Must be me, but for the life of me I can't see where I'm going wrong with Tutorial 1.2 I've been through it five times. Everything is fine up to File/Render. The small window duly opens to show the correctly rendered gradient hill - nicely green into brown. I close the window and ..... nothing happe...

That sounds like a neat and devious little work-around Vern. Even though my skills with AS aren't yet at the level where I can aim to match sound to action, this idea looks like one that I should soon be able to experiment with just as a test. Having worked (in my misbegotten youth) on the editing p...

Anime studio YouTube movies. (All but maybe one) I started with the first and then that linked to another and another and another and ..... Simple animation but poor, predictable ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB1fP1iEHPw Simple animation – a first attempt !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

There should be a manual that comes with an application (paper and/or PDF) I raised that point elsewhere and the reason why there can never be a pdf version of help is because embedded within it are animated examples. These could, I suppose, be represented as a sequential series of screenshots, but...

Personally, and as a newbie, I'd rather have an updateable (and regularly updated) in-program Help file with a functional and comprehensive search facility . Which sort of echoes what JimmyC said ... One thing I would like to see on both the web-based and the download version is a search box. Makes ...

I am in your same age bracket Mmmm - so that makes you either 10 or 11, or 61. The post I've just added following Genete's question might help you decide which film(s) to look at first. You can't view them online, they have to be downloaded and watched via a viewer, but that shouldn't be a problem....

If I would watch only one, what would you reccomend me? Depends, of course, on your tastes, but I think 3 stand out. If you want animation which also features the process of drawing whilst telling a very moving story, go for THE BEAUTY OF LIFE . If you want a wonderfully warm example of 3D animatio...

let's not forget the old tricks of animation. The bar sheet link is very useful. Thanks for that. When I'm further through the AS tuorials and feel able to put together a simple bit of animation for myself, I'll try a short experiment with, say, 15-20 seconds of some well known piece of music. I'll...

Wonderful tips.
Thanks a gazillion.

I remember from my reading that soundtracks are usually completed first, and then the animators work to the soundtrack. Yes - that was the whole basis for my original query and is, I suspect, the reason why audio has cropped up so often in other queries. I get the idea of a storyboard and working t...

A friend of mine uses and teaches basic film-making techniques to his year 6 primary pupils. (10-11 yr olds). He mentioned one particular film he uses and this caused me to search the POCKETMOVIES website for others. At first glance, this site seems to be filled with promos for commercial films, but...

Thanks to everyone who has added tips and explanations following my post. By browsing the forum and FAQ's, I now realise that this sound issue is one that worries or affects a LOT of people. (Makes me wonder why better sound-handling options aren't being developed - or are they???) As a 'person of m...

OK, I'm starting to teaching myself AS by working through the tutorials (which, by the way, are very clear). I completed 1.1 but then carried on experimenting to make sure I could remember those first few key processes. I turned the shape into a face and made it distort - this included giving it eye...

The real difficult issue to achieve when talking about sync sound with animation is for lip sync ...... Later upload into an audio editor (I use Audacity) and combine all together in one single file accordingly to the script. Thanks Genete. That's one to print and study. I wasn't thinking so much a...

I can also be a bit disorganised, but what I always do is save my registration details and code in two ways --- once in a document used for storing all such information (reprinted after every update to insure against a crash) and also as a small text file which I keep in a backup folder where the in...