# Animations in Flash 5

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [August 26, 2002, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950 "2002-08-26T12:25:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![emmanuel\_Asalil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@emmanuel\_Asalil](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/emmanuel_Asalil)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950/1 "2002-08-26T12:25:48Z")

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_Animation in Flash 5_

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Dear Kirupa!

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Yes you are doing wonderful things. I am a Graphics teacher, Teaching Adobe photoshop 6.0 and corel DRAW 10.0  
However, I need very much to create movie(Animations) like those of Tommy & Jerry,etc. Please let me know through this special forum.  
Sir, I even do not know any kind of code, will I last? please help me.  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950/2 "2002-08-28T06:12:16Z")

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What exactly are Tommy and Jerry’s animations?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950/3 "2002-08-28T10:38:22Z")

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I think emmanuel Asalil is talking about Tom & Jerry cartoons by Warner Brothers and no doubt someone will correct me but I suppose this woud be done (in the majority) using frame by frame animation with the occassional tweening:bandit:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950/4 "2002-08-28T11:07:31Z")

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I’ve constructed any characters I’ve done using the simple principal of

movieClip - character  
movieClip - head  
movieClip - body and neck  
movieClip - right arm  
movieClip - right hand  
movieClip - left arm  
movieClip - left hand  
movieClip - right leg including foot  
movieClip - left leg including foot

as far as structure of character goes. From there, if you’ve set up your center points correctly you can choose to go with motion tweens, or a/s based movement.

I’m far too unskilled to go into the actual animation process. I would suggest going to [www.moock.org](http://www.moock.org) and checking out anything you can find on the “Gwen” animation he made. He describes in some detail the process of setting up different aspects of the character, including the various face frames.

Sorry… but that’ all the advice I got. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950/5 "2002-08-28T11:10:37Z")

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ok… that didn’t format correctly…

the idea is to have a single movie clip called character (or the character name) then on it’s timeline you have the head and body movie clips. Then in the body movie clip you have arms and leg movie clips, and then inside the arm clips you have hand clips. I place a face clip inside the head clip for easy control.

With each of these named, and having their own animation… you can effectively control various aspects of the character without doing frame by frame.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animations-in-flash-5/4950/6 "2002-08-28T12:53:14Z")

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Hi,  
you know what, I’ve never tried to animate using this technique so I might just give it a try

Thanks for the advice:bandit: