We are going to learn how to
animate in this tutorial and how to make something like this :
First lets make a new document
and change its size to 600 by widht and 300 by height.
We should have a blank white
document with the size of 600 x 300 now,lets start drawing our charecter
First draw his body choose the
body
Then right click on the body and
choose convert to symbol
and choose `Graphic` and click
OK
and then rename the layer the
body is on to `Body` on the timeline.
Create a new layer by clicking
on `Insert Layer` and rename it to `Eyes`
Draw the eyes on the new created
layer and convert it to symbol and pick graphic again.
Create a new layer call it
`Mouth` and put it between `Body` and `Eyes`
Draw the mouth on it and convert
it to graphic
Create a new layer call it
`Hair` put it over all the layers
Draw the hair on it and convert
it to graphic
Create a new layer call it `Hand
left` and put it over all other layers
Draw the hand on the new created
layer and convert it to graphic
Create a new layer called `Hand
Right` put it UNDER all other layers
and copy paste the hand on the
new created layer
We have our charecter made now
time to animate it. You could have basically made some another charecter using
the same way.
We got our layers on the
timeline and keyframes on the first frame of every layer. Make new keyframes on
everylayers 5th frame
by choosing all layers 5th frame
at the same time and right clicking and choosing instert keyframe
We want to make our charecter
jump right?We gotta move our charecters position up and open his hands on the
second frame
so basically first frame is :
and on the second frame it will
be
see we moved it up transformed
the body to a bit right opened up the hands and moved them up near the head
its time for us to give a motion
tween
Choose all the frames in the
timeline
and right click and then pick
insert motion tween while the layers are chosen
now the layers should look like
this :
Notice between keyframe 1 and
keyframe 2 the image transports from 1 to 2 right?
We now have something like this:
Notice it just jumps and goes
back to start without droppping on ground?Time to add other parts
We have 5 frames and 2 keyframes
inside them now,time to create new keyframes. Choose 8th frame on every layer
and create new keyframe on all
of them
and then right click and choose
crete motion tween so they look like this
and now we are gonna change our
charecters movements again!
in the previous frame it looked
like :
move the parts down so it looks
like
what we did? moved our charecter
down transfered his face a bit up and pulled the hands down so it goes back to
the ground
ok if we are done with the
moving we should have an animation like this:
still not done, it looks like
its hitting himself and he gets to ground but doesnt go back to to place where
he started!
Ok now choose all the keyframes
on the first frame
right click and pick `copy
frames`
and then choose all the layers
in 11th frame
and while they are choosen right
click and choose `paste frames`
it should be done now and the
timeline should look like this
and our charecter should move
like thiss
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial
