Animating in Flash =S

I just spent about 5 hours doing a 4 second animation in Flash. Haha. Half of that time was spent actually figuring out how to do it! I thought that it would be very easy but because the character is nested you have to keep making sure that you have 'single frame' selected in properties with the right frame number otherwise you do all this animation and can't see it in the main timeline or it just keeps looping and going haywire. It took me a while to figure this out. So in conclusion, I learnt a lot tonight!

I'm kind of happy with my animation. I think it's cute and she seems alive but it is a little jolty because I couldn't do motion tween with all the parts because my character isn't designed well enough for the motion tween to work properly all the time and it's a bit late to go back and fix her. I've learnt a lot now about things that you need to think about when designing a character for animating and even though Flash can be a bit frustrating and hard to deal with it would be good to learn more about designing good characters for animating and seeing if I can animate it better.

The lip sync and eyes were the easiest parts to animate while the arms were probably the most difficult, especially going from one gesture to another smoothly.

So now all I have to do is make sure I've done everything we need to do and do a bit more tweaking to my animatic/animation. =)