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Creating Character Animation in Flash
2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival
Local Screenings
ASIFA Seattle forums

Creating Character Animation in Flash

Wednesday November 18th
6:00–7:30 PM
West Seattle Library
lower level meeting room
2306 42nd Ave SW, Seattle WA 98116
Located one block North of Metropolitan Market
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Join ASIFA Seattle as we kick off our education series.

Jason Fruchter will present several examples of character animation with projects geared toward entertainment, education, and gaming.

A variety of Flash related techniques will be demonstrated including: using symbols to create Flash style “puppet” animation, creating keyframes to plan out the action sequence, making the character talk using “lip sync”, and how to create emotions using facial expressions. In addition, traditional “hand drawn” animation techniques will be demonstrated which do not use automatically generated “tweens” in Flash, just the mind of an animator!

Included throughout the presentation will be discussions on the “principals of animation” as used by traditional animators. These principals include: timing, anticipation, recoil, squash and stretch, and overlapping action.

Overall, this presentation will demonstrate how to best animate a character in Flash by combining Flash’s automatically generated “tweening” with traditional animation techniques. The result is an entertaining and compelling character viewers of your animation will be sure to enjoy!

A professional Illustrator and Animator for 17 years, Jason started using Flash in 1996 when it was first released. He is half of A&J Studios www.aandjstudios.com. His clients include Nickelodeon, MTV, Visionary Media and Magnet Pictures.

2D OR Not 2D Animation Festival

December 5th, 2009–Mark your calendars. The Festival returns to the Pacific Science Center's Eames IMAX Theater

www.2dornot2d.org

Looking Ahead

We're taking the month of December off and coming back with a social event in January and an Animation Jam with a fun contest in February. Keep an eye on the website for the details.

Local Screenings

Animation at the Pacific Science Center

Now through January 3rd, 2010.

Pacific Science Center has teamed up with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and the Cartoon Network for this hands-on exhibit about animation. The history covers everything from Muybridge to Scooby-Doo, and techniques from stop-motion to modern digital production.

Current Releases

Where the Wild Things Are is showing at the Pacific Science Center's IMAX Theater and around town.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is showing at several local theaters.

9 at the Admiral Theater in West Seattle.This may be your last chance to see it on the big screen.

Jules Engel DVD

A leading voice in animation from the 1930's to the 1970's, Engel's luminous career included storyboards for Disney’s Fantasia, helping found United Productions of America studio (UPA), and founding the Experimental Animation program at California Institute of the Arts.

Jules Engel Selected Works Volume 1 is a selection of fifteen films ranging from one of his earliest experimental works (Carnival, 1963) to one of his last (The Toy Shop, 1998). The DVD is part of the iotaCenter’s Kinetica Video Library available at www.iotacenter.org/store/videos/engel_dvd

ASIFA Seattle Web Forums

Catch up with the forums and get the best animation info first. The forums are a great place to share information about screenings and events with animation professionals in the Puget Sound area. Get together with your peers!

Recent Threads:

Seattle Flash Users Group

2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival 2009

The forums are for you to express yourself, spread news, talk about upcoming events, ask for help, contribute tips and techniques, and anything else you want to share with the local animation community!

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