I attend three sessions this afternoon. The first was a bunch of lame Flash production magic tricks. I learned a few things, but it wasn't really the best session.
The next two sessions dealt with a new world that I never knew about -- hand-drawn animation in Flash. The first guy was a Disney Online animator named Sandro Corsaro. He presented a number of great animation principles: Persistence of vision (the human eye fills in the tweens), anticipation (which means you squat before a jump so the viewer knows it is about to happen), exaggeration is everywhere in animation, Dont overtween - very few flash tweens are used - its all about keyframing and onionskinning, and a lot more. It was fascinating to see him use his Wacom tablet to draw and clean up right in Flash - sort of takes the mystery out of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. He described drawing in Flash like pulling lines with clay. He dragged beziers around to shape them how he wanted them to look. He mentioned that the eyes are the most important element in a characters personality.
The next guy named Aaron Simpson gave a very similar presentation that was equally inspiring. Some key notes: "write what you know", "the web can waste a lot of time if you let it - be careful not to waste your time away in front of the web." He profiled a number of successful Flash animators. It makes me want to start drawing again. I am for sure going out to buy a Wacom.
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