# Creating Vector People For Flash

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 29, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-vector-people-for-flash/24315 "2003-06-29T00:32:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![novon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/65b543/32.png) [@novon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/novon)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-vector-people-for-flash/24315/1 "2003-06-29T00:32:01Z")

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hi

I was wondering what the best method is for creating vector real-looking representations of people for flash. I’ve seen some good examples (don’t have links though, mainly in TV comercials and MTV), is it usally done by importing a photo and rotoscoping it or is it done in another app perhaps in 3d then imported?

I don’t need a lot of animation on them, just arms moving.

Thanks

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**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-vector-people-for-flash/24315/2 "2003-06-29T00:38:43Z")

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just the ability to draw them well. That is the only tool you need. Be a good animator.

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**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-vector-people-for-flash/24315/3 "2003-06-29T00:53:38Z")

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for “real-looking”, yes, rotoscoping is still pretty common. Theres also tracing bitmap in Flash - converting an image directly from raster to vector - Adobe has an app that does this as well though its name currently escapes me.

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**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-vector-people-for-flash/24315/4 "2003-06-29T00:56:56Z")

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there is another way, if I understand the question, to do this.

[ayoungkim.com](http://www.ayoungkim.com)

in the above site, I used Adobe premier to break up the mpeg into jpegs, then with Fireworks, exported them as 4 color gifs via batch process, then brought them into Flash, where I used Trace Bitmap…

It is time consuming, but it works quite well.

Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif)

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**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-vector-people-for-flash/24315/5 "2003-06-29T01:05:13Z")

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ahh…trace bitmap, exactly what I was looking for thanks

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**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-vector-people-for-flash/24315/6 "2003-06-29T05:03:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by senocular \*  
> \*\* Adobe has an app that does this as well though its name currently escapes me. \*\*

I believe it’s called Adobe Streamline, but I don’t think they make it anymore. You can still use the latest version of it which is 4.0 I think.