# Animation
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 21, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784 "2004-07-21T13:33:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Marksman1024](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Marksman1024)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784/1 "2004-07-21T13:33:31Z")
Ok, i understand the whole box moving to the right and stuff, but what i don’t get is how the Xiao Xiao movies are made. I mean they are stick figures and they move really smooth and i don’t see how it can be done in frame by frame, so it must be tweened. What would help me would be to see a complex tween .fla or something to understand, if anyone could help me out it would be greatly appriciated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784/2 "2004-07-21T13:39:09Z")
the smoothness is most likely due to the frame rate.
Standard tweens can be very smooth, if done properly.
Default framerate in Flash is 12fps, which is pretty awful.
Crank it up to 25 or 30 to get the ‘smooth’ feeling.
HTH
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784/3 "2004-07-21T14:18:52Z")
thanks i was gonna make another thread about what a good framerate is, but that helped. I don’t know how to explain it but i don’t understand how he can tween like that, and all the tutorials just show a box or circle move across the screen :\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784/4 "2004-07-21T19:45:43Z")
i think they just spend a lot of time doing it frame by frame
heres my version so far
[http://www.geocities.com/declana100/stickman.swf](http://www.geocities.com/declana100/stickman.swf)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784/5 "2004-07-21T20:05:14Z")
Actionscript can help to simulate tweens so that they are much smoother 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation/116784/6 "2004-07-22T14:11:36Z")
thanks man, that movie was done in fbf?, what framerate?
and actionscript? grrr now i gotta learn another language, i was hoping that i could avoid it 😛