2D Flash Cycle Animation

During the past 3 weeks we've been working on a 2D animation program called FLASH. We learned how to make a 2D animated walking stick man following instructions step by step. We had a choice of either learning from a video tutorial or step by step instruction with screenshots and I chose to follow step by step instruction. There were more than 20 steps required to finish this animation and today I will be demonstrating one of these tools and the tool that i will be demonstrating is the BONE TOOL. The BONE TOOL is used to create the joints to the stick man's arms and legs. The joints are one of the most important parts to making him walk.


We had to make different poses for the stick man walk and we had to make sure we did the right poses unless it would look like the stick man is gliding across the floor. There was a lot of certain steps to follow to make your stick man walk. we even had to make the head and neck move and we had to make a ground with obstacles like rocks to walk past. The arms and legs and even the body and head were made separately. It was one of the easiest projects we have done as a class that was super easy to do, all you have to do is follow the steps.


There were a lot of ideas for this project i had. Like maybe next time we can make him interact with other stickmen. Also add a story with dialog and make a background for him to walk past. We can also make him do other movements like jump, Run, and doge things that come in his way. Making a story and adding colors would be a really cool project.