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Flash Animation Course  "Flash Training Animation Course"
Under the guidance of the award-winning, professional animator Ryan Simmons, you can learn the basic principles and fundamentals of traditional animation while animating with Flash. At the end of the course you'll have a multi-scene animation that incorporates character acting, dialogue, camera moves and cycled animation.

How the course works:
*Download video lessons
*Watch instruction in video lessons
*Review lesson notes and complete each assignment given. (Source file .fla included for specific lessons.)

"I feel like I have learned an incredible amount in a short time. The teaching is also very friendly, professional and likeable" - Justin Cook

Flash Animation Course Outline
15 Video Tutorials.
9 hours 53 minutes of instruction.
Source files included.
Prerequisites: Previous experience with Flash. Or completion of the Flash Beginner Course. Drawing Tablet highly recommended!
Flash training compatible for Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, Flash 8, Flash CS3, and Flash CS4.

Video 0 Running time: 5:04
File size: 12.53 MB
  • Flash CS4 Users Intro
 Description: Course is taught using Flash 8, this lesson shows Flash CS4 users where to find needed features used throughout the course.

Flash Basics. Introductory lessons.
Video 1 Running time: 46:11
File size: 58.9 MB
  • Flash interface
  • Different symbol types
 Assignment: Create a graphic symbol and a movie clip symbol.

Video 2 Running time: 7:38
File size: 11.9 MB
  • Flash hot keys
  • Setting keyboard shortcuts
 Assignment: Set hotkey shortcuts: flip horizontal, flip vertical, smooth, rotate and skew.

Section 1: Animation Principles
Video 3 Running time: 28:09
File size: 33.1 MB
  • Squash and Stretch using Motion Tweening
 Assignment: Animate a bouncing ball cycle using motion tweening. Make keyframes using Function keys (F6, F5, F7).

Video 4 Running time: 31:07 (Includes .fla source file)
File size: 43.7 MB
  • Animating on Arcs
  • Creating smooth movements
 Assignment: Animate baseball bat swing using an arc and motion tweening as well as hand drawn in betweens.

Video 5 Running time: 24:21 (Includes .fla source file)
File size: 29.6 MB
  • Pose to pose rough animation
  • Anticipation and timing
 Assignment: Rough animate a character jumping forward.

Video 6 Running time: 24:45
File size: 33.1 MB
  • Straight-ahead and follow through animation
 Assignment: Create follow through animation on an object attached to a character.

Section 2: Clean up animation
Video 7 Running time: 1:24:57 (Includes .fla source files)
File size: 151.0 MB
  • Cleaning up rough animation with symbols
 Assignment: Clean up rough jump animation with character pack symbols that are provided, or create your own character.

Section 3: Symbol Effects
Video 8 Running time: 25:30
File size: 86.8 MB
  • Nesting animation
  • Applying effects to symbols
 Assignment: Add finished jump animation to nighttime background and change tint.

Section 4: Cycled animation
Video 9 Running time: 58:40 (Includes .fla source files)
File size: 122.6 MB
  • Rough animating and cleaning up a side walk cycle
 Assignment: Rough out and clean up a side view walk cycle.

Video 10 Running time: 46:29 (Includes .fla source files)
File size: 88.1 MB
  • Rough animating and cleaning up a side run cycle
 Assignment: Rough out and clean up a side view run cycle.

Section 5: Character Acting
Video 11 Running time: 27:55
File size: 53.2 MB
  • Importing Audio
  • Rough animation to dialogue
 Assignment: Choose a take by editing the audio file. Rough animate main poses to provided audio.

Video 12 Running time: 1:18:24
File size: 182.0 MB
  • Cleaning up acting rough animation with symbols
 Assignment: Clean up acting animation with symbols incorporating in betweening techniques.

Section 6: Animating dialogue
Video 13 Running time: 35:16
File size: 61.9 MB
  • Animating eye expressions and mouths to dialogue
 Assignment: Animate the face and mouth using the ?comp system? to finish the animation.

Section 7: Creating an animation portfolio piece
Video 14 Running time: 57:16
File size: 106.0 MB
  • Creating a storyboard animatic
  • TV safe zones
  • Adding camera moves
 Assignment: Storyboard an animatic between 15-30 seconds in length. Must contain physical animation, acting and dialogue.

Video 15 Running time: 29:27 (Includes Preloader.fla file)
File size: 62.0 MB
  • Advanced techniques
    • Completing a multi-scene animation
    • Scene Organization with folders
    • Correcting Audio problems at different frame rates
    • Preloaders
 Assignment: Finish cleaning up animatic to create final animation.

"I bought the Flash animation Course, where Ryan teaches you how to make a multi scene animation from start to finish, and the last 3-4 lessons are "Priceless." There is one in there called animating on a Arc which is mostly frame by frame which taught me a lot too. Character acting, animatic and story boards are also very good tuts from that package." - Alex Fernandez

About the instructor:
The video tutorials are created by Ryan Simmons, who has been working in animation for 13 years at studios such as Warner Bros. and Dreamworks on numerous feature films. His Flash animation skills have won many awards for his short films and TV commercials.
(For a more in-depth bio on Ryan including animation examples, click here.)
(To view Ryan's animation demo reel, click here.)

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*All videos are available immediately as a digital download, in Quicktime video format.

Below are actual images from the tutorials. Video tutorials are larger than shown below. Actual dimensions are 720X540.

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