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I've been animating in Maya for a few years now, but I've never been familiar with the other aspect of producing animation with the software. So, finding myself with some spare time, I decided to try my hand at rigging this gussied-up Nidoking . It was an allegedly simple project that fought me at every turn, from building the skeleton to fiddling with texturing and render settings.
Still, I'm glad I did it. It taught me a lot of lessons I'll be able to apply to more... substantial content down the line. It was also nice to dust off After Effects for the first time in a while, and once I was in there I figured I might as well give sound design a try :P
I'm not sure what will come next, besides that it will be entirely original, from the ground up. If you want to follow along with whatever I wind up doing next in 3D, please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/SlateDragon
PS - Is it just me, or has Flash gotten really finicky in the past few years?
Still, I'm glad I did it. It taught me a lot of lessons I'll be able to apply to more... substantial content down the line. It was also nice to dust off After Effects for the first time in a while, and once I was in there I figured I might as well give sound design a try :P
I'm not sure what will come next, besides that it will be entirely original, from the ground up. If you want to follow along with whatever I wind up doing next in 3D, please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/SlateDragon
PS - Is it just me, or has Flash gotten really finicky in the past few years?
Category Flash / All
Species Pokemon
Size 960 x 540px
File Size 2.01 MB
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I've been noticing that people have been moving to HTML5, I know 
Tasuric uses it for his animations now.
Tasuric uses it for his animations now. 
I am surprised people still even USE flash. I mean the practice of having to embed badly compressed vids into flash players just so that stuff works on FA is just .... they could simply load any of the dozens of open source HTML5 vid players and even force people to just host content on their own servers elsewhere, but nope @M@..
I haven't got flash installed for over 4 years now and other than the lil' silly animations people used to do, I don't miss it.
Good job on the animation, the movement looks energetic and smooth.
I haven't got flash installed for over 4 years now and other than the lil' silly animations people used to do, I don't miss it.
Good job on the animation, the movement looks energetic and smooth.
Man, the hoops I had to jump through to get this thing together. Flash (Animate, now) will only import FLVs, but no other Adobe program exports FLVs anymore because it's kind of rubbish so you have to use a third party converter. Then you get the FLV in and the sound cuts out after a few seconds, so you to export the sound separately and bring that in. Then the online libraries for Actionscript don't have a proper search function anymore, so you have to poke around coding forums just to get the stupid playback buttons working because it's been years since you had to bother with this stupid program.
The chief benefit of a SWF is that it's completely self-contained; it can be posted anywhere and its content and interactivity will be preserved without it all depending on one hosting site. If I could find some other way to do that, maybe stuffing it all into some Unity shell or something, I'd be happy to learn.
The chief benefit of a SWF is that it's completely self-contained; it can be posted anywhere and its content and interactivity will be preserved without it all depending on one hosting site. If I could find some other way to do that, maybe stuffing it all into some Unity shell or something, I'd be happy to learn.
mmm... Unity is way way overkill for just making a simple media player... you could probably try making a standalone app with your animations and include the 3D models and still come out under the size of a movie. xD
But yeah. I do have vague horrible memories of working with flash in ye olde days :T
.Flv isn't THAT obscure of a container, I believe ffmpeg can easily drop some video footage into a .flv container for you if you wanted to, but yes point is, nobody uses the VP6 codec anymore and for a good reason.
All FA needed would be to allow .webM uploads, most browsers can wrap those things into their own lil' players. Doubt that'll happen anytime soon
But yeah. I do have vague horrible memories of working with flash in ye olde days :T
.Flv isn't THAT obscure of a container, I believe ffmpeg can easily drop some video footage into a .flv container for you if you wanted to, but yes point is, nobody uses the VP6 codec anymore and for a good reason.
All FA needed would be to allow .webM uploads, most browsers can wrap those things into their own lil' players. Doubt that'll happen anytime soon
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