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I noticed the "Saddy Dumpington" toon has sort of a hand drawn look to it, although it probably was drawn on computer.

I got a question for any Flash animators out there: Do you ever make animations by scanning hand-drawn stuff and then sequencing them in Flash? I've been preparing to make a flash project for class and I wanted to draw it on paper, not on the computer w/ vectors (I'd probably scan the outlines for sprites and color them on computer, though).

Does anyone else do this? Are there any other flash toons that are hand drawn? I know it's a pain to do it on paper and that one of the points of flash is that you don't need paper or even a camera to make toons, but I wanted to try it and before I began production I wanted to see if annyones ever experimented w/ this.

Any feedback would be welcome.

I wouldn't do it. If you want the frame-by-frame, oook, but it's better to buy a drawing tablet, and use a program like Toon Boom Studio, which specializes in frame-by-frame animation. You can still save it in .swf format, and it makes life a lot easier.

Scanning pictures in one at a time is really only good for something like claymation.

I actually had a very similar question. Can anyone venture to guess how Saddy Dumpington was illustrated? From my limited knowledge of flash, it seems like it would be difficult to do that in flash. Someone mentioned toon boom. Can you do that in toon boom? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Author:	caucusjeke [ Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:46 pm ]
Post subject:	Flash animation question (scanning hand-drawn images)
I noticed the "Saddy Dumpington" toon has sort of a hand drawn look to it, although it probably was drawn on computer. I got a question for any Flash animators out there: Do you ever make animations by scanning hand-drawn stuff and then sequencing them in Flash? I've been preparing to make a flash project for class and I wanted to draw it on paper, not on the computer w/ vectors (I'd probably scan the outlines for sprites and color them on computer, though). Does anyone else do this? Are there any other flash toons that are hand drawn? I know it's a pain to do it on paper and that one of the points of flash is that you don't need paper or even a camera to make toons, but I wanted to try it and before I began production I wanted to see if annyones ever experimented w/ this. Any feedback would be welcome.

Author:	DanBo [ Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:25 pm ]
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I wouldn't do it. If you want the frame-by-frame, oook, but it's better to buy a drawing tablet, and use a program like Toon Boom Studio, which specializes in frame-by-frame animation. You can still save it in .swf format, and it makes life a lot easier. Scanning pictures in one at a time is really only good for something like claymation.

Author:	DESTROY US ALL! [ Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:37 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Flash animation question (scanning hand-drawn images)
caucusjeke wrote: I noticed the "Saddy Dumpington" toon has sort of a hand drawn look to it, although it probably was drawn on computer. I got a question for any Flash animators out there: Do you ever make animations by scanning hand-drawn stuff and then sequencing them in Flash? I've been preparing to make a flash project for class and I wanted to draw it on paper, not on the computer w/ vectors (I'd probably scan the outlines for sprites and color them on computer, though). Does anyone else do this? Are there any other flash toons that are hand drawn? I know it's a pain to do it on paper and that one of the points of flash is that you don't need paper or even a camera to make toons, but I wanted to try it and before I began production I wanted to see if annyones ever experimented w/ this. Any feedback would be welcome. I tried that once, ot a cool effect going on Joe The Ninja...

Author:	dvillaronga [ Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:22 pm ]
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I actually had a very similar question. Can anyone venture to guess how Saddy Dumpington was illustrated? From my limited knowledge of flash, it seems like it would be difficult to do that in flash. Someone mentioned toon boom. Can you do that in toon boom? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Author:	DESTROY US ALL! [ Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:52 pm ]
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all they needed to do was use the pencil tool to make the general outlines, they still used your basic object animation, with some not 100 per-cent opactivty in the bacjground coloring to get that water-based paints effect.

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Author:	caucusjeke [ Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:10 am ]
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DanBo wrote: I wouldn't do it. If you want the frame-by-frame, oook, but it's better to buy a drawing tablet, and use a program like Toon Boom Studio, which specializes in frame-by-frame animation. You can still save it in .swf format, and it makes life a lot easier. Scanning pictures in one at a time is really only good for something like claymation. Any recommendations on a drawing tablet? I got a Mac equipped w/ Flash, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Do I really need toon boom if I have those programs, or can I use Flash with a tablet? Any info would be appreciated. Thx.

Author:	DanBo [ Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:46 am ]
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I personally don't own a tablet because the whole purpose of Flash is to make it simpler to create animation. However, when doing initiial drawings, as the Chapman's did, it would make drawing them more accurate to your initial plans. However, the Chaps are extremely adept at using tweens, and using tweens in an effective way makes animations look smoother and convey motion better. I'd stick with tweens over fxf. Mac's probably have more drawing tablets, anyway, because of the nature of its OS and how it works with graphics files. They usually start around $120 total.

Author:	Snailmail [ Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:29 am ]
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dvillaronga wrote: I actually had a very similar question. Can anyone venture to guess how Saddy Dumpington was illustrated? From my limited knowledge of flash, it seems like it would be difficult to do that in flash. Someone mentioned toon boom. Can you do that in toon boom? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Naw that was made in flash, they just used lighter and darker colors, and they changed the alpha.

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