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I wish the brothers chaps had some video showing them animating a scene from one of the toons or something. it would be interesting to see them animating. I'm trying to learn, and it seems that what they do is impossible.

I've thought that too. They've said the reason they haven't done anything like that is that they think it would be too boring, but I for one would find it fascinating.

Classic tweens, looping library symbols and clippin' masks.

Yeah, I can see why they'd think it would be boring, they'd just be rotating limbs and popping up contexual menu's all over the place since animating is probably second nature to them at this point.

But actually learning Flash is fascinating, it's easy to animate objects, but it's so easy to get lost or screw up as a rookie. And with so many objects floating around in a full fledged animation, some of which are running at the same time, it can get confusing.

Anything narrated by Strong Bad would be interesting.

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The trick for the Chaps (or anyone) is to take the long, sometimes tedious process and edit it into an informative and interesting how-to. No easy task, for sure.

I know, they have just built up their skill at animating over time. The simple effects are all you need to make animation look good; Flash has a lot of new special effects that if not used right, look really stupid. (that seems to be what Powered by The Cheat is a parody of.) I wasn't trying to make what they do seem easy. But the techniques that they use are simple to learn (just hard to make look right in an animation.)

Maybe they'll do tutorials someday.

Facinating...

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I've seen that, actually. Though I don't do any animating, so while it was interesting it wasn't really useful at all to me. Granted, a video would be far more useful, but the write up has the basics, and there is the audio of it floating around out there.

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