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cgratzlaff — Icon Tutorial 1: Setting Up
Published: 2010-08-30 19:03:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 17770; Favourites: 334; Downloads: 194
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Part One: How to Set Up Your Character For AnimationIf anyone has any questions, feel free to ask! There's no way I could cover everything, so if anyone feels confused by anything, I'll answer all your questions. C:
[link] (Part 2), [link] (Part 3)
Check out some of the icons people have done!
[link] by ~NoreyDragon
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[link] by ~Nukawin
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[link] by ~speedythecat
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Yeah, i just tried and it works! 8D thank you so much for explaning
though im predicting that i'll get stuck again.. x'D
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Oh good! 8D Haha and if you do get stuck again, I'm here to help. <3
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Yeah, i just tried and it works! 8D thank you so much for explaning
though im predicting that i'll get stuck again.. x'D
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Ahhhh, thank you so much for doing this. I've always loved your icons and was curious about your process!
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You're quite welcome! d: Glad I could provide some insight!
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Hey, thanks for making this. I was a bit rusty with my Flash knowledge but this helped.
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I do have a question... you said you didn't use symbols to do mine, how did you do it then?
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I did your's frame-by-frame! For icons that have a lot of action like your's or this one , it would be more trouble than it's worth to try and make symbols that work with all the movement. So I draw each frame. c:
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Wow... That must have taken a while. You draw each frame in flash or photoshop?
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I do all the animating in Flash.
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Lots of people seem to like flash, it must be a pretty good program i take it
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I think lots of people like it because it was really the first animation program to let you animate and colour things really easily and then be able to see your animation right away. 
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Hehe, yea. I like GIMP, mostly because it's free but it's also easier to use then Photoshop and just as powerful. I know a few people who are just the opposite. Same goes for OpenOffice vs the Word suite.
I like a lot of open source software come to think of it...
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I've tried GIMP but I guess 'cause I was so used to Photoshop, I didn't like it much. X) That's great that there are programs out there like that though!
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And people willing to maintain them for next to no pay. Had I time, I would help myself.
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Woah i never even knew any of this. Thanks for making this.
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You're speedy! XD Wasn't expecting a tutorial so soon after the poll.
Gonna try this out right away~!
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I didn't stay up until 1 this morning or anything... X)
Good luck! 8D
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LOL
Well, i got lost at the 5th point, lol
By the way, i make my works with Bryce 5.5 or 7, so the only way to make animations i with videos or sequences of bmp pics, i've searched for some program to make GIFs from BMP, but nothing suited my needs, i gave up after trying nearly 10 programes....
Maybe i'll try to search programms to convert videos in GIFs, i think i'll only get ultra-complicated programs, that'll make me give up after the 3rd or 4th program...
However, nice Tutorial
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There are a couple of online sites I know of where you can upload separate images and it'll animate a gif for you. Just search "online gif maker" or something. This is a good one: [link] Good luck! 8D
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there's just one problem with those online GIF makers.... to make a smooth animation Bryce renders every single frame, this means that for a nice and smooth animation i can have over 3000 pics...
thus making realy hard uploading pic after pic!
Thx for the help, tho
Maybe i'll try to make animations with less frames/sec
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Ah, true. But a gif with that many frames probably won't be very usable on the internet anyway, it would take a long time to load. D: All of my icons are about 30 frames MAX. x)
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hehehehee, true, also, i render the pics in max format, wich is 3840x2160
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There's even one that'll turn movies into GIFs, MovietoAniGIF. That's what I used to make the DragonAge stamp I have. That and GIMP.
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You are the awesome! I could kinda pick apart how you did it (hoping to get into animation myself), but this is immensely helpful!
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Glad I could help! 
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This is seriously awesome and helpful! O: I always wondered how to use the pivot point properly ^_^
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To REALLY use it properly, you have to double click the symbol to go into it, then move your image to where you want the pivot point to be, then double click the background to go out of the symbol and them move your symbol back to where it should be. d: But that's too complicated for what this ends up being. X) That's really only for Flash builds for TV shows and stuff. d:
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Aaah my brain! XD I've been using flash for like 3-4 years on and off, and I still don't understand it fully O.o
But this tutorial will probably improve some of my general stuff
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Haha hopefully this'll help.
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