Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Making a Character Blink
Published on April 8, 2010 by Chad Troftgruben · 61 CommentsLearn how to make a character blink in this Adobe Flash tutorial.
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[..YouTube..] Thank you so much!! you are very informal and very detailed about every aspect. Thanks
[..YouTube..] planning on making my own cartoon, so this is a real help so thanks
[..YouTube..] Hey, I just LOVE watching your vids man! They are so helpful and detailed. Hope you’ll make more
[..YouTube..] Adobe flash cs 5 shit , i have cs4 and i don’t understand you
[..YouTube..] what program do you use for the whole story and tell me if it is free and downloadable
[..YouTube..] dude i would kiss you can you make more helpful videos like this
[..YouTube..] I have to say you are a teacher with out borders. pls, tell me how you use bone-tool and make, the leg and foot move together. thank youbkooch78@gmail.com
[..YouTube..] It kind of looks okaytry tweens and easing it between key frames, it makes it look better
[..YouTube..] How did u put all the Symbols like the head, legs and stuff into another Symbol that contains all the Symbols?
[..YouTube..] Your character seems to have tret syndrome
[..YouTube..] i watched your clip, very interesting… please more
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[..YouTube..] Would this work differently with Macromedia Flash 2004?
[..YouTube..] brilliant as always, this guy is a must add if your new to animation in flash
[..YouTube..] awesome stuff man. I’m learning from scratch and you’re getting me where I wanna be. Thanks for being so detailed in everything you do.
[..YouTube..] you know what i love on this video well i tell you nothing!!! boring!!!
[..YouTube..] pretty lazy animation
[..YouTube..] @MadDogMeh or pirate it like me
[..YouTube..] Hey, Question.. i made a character who is waving, i choose insert-movieclip, made the character wave, using like 6 keyframes, got back to the scene and dragged the movieclip into the scene, now this character isn’t waving anymore, only if i choose test movie. Also..if i wanna export this into a png sequence the character is for instance moving from side to side, but isn’t waving. Do you have any idea how i can make this png sequence work?
[..YouTube..] @CheezeyChannel I am using cs5, and so far the tutorials have worked quite well for me.
[..YouTube..] @ztpunk123 $700.00
[..YouTube..] hey I want to start doing animations, I was thinking to get adobe flash cs5, but I was wondering if the tutorial you did for cs4 were still good for cs5? thx a lot btw your tutorials are great!
[..YouTube..] how much money is flash?
[..YouTube..] @shmaveyea double click on the object on the stage
[..YouTube..] Thank you ^^ But is there any smoother blinking o.O?
[..YouTube..] How do I get the layers into the ‘head’ symbol?
[..YouTube..] When I go to you’re tutorial on making the character blink , I get stuck. I select all the parts of the head and create a symbol (graphic) but then flash won’t let me just copy the layers for the head so I can paste them within the new ‘head’ symbol I just created, it has to be all of them!! Anyway around this?
[..YouTube..] Many thanks for these tutorials. So very helpful,
[..YouTube..] UR simply FANTASTIC!:D
[..YouTube..] @eat4peace GET A MAC. 1,000,000 LESS PROBLEMS FOR YOU.
[..YouTube..] greatest tutorials ever
[..YouTube..] @darkrille132 seriously, go fym
[..YouTube..] I cannot express to you how much I enjoyed and learned from your teaching! Thank you for taking the time and effort to help educate others. Best wishes.
[..YouTube..] Thanks !! i love your tutorials !!
[..YouTube..] @darkrille132
[..YouTube..] @banykox What is that supposed to mean?
[..YouTube..] @EnemiesProductions tvoja cicna ale si zabil ritulka
[..YouTube..] @umbrellaeinheit Yes because that completely effects the outcome in the animation, pc fanboy
[..YouTube..] Hey, I’m a competent flash animator and currently have Adobe cs4. As you obviously know a lot about animation and such I was wondering whether you could help me. I currently have a bog standard Acer computer which struggles with all my animation. I would like to get a computer good enough for this amount of media, (Though I can’t afford anything to flashy.)What computer are you using in this video and currently? What computer would you recommend?
[..YouTube..] @umbrellaeinheit Seriously, Mac is better for people who use Flash and work on their computer
[..YouTube..] Seriously, get windows.
[..YouTube..] How do you extend layers through symbols? I cannot get my character work in the outermost layer because I do not know how to do this.
[..YouTube..] did you draw him?
[..YouTube..] Well,That’s easyer then i thought.
[..YouTube..] help!!i downloaded an .fla from the net.i opened the library of that fla and saw many symbols… i noticed when i right-clicked symbol 1, i see a play button.then i clicked the play button when i right clicked..after i clicked the play button, the whole animation played..then i right clicked on 1 of the symbols then clicked edit.i changed the appearance of that symbol..then when i went back to symbol and right clicked symbol 1, i clicked play again.but it doesnt play the whole animation.thanks
[..YouTube..] Thank you! You are so clear and helpful!
[..YouTube..] It looks scary at 2:34
[..YouTube..] you’re tutorials are awsome. I learnd so much by looking at them in just two days. They are so easy to understand and really helpfull! Thank you sooooo much***
[..YouTube..] Oh i love your tutorials… LOVE, LOVE LOVE xD
[..YouTube..] i sorry but, what is with the chin, really!
[..YouTube..] At 1:34 how did you extend the timeline? I can only do 100 on my Adobe Flash. Please help me I am trying to make something
[..YouTube..] the character looks like he ha an erection lol kinda distracted me
[..YouTube..] when i first saw this title for the video, i thought “geez, that’s pretty simplistic and I won’t learn anything.” boy, was I wrong. I learned a bunch, as always. thanks, yet again, for sharing your gifts and inspiring me.
[..YouTube..] I love you so much so in love with you
[..YouTube..] Thanks again
[..YouTube..] Great Tutorial, Could you possibly make a tutorial on how to bring a character (that has already been made and had armatures asigned to arms and legs) into a new flash file, whenever I try it the arms and legs are either on the wrong layers or the armatures are missing some of their poses.
[..YouTube..] Will u ever make a tutorial on how to combine the walking blinking talking and moving?
[..YouTube..] Will u ever make a tutorial on how to combine the walkingBlinking talking andMoving?
[..YouTube..] epic
[..YouTube..] your tutorials are amazing
[..YouTube..] Thanks, you are lyk, officislly amazing!
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