they have better manipulation over image, and they use it on 'Song of the Sea' for the turtle.
Any other advantage?

I'm not impartial: I have been using Anime Studio for more than ten years and now I work at Smith Micro.
Saying that, for animation Anime Studio is much better than Flash. There are many advantages and I couldn't list them here, but maybe this videos I worked on could help a little, specially the "behind the scenes", which (very) quickly shows the rigging and animation process from begging to end:

I've never seen this behind-the-scenes video before. I wish had seen it earlier--the drawing workflow was very interesting to me.

I think I've been drawing things the 'hard' way in ASP. I've been creating vector elements point-by-point, mostly in sequence around the contour of each piece--a method that my wrist is not very happy about.

In the video, it seems much faster to block out the general shape, and then go back to work on the details. It appears there are fewer tiny repetitive movements of the mouse, so perhaps this approach may be less stressful on the wrist?

I'll have to try it out at work today. I would love to see more drawing technique and workflow videos in the future, explaining the process (what the artist is thinking, which hotkeys are being pressed, etc.,).

Thanks for sharing the video Victor.

G.

did i saw wright: i can set up a 3d environment!!!
Can i run he camera in a 3d pah like a 3d program?

It`s been awhile since we had here this kind of discovery and enjoyment! ,)
*Sorry, I kept all the t`s in my sentence ,)))))

if i own Ado.e i want be there, or working in all the aspect of project. So, no i wasn't offended.
More appropriate tools is always welcome.
Also is nice to know that there is alternatives products and i am no bound to a company.

BUT i don't see 2 select tools. That going to make me suffer, i know it.

pagou wrote:did i saw wright: i can set up a 3d environment!!!
Can i run he camera in a 3d pah like a 3d program?

Yes, ASP has a real 3D camera and working environment. Here's a small project my partner and I created early this year that uses the 3D environment for effect in nearly every scene.

HLF Animated Titles

G.

am shocked by the number of people that work for this projects.
Its amazing that you are able to keep up with all this people!

I only designed, storyboarded and created the titles animation. The rest of the people in the credits were involved with the live action or visual fx parts or the film, which isn't shown in this clip. The only people I worked with directly was my partner Alisa, the director of the live action film, the producer and the editor.

Most of the time it was just me working away on a laptop in a local diner or the public library.

G.

pagou wrote:thanks, for your answer

Do you believe that there are specific advantages AS over flash?
I mean, i know they have better manipulation over image, and they use it on 'Song of the Sea' for the turtle.
Any other advantage?

If your asking what program is better?

You have to look at the methods of how your animating. Because there are basic 3 types of 2d animation. Rig, morphing and Frame by frame. Anime Studio is better at rig and morphing. Flash is better at Frame by fame. Anime Studio just added Frame by frame, and for simple animation it is OK. But Flash has a better tool set to do Frame by frame.
Flash has rig, but no morphing to speak of. A Flash rig will be just a puppet where Anime Studio will let you fix joints and change the rig behavior if needed. Only Toonboom will also do this with deformers.

Here is an example of morphing animation.


Dale

I create pure vector files, so am working with Ring (but i just learn that has a specific name), and from the videos i saw, in this field AS its superior than flash.

I download a demo and AS is looking more suitable than flash for character animation, but ...

- my personal opinion is the UI needs a redesign.
- my project has about 200 elements organized in layers, designed in Illustrator. I dont believe that i had to export them in V.8. Am i doing something wrong?

pagou wrote:I download a demo and AS is looking more suitable than flash for character animation, but ...

- my personal opinion is the UI needs a redesign.
- my project has about 200 elements organized in layers, designed in Illustrator. I dont believe that i had to export them in V.8. Am i doing something wrong?

No. The programming team is very small. They haven't bother to try to keep up with each version of Illustrator.
As far as the UI, I agree. The biggest is styles. Because you can have a style and some times the only feed back is the name of the style.

AS doesn't work like other software. It's not like knowing Photoshop, so then you know gimp and every other drawing program. AS uses center line vector, almost all other vector programs do not.

Dale