Flash animated cartoon demo

A short demo video directed by Artie Romero of ARG! Cartoon Animation Studio showing some of the techniques used to create classic character animation in Adobe Flash, including rough character sketches, cleanup, inking, coloring and lighting effects. Animation by Don Mangan, with coloring and lighting effects by Artie Romero.

The background was modeled and rendered with a toon shader in Autodesk Maya by Lisa Tyler. Thanks a bunch to Daniel Janis, writer/producer of "The Pandas" for the use of his kitchen from "Pandah-kah." The kitchen BG is copyright 2009, Daniel Janis, and is used with his permission.

The original music, "Squealing Evil Chestnuts," was provided by Timothy Romero, who composed it in Garage Band on a Mac. From his album "Fish Chewing Gum," copyright 2004, Timothy Romero, used with permission.

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http://www.artie.com

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[Eggyfartscartoons]

Hi im working on an animation and I just need 1 tip, "What do I set the smoothing of the brush too?" When I set it to any it looks realy messy please help.

[argstudio]

@Eggyfartscartoons That depends. Which version of Flash are you using?

[Eggyfartscartoons]

@argstudio Now unfortunatly I can't afford adobe flash so I use "Macromedia Flash 8"

[argstudio]

@Eggyfartscartoons I recommend you post your question in a forum like the one at FlashKit dot com, because we don't have that version in our studio anymore. Good luck!

[RATHAHONNI]

Artists must have been a dime a dozen to draw all the inbetweens.

[argstudio]

@RATHAHONNI Apparently they weren't, because the inbetweens still are not done!

:D

[LogisticallyTwisted]

@argstudio This question relates to all versions.

[titananimations]

@Eggyfartscartoons I use smoothing on 40 - 45. It doesn't do an excellent job, but it gets the smoothest line for my style and technique. Even so, there is usually a lot of line clean up to do regardless.

[Abandonation2]

Im out of words like this video

[seckziee]

Tacnac100 holy fuck ure an idiot