Re: FLASH: Animation

[Michael Greenberg]

Moho is actually one of the coolest tools I have seen for the BeOS. Also one

of the most underrated programs for the BeOS.


Any other Moho users on the list? I don't use it much anymore. Time to hop

back on my Be box for a bit:)


Michael



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From: "Michael@BTW" <mplistbigtimeweb [dot] com>

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Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:56:33 -0700

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Animation

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> From my reading of this your dealing with Flash's method of controlling

> objects in the timeline rather than drawing techniques? In that case, yeah,

> Flash is pretty lame at animating multiple connected objects (ie standard

> child-parent animation as seen in most other animation programs). If that is

> the case, I'd take a look at Adobe's Livemotion and/or Lostmarble's Moho

> (http://www.lostmarble.com/moho.html), both of which allow for more standard

> animation techniques (hierarchical timeline, moho even has bones!) and

> output to swf.

> 

> Hopefully, child-parent object linking, joints, and the ability to aninmate

> childed objects on the main timeline will be added to F5, I've requested it

> anyway...

> 

>> hey- i'm pretty new on the message board, but I was

>> wondering if someone could give me a couple hints on how to

>> animate figures, specifically, humanoids with 2 legs, 2

>> arms. i've been converting eyes/leg/leg/arm/arm/head/torso

>> to symbols, but then if i want motion tweens it takes *so*

>> many layers and so many keyframes just to get a small

>> animation that i'm sure there has to be a better way.  so,

>> if anyone could help me out, i'd really be appreciative.  I

>> know this is kind've beneath the level of most of you guys,

>> but I don't know any other way to learn it.

>> thanks in advance,

>> Ellis Creel

>> 

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> Michael Penney

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> BigTimeWeb.Com

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