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# All of cs3?
That mean you have Flash?
(, Wed 1 Jun 2011, 13:27, archived)
# erm, i presume so
it's on my 'puta at home. currently trying to use layers in tatyshop and then animating them. comes out really jerky and the more layers i add to smooth it out, the bigger the file gets.
(, Wed 1 Jun 2011, 13:32, archived)
# Urgh
Photoshop - I find - is rubbish to use for animation, especially the more recent versions. I only use it for turning already completed animation frames into a gif.

Flash is good, if you do have it, because you get the onion skin and can animate in multiple layers and it's pretty flexible. Then I usually export the finished cartoon as either an image sequence or avi movie then turn into a gif in Photoshop.

Alternatively draw the frames on paper (get a bit of glass to draw on, then shine a lamp up at it for cheap light box effect), then scan them in. Import the frames into photoshop, colour them in, touch them up, etc. and you have a gif.
(, Wed 1 Jun 2011, 13:39, archived)
# nice one
i'll have a look tonight. if i have flash then it could be a whole new way to waste my time : )
(, Wed 1 Jun 2011, 13:42, archived)