Under the guidance of an award-winning, professional animator, you can learn the basic principles and fundamentals of Flash tools and techniques to create your own cartoons with great looking characters. Courses in drawing and animation are recorded as video lessons with assignments given afterwards to apply the knowledge you learn. As you build your skills, you'll be amazed at how your Flash animation improves!
" I have been involved with Flash back when it was called SmartSketch ( Non-Animation ) your programs have helped me to understand how it is use for animation." - Dominick Racano
"You have an easy style of teaching and I felt as if I were looking over your shoulder on a project. The notes are an excellent idea and add another dimension to the lessons." - Jay Worthington
"I have definitely seen my knowledge of Flash improve. I have been using Flash for at least four years now, and I didn't originally think I was going to have much to benefit from the course, but there have been several little things that have made a significant difference in my abilities." - Breanne Derby
The purpose of the Beginner course is to help you learn the basics of using the Flash program and become familiar with it's functions. At the end of the course you will be ready to move on to the Drawing and Animation courses! This course will teach you to:
- Understand the Flash working environment.
- Have a working knowledge of all the Flash tools and their functions.
- Understand how to create key frame animation using the Timeline.
- Understand the difference between "shape" and "motion" tweening.
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- Gain a solid understanding of different symbol types and when to use them.
- Create a "motion guide" and animate an object attached to it.
- Learn how to create "Masks" to only reveal certain parts of objects.
- Understand all of the text options and create animated text.
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- Incorporate audio and learn how to edit it within Flash.
- Gain a knowledge of Flash's action script code.
- Control playback of animations and open URL's using code.
- Understand different export settings for animations and static images.
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*Course includes detailed notes for every lesson in PDF format. Perfect for printing out and using as a reference!
Sample images from each lesson. Click on thumbnail for larger image.
"The beginner course was very nice, as things like symbols, the working space and the difference between Movie Clips and Graphic Symbols were excellently explained. These are aspects which are vital to understand in order to work with Flash."
-Havard Krovel-Velle
The purpose of the drawing course is to help you improve your drawing skills and provide you with your own character in multiple views, fully colored and assembled to be ready for animation. This course will teach you to:
- Use simple shapes to create the male and female body.
- Understand how to use guide lines for drawing faces in perspective.
- Know the secrets to drawing male, female, old and young faces.
- Learn great techniques to drawing hands better.
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- Learn to draw a character's face "on model" in different views.
- Get great tips on creating appealing character designs.
- Understand how to use perspective in your backgrounds.
- Get nice thick and thin lines drawing with the Brush tool.
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- Create vivid characters with high lights, tones and gradients.
- Get great tips on creating ground shadows in backgrounds.
- Learn how to set up your character to be ready for animation.
- Learn how to accurately create mouth positions for dialogue.
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*Course includes detailed notes for every lesson in PDF format. Perfect for printing out and using as a reference!
Sample images from each lesson. Click on thumbnail for larger image.
"I have already watched several (lessons) and have learned to draw the basics overnight. They are everything I hoped they would be. Thank you for making them easy to understand and simple to follow. You do a great job of explaining in them. Well worth the money."
-Shawn
The purpose of the Animation course is to teach traditional animation principles in the Flash environment by creating smooth, high quality animation, acting, dialogue and cycles in your own multi-scene animation! This course will teach you to:
- Understand proper squash and stretch timing.
- Learn how to animate on "Arcs" to create smooth movements.
- Create a rough animation using the "Pose to Pose" approach.
- Understand "Anticipation" and "Timing" for animation.
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- Create an animation with the "Straight Ahead" approach.
- Use "Follow Through" principles on secondary objects.
- Clean up your rough animation using symbols.
- Understand how to "Nest" animations within symbols.
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- Create great looking run and walk cycles.
- Edit audio within Flash for character acting scenes.
- Create an animatic/storyboard complete with camera moves.
- Stay organized using "Scenes" and other advanced techniques.
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*Course includes detailed notes for every lesson in PDF format. Perfect for printing out and using as a reference!
Click here for sample animations from lessons 4-8!
Sample images from each lesson. Click on thumbnail for larger image.
"Your tutorials are easy to follow. The lesson notes make quick reference easy. You've got a voice and manner that's easy to listen to." -Tom Ellsworth
The Flash Master course combines both the Drawing and Animation courses together to create one complete course to take you from character creation to a finished multi-scene animation.
By purchasing the Master course instead of purchasing the two courses individually, you will automatically save $25, plus an additional $74 in Free Bonus Tutorials!
Purchase the Master Course and get 7 bonus stand alone video tutorials FREE! An additional savings of $74!
"This is wonderful! And what a great teacher and demonstrator! I am extremely pleased with your Master Course training quality, product and service. Once again, thank-you for a tremendous learning experience!" -Jerry Weller
About the Instructor: Ryan Simmons
Ryan is an award winning artist with over 12 years of experience in animation. While working at Warner Bros. and Dreamworks, he has lent his skills to such films as Cats Don't Dance, Quest for Camelot, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit, Stallion of the Cimmaron, and The Iron Giant.
Ryan's sense of humor and creative flair helped him to win Klasky Csupo's animated Joke Contest in 2001 with his Flash animated entry, A Pirates Tale. In July, 2004 his cartoon Carbonite Confusion won the award for Best Crossover Spoof in the Lucasfilm Star Wars Fan Film competition. And in December 2004, Shoot in Utah was one of the grand prize winners in the Utah Film Commission's commercial contest, where the winning entries were showcased during the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.
Ryan's skills as an illustrator and character designer have been utilized in collectable cards as well as computer software games. His animation has been featured in numerous online flash games, including Walt Disney's "Atlantis" and "Lilo and Stitch".
His flash animations can also be enjoyed at American Greetings.com and Egreetings.com where he has created many humorous ecards.
Ryan is also the creator of the highly popular Star Wars Spoofs website, where his animation skills and love for Star Wars have produced hilarious results!
Aside from operating the creative end of Cartoon Solutions, Ryan has been a guest Flash instructor for numerous secondary schools, colleges and universities, as well as small and large businesses. With over 6 years experience of using Flash to create cartoons, his Flash Training Courses can help you to quickly improve your drawing and animations skills!
View animations from Ryan's portfolio
Click on thumbnails to view animations
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Get started today with Cartoon Solutions Flash Training Courses and watch your cartooning skills get animated!
Here is just a sample of the positive responses we've received after polling some of our customers who have completed the Cartoon Solutions Flash Training Courses.
Question: Have you seen your abilities and skills improve as a result of the the training?
"I have improved so much, I honestly wouldn't know what to do without your help." - Raymond Santos
"Definitely. I get better every day now." - Justin Cook
"Very much so. I now sketch out stuff in Flash all the time and I never ever did that before even though I have a Wacom. And I never used to use the brush, I was a line bender for all my work. Now my stuff looks so much more dynamic even if the brush strokes aren't professional. Using the brush and my Wacom is so liberating and much more enjoyable." - Dennis Mazur
"Yes, very much so. Especially through the eyes of my creative friends, most of whom didn't know that it was possible to do in Flash what I've been taught to do. Even more so too now that some of them are looking at Flash as a creative medium. Now I rarely pick up the pencil and paper to work on any completed pieces, I just got used to creating on my Wacom and using Flash. It's just a better method and much more enjoyable for me to create this way now." - Jabari Dumisani
Read more about what people are saying about Cartoon Solutions Training Courses!
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