Help with animation

Wiktor

Psyxho_Mr macromedia is a very outdated program from Adobe, in which you could create old flash programs that are no longer supported. You can also make animations in this program and I would be happy to receive any tips for this program from anyone. Or I'll try to explain this program a bit myself, although I'm not a master at it, but yeah.

Psyxho_Mr

Ok interesting

Wiktor

I will try to post about macromedi today.

Wiktor

Welcome to macromedia! #1

Today I will show you about animating in macromedia flash 8. Today I will deal with the easiest way to animate and every post there will be more difficult but more effective ways.
Start screen in macromedia flash 8:https://i.imgur.com/a/Pa9vyrv
(I apologize in advance for this hamster xD)
If we want to make a simple animation in this program, we must click on "new flash document". Then tools appear, a bar with cages, and our field where we will do our miracles. (I didn't show all the things because there are a lot to list and there are clearly too many of them).
https://i.imgur.com/od6Yidl.png
Macromedia Flash 8 toolbar:
We will use this blue brush to make a stick insect.
https://imgur.com/KQnnbkN
Color mark things that will be useful to us.
Green: this is where our cages are located one below the other.
Black - what I mentioned earlier, i.e. the marker with which we will paint the stick insect.
Red - there you can change the color of the outline of your pen and the background. (it will be even more useful in later stages.)
Blue - we are interested in the button on the left with the icon of two squares. When we turn it on, we will have the so-called "onion skin" thanks to which we will see our previous frames but semi-transparent. This helps animators a lot because they can see their previous frames and know where the animation continues.
How to animate?
To start animating your first animation, we need to familiarize ourselves with keyboard shortcuts:
F7 - This will create a new (clean) frame.
F6 - This copies our previous frame, which makes work easier because you don't have to paint the same frame again.
E - short for "eraser", which simply switches us to the eraser. (In my opinion, it's useful because you don't have to bother with constant clicking).
F5 - some more advanced things here, because this thing "extends" the frame, which means the same frame will last longer. This is very useful when using a large number of layers. And it is more convenient than copying the same frame.
Ending
Now you have quite a lot of information about how to animate in this program. I hope I helped :) In the next tutorial I will show you how to export your first animation.

Wiktor

The new „Welcome to Macromedia #2 is comimg! It will be released when I really see that my previous guide will be well received.

Psyxho_Mr

Thanks for the little tutorial

Wiktor

Psyxho_Mr you welcome 😉

Wiktor

About "Welcome to Macromedia #2
Hello to you! The second part will probably be sent to Macromedia on Friday. Regards.

tunatheanimator

solid tutorial for sure! I love flash 8, it is so classic : D. I still use it occasionally for storyboarding/animatics.

Wiktor

Welcome to Macromedia #2

Hi! In the previous guide, there was a bit about the basic things you need to know to animate. Today we will focus on processing our animation and exporting it. For today's guide, I prepared a simple animation of a stick figure.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n67LZqkmCbaS6YIAPGt-ZxhwYw-NfVLX/view?usp=sharing
By the way, I now use Google Drive to share photos because it looks better than with this additional imgur interface.
Once we have our animation ready and we want to see the result, we can go to the control>play tab, but I use the default keyboard shortcut "enter". If the animation seems too fast or too slow, you can change the number of frames per second. (fps). You can either change this in the document options window when you create a new document, or by clicking on the number (set to 12.0 fps by default) twice. Then a window will pop up where we can change scene preferences, FPS and other things.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-IK3QXx_9BbZuhFZs1SpMkEdY7esHqre/view?usp=sharing
That's what it is. Once you are really ready to export your animation. Go to file>export>export movie. Then a window will appear where we choose the path to save our animation. Once we have entered the name and format, I honestly recommend for Windows, .avi because this is the most supported formats today with which we can save our animation in Macromedia.
When this window pops up, we can choose various options, but I recommend choosing the default ones so that it saves normally, but you can also play around ;)
Ending
That would be the end for today, I'm sorry that this guide is so short, but I don't have much time to make a longer one. However, I promise that the third part of the guide will be much better. See you!

Wiktor

There is no need to worry because another guide to Macromedia is coming soon!

Wiktor

Wiktor By the way, I will not stop creating these guides.

Wiktor

And thanks for your interest in my guides :D

Sifter

yeah just so you know, none of the pictures show up. We have to request access to each and everyone of them. Consider making them public in the Drive or go for another method to share pictures.