
We usually try way too hard to come up with impressive Flash. We spend hours trying to orchestrate really complex movements, and generally end up tearing our hair out just to come up with a cartoon or anime that will WOW the customer, or our friends and family.
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As I touched on in my previous post, one of the most difficult challenges for an illustrator or animator is finding inspiration. You know you want to create a new cartoon, illustration, or anime, yet that blank screen or blank piece of paper keeps staring you in the face daring you to try. Yet for a few lucky artists it doesn’t seem to be a problem at all. Why? What’s their big secret?
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Almost all of the cartoonists, manga-ka and comic strip artists started off by drawing characters from other sources. Developing your own style and unique characters takes time, and lots of it. If you do a Google search and track down the very first Peanuts comic strip you will be surprised at how simple and almost primative Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang appears.
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I really wanted to add audio to my blogs, and needed a solution that would work across most, if not all, browsers. Flash was the natural choice since it seems to provide cross browser compatability, and Swishmax was the easiest way to cobble together a quick test.
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Animation is the second cousin to magic. Your animation doesn't actually have to be perfect, it only has to look close enough to the real thing so that people "get the idea".
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