Book description
Part animation guide, part Flash manual, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning provides a practical primer on classic, hand-drawn 2D screen animation as well as an introduction to using Flash for creating your own cartoons. Section I discusses the terms and techniques of hand-drawn animation, character design, and storyboards, while Section II covers scanning, digitizing your artwork into Flash, and setting up scenes.
Topics include how to animate a walk cycle; recording and editing dialogue, sound effects, and music; how to use recyclable symbols to make the animation process more efficient; preparing your work for video or web download.
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
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Section I DRAWING AND THEAND THE ANIMATION PROCESS
- Chapter 1 Introduction to The Art of Flash Animation
- Chapter 2 Learning to Draw: Tools and Tips
- Chapter 3 Thumbnails, Storyboards, and Layout
- Chapter 4 Soundtracks and… What ’s an Animatic?
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Chapter 5 An Actor with a Pencil… Um, Pixel
- A Few Words on Acting
- Comedy vs. Tragedy: The Power of Sympathy
- Animation vs. Illustrated Radio
- Suspension of Disbelief
- Line of Action and Silhouettes
- All in the Eyes… Eyelids… or Eyebrows?
- Read My Lips… The Importance of Lip Synch
- Three Methods of Animation
- Closing Thoughts on Acting with Pencils and Pixels
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Section II Using Flash to Animate Your Drawings
- Chapter 6 First Peek inside Flash
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Chapter 7 Inking, Scanning, and Tablets
- Drawing with the… Mouse?
- Oh, for Crying Out Loud… Buy a Wacom Already!
- The Inking and Scanning Approach
- Importing Art into Flash
- Setting Your Stage
- Document Properties
- Trace Bitmap
- Toolbox Basics
- Gradients with the Paintbucket Tool
- Drawing in Flash with Onion Skin
- Necktie Fashions, Talking Bears, and Character Layers
- Mark’s Favorite Shortcut: Option-Drag
- Playing Your Animation
- Chapter 8 Managing Symbols and Scenes
- Chapter 9 Libraries, Scenes, and Special Effects
- Chapter 10 Preparing Your Work for Video or Web Downloads
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Chapter 11 Jobs, Colleges, and Film Festivals
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Finding a Job
- Interview with Joe Peery, ASIFA-Atlanta President, and Animation Director, Turner Studios
- Interview with Brian de Tagyos, Lead Animator, and Steve Vitale, Lead Animator, Turner Studios
- Don’t Wait for Your Fairy Godmother to Appear
- Top Five “Reality Tips” for Animation Careers
- Freelancer’s Secret Best Friend: Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market
- Colleges and Schools
- Film and Video Festivals
- Animation and Cartooning Jobs
- In Closing
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Finding a Job
- Appendix A Recommended Reading and Viewing
- Appendix B List of Suppliers
- Appendix C Flash Professional 8 Tips, Tools, and Terms
- Appendix D About the AuthorAbout the Author
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2007
- Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
- ISBN: 9781449613181
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