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Not bad, it's good to see you're trying to learn. I hope you are, atleast. If so, let me offer some advice, as a fellow learner:
Best thing to do before jumping straight is to learn good construction. Draw, draw, draw. Look for underlying forms. This will help greatly.
Breaking a piece of animation into key frames and inbetweening instead of animating straight through is a good thing to learn also.
When it comes to doing stuff like walk cycles, study your own walk. Study other people walking. Draw some key poses. Make a simple character and draw what you think are the key poses in a walk cycle, showing when one foot rises, comes down, etc; how the body and head move; how the arms move. It's important to observe it for yourself and not just copy a cycle from a book. They're merely aids.
Don't rely on Flash when you're trying to learn traditional animation, there's too many shortcuts (tweens, library objects etc.) that can hinder your progress and stop you from learning important fundamentals. If you are going to use it, draw it all, no symbols, tweening or copying and pasting ;)
If you're keen to learn I recommend you get Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation. It may not seem as in-depth as Richard Williams' book but it's packed with important principles.
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thanks for the review! i liked your flashes
EDIT: actually i've been drawing my whole life. if you check out my deviantart(theres a link on my page in my journal) then you'll be able to see some of my drawings done by hand. I am (if i do say so myself) a pretty experienced artist, and now that i have a wacom tablet i have been doing alot better at making flash. if you want an example check out my flash TA: 3.5
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I just watched both parts, and that was fantastic! Good graphics, animation (particularly the timing), voices and humour. The ending was just plain hilarious! I can't wait to see the next one!
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Worth the wait, once again! Spectacluar graphics and imagery, and the events have left me awaiting the next chapter with greater anticipation than any of the previous chapters have. Zoe's voice sounds just like it used to, which was a thrill also.
Thanks for such entertainment!
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