"Flash Training Drawing Course" Under the guidance of the award-winning, professional animator Ryan Simmons, you can learn the basic principles and fundamentals of drawing the human form, creating appealing character design and drawing and constructing your own character to be ready for animation in Flash. How the course works: *Download video lessons *Watch instruction in video lessons *Review lesson notes and complete each assignment given. (Source file .fla included for specific lessons.) "Just wanted to take time to say thanks for the Drawing Course. I've been working with it for a while now and I must say I've learned a lot, and have become a much better artist in Flash. A lot of the tips and tricks you offer I never would've figured out on my own, which helps to speed up the production process in character creation. As far as the "Drawing" is concerned, I dont think you could've offered much more, this to me was as concise as you could get. Just wanted to say you did a great job of offering these teaching tools" - Jabari Dumisani Flash Drawing Course Outline 17 Video Tutorials. 8 hours 43 minutes of instruction. Source files included. Prerequisites: Previous experience with Flash. Or completion of the Flash Beginner Course. Drawing Tablet highly recommended! Flash training compatible for Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, Flash 8, and Flash CS3. Flash Basics. Introductory lessons. Video 1 Running time: 46:11 File size: 58.9 MB Flash interface Different symbol types Assignment: Create a graphic symbol and a movie clip symbol. Video 2 Running time: 7:38 File size: 11.9 MB Flash hot keys Setting keyboard shortcuts Assignment: Set hotkey shortcuts: flip horizontal, flip vertical, smooth, rotate and skew. Section 1: Rough Character Design Video 3 Running time: 29:19 File size: 32.6 MB Male body construction Assignment: practice by sketching 4 male poses: front, side, and 2 action using basic shapes. Video 4 Running time: 29:30 File size: 32.8 MB Female body construction Assignment: practice by sketching 4 female poses: front, side, and 2 action using basic shapes. Video 5 Running time: 31:49 File size: 33.2 MB Head construction Assignment: Practice by designing 4 different character heads, each one looking in a different direction: straight on, ¾, looking up, looking down. Focus is on aligning features properly in perspective. Video 6 Running time: 30:53 File size: 32.7 MB Hand construction Assignment: Draw the hand from 5 different views: open, fist, point, relaxed and side. Video 7 Running time: 30:01 File size: 42.4 MB Head Turn around views Side view 3/4 view Back view Assignment: Design rough character front , 3/4 , side and back view heads. Video 8 Running time: 31:17 File size: 38.0 MB Appealing character design Varying basic shapes for different designs Folds and wrinkles in clothing Assignment: Create rough costumed version of character with folds and wrinkles, incorporating the previous character head design. Section 2: Rough Background Design Video 9 Running time: 22:56 File size: 34.1 MB Sketching out a background 1 and 2 point perspective Size relationships Assignment: Sketch out a background using perspective. Section 3: The Clean up line Video 10 Running time: 15:53 File size: 31.4 MB Importing artwork into Flash Tracing the bitmap Assignment: Import an image into Flash and trace the bitmap using different settings. Video 11 Running time: 31:36 File size: 38.4 MB Cleaning up line with the brush tool Danger Zone Assignment: Clean a character head sketch using the brush tool. Video 12 Running time: 33:35 File size: 52.1 MB Cleaning up line with Stroke/Line tools New stroke settings in Flash 8 Assignment: Clean up a background sketch using the stroke tools. Section 4: Coloring in Flash Video 13 Running time: 29:55 File size: 77.4 MB Coloring a character with tones, highlights and gradients. Assignment: Color a character and include: tones, highlights, and gradients. Video 14 Running time: 23:18 File size: 55.8 MB Coloring a background with tones, highlights and gradients. Assignment: Color a background and include: tones, highlights, and gradients. Section 5: Converting characters to be "animation-ready". Video 15 Running time: 46:42 (Includes .fla source file) File size: 70.2 MB Converting body parts to symbols Using the "comp system" on body parts Proper placement of pivot points Assignment: Put cleaned up art into symbols with organized naming system for symbols and pivot points in proper positions. Section 6: Creating mouth positions and eye expressions. Video 16 Running time: 50:32 (Includes .fla source file) File size: 95.4 MB Building the front view of the head Layering of symbols inside Head symbol Creating 7 mouth positions for dialogue Creating eye blink cycle Assignment: Incorporate "comp system" into the head symbol with mouth positions and expressions in the front view. Video 17 Running time: 47:00 (Includes .fla source file) File size: 83.1 MB Building the side view of the head Layering of symbols inside Head symbol Creating 7 mouth positions for dialogue Creating eye blink cycle Assignment: Incorporate "comp system" into the head symbol with mouth positions and expressions in the side view. "I have already watched several (lessons) and have learned to draw the basics overnight. They are everything I hoped they would be. Thank you for making them easy to understand and simple to follow. You do a great job of explaining in them. Well worth the money." - Shawn About the instructor: The video tutorials are created by Ryan Simmons, who has been working in animation for 11 years at studios such as Warner Bros. and Dreamworks on numerous feature films. His Flash animation skills have won many awards for his short films and TV commercials. (For a more in-depth bio on Ryan including animation examples, click here.) (To view Ryan's animation demo reel, click here.) Need to see sample tutorials before you make your purchase? Click here to view FREE video tutorials! *All videos are available immediately as a digital download, in Quicktime video format. Below are actual images from the tutorials. Video tutorials are larger than shown below. Actual dimensions are 720X540.
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