Expert: Mike Dixon - 6/30/2009

Question
Ive drawn a couple of characters in sequence, scanned them in using photoshop, and made each individual picture into jpegs.
I pretested the animation using a pencil test program called Monkeyjam and the movement looks good. Id like to make a flash animation using these jpegs i made in photoshop but dont have a clue how to put them into flash or if this would even work. Can you help mee?

Answer
I am sure there is a program that can export animations to flash, search around online for character animation and flash.

In flash the way to do this would be to trace your jpegs using the vector line tool, then use timeline based shape tweens to move between keyframes. you can also experiment witht he trace bitmap feature to convert imported jpegs and photoshop files into vectors.


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