# Realistic Characters

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/realistic-characters/111813>\
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**Created:** [May 31, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/realistic-characters/111813 "2004-05-31T18:45:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![JasonBob45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@JasonBob45](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JasonBob45)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/realistic-characters/111813/1 "2004-05-31T18:45:04Z")

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Hey guys. Well, what I’m wanting to do is have realistic characters in my animations. As in, not stick figures. I’m pretty experienced in flash (including stickfigures) and I can draw good character art – stationary character art. I’m not sure how to go about moving these realistic characters… I’ve seen animations where it looks like all the limbs of a character are “attached”, just as they would be with stick figures, but I’m not sure how to do this. I would greatly appreciate any insight on this.

Oh yeah, another question… is there a way to tell movie clips to play inside the main timeline? You know, you place a movie clip onto the stage, and throughout it’s existance there, it shows as a stationary image (the first frame of the movie clip) until you take it out. Is there a way to see the animation within the main timeline?