Last year on the 9th of September, I uploaded a new animation. I wanted to comment on this one because of some of the things I learned while making this animation. I animated it in anime studio and exported the animation as a swf and brought that into flash where I optimized it further. Anime studio gave me keys on every frame. Lots of keys are no problem for those wanting to use the royalty free flash animation in video, but for the Web, lots of keys can mean too big of a file size. I went through the keys in flash removing what I could and cleaning it up so that it was smaller in file size. In the end I’m pretty happy with the result. I worked to give the sun lots of character and personality. It’s not one of my more popular downloads and I think part of the reason for that is that it has both night and day in the same animation. If I just made the sun its own animation, it pops up and shines and stays up. I believe it would sell more. Many people that are downloading the flash animations are putting them into presentations and don’t really want to mess with editing the animation. It may be worth re-uploading a new version with just the sun against a blank background to see if it gets more downloads.



You can see more of my royalty free flash animations here.

Tags: adobe flash, AnimeStudio Pro 6, animation, 2d animation, iStockPhoto.com, Cartoon, character animation

I took some time to finish up a short cartoon. This was animated with AnimeStudio Pro 6. First however, I penciled out the rough animation in the program “Pencil” it’s free open-source animation program that allows for both vector and bitmapped drawing. Then I took that pencil test into AnimeStudio to finish up the cartoon.

I recently met with a certain Ryan Simmons. He’s the owner/animator/illustrator of Cartoon Solutions and a very nice guy. He brought to my attention that a cartoon made with existing characters could give my cartoon more views and exposure. His StarWars Spoof cartoons already had a large fan-base the minute he created them. Thank you very much for the advice Ryan! So, in finishing up this short cartoon I made them little kid versions of Edward Cullen and Bella from the Twilight Saga. I’ll have to watch closely to see if this one get’s more traction that my other animation tests or toons.

This Cartoon Made with Anime Studio Pro

Tags: 2d animation, AnimeStudio Pro 6, Twilight, Edward Cullen, Bella, Eat My Sandwich