# Any advice for animating a silhouette?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-advice-for-animating-a-silhouette/223038>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 18, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-advice-for-animating-a-silhouette/223038 "2007-04-18T23:33:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![azukizero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@azukizero](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/azukizero)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-advice-for-animating-a-silhouette/223038/1 "2007-04-18T23:33:51Z")

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Hey Kirupians,

I’d like to animate a silhouette doing a loopable action (like running, for example) and play this animation while my site is loading (as the preloading animation along with a percentage).

I’m sure you’ve seen what I’m talking about but if not, here’s a good example:  
[http://www.istockphoto.com/file\_closeup/style\_and\_design/flash\_files/animations/838936\_faster\_than\_the\_competition.php?id=838936](http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/style_and_design/flash_files/animations/838936_faster_than_the_competition.php?id=838936)

The only way I can think of doing this is to take a jpeg sequence from a live video, drop each image in Flash, then trace each frame of the person/animal/thing that I want to animate. Obviously, this is seriously tedious.

Eventually, this would be a keyframe animation which might create an animation too large to use as a preloader animation… but I’ve seen this done on other sites! What’s the trick?

Does anyone have any tips on doing something like this? Any other methods?

thanks!  
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