First many, many thanks to those who've taken the time to reply to my questions/issues. Your answers are all very helpful! There are a few things I missed from the tutorials and you've pointed me to just those features. Regarding the Wiki: ANSWER: good question, it looks like this is still a black a...

So, thanks in no small part to the advice I got following this initial post, I'm off to a rockin' start with AS. Slowtiger ~~ thanks loads for your shortlist of tips/best practices ~~ I've found they help loads. Myles your website is an *extremely* valuable resource toward starting out in AS. I put ...

Wow ~~ thanks Genete ~~ this is spot on! You really know this tool!

And thanks for the link to your previous post...

Cheers,

Sorry Mikdog ~~ But I'll have to disagree with you on several counts. (1) I realize exactly what I'm doing when I copy "secondary stuff". I'm training my eye in exactly the way the Masters have done in making life studies. (Incidently you might be interested to know that I've formally stud...

So a few folks on this forum have talked a bit about developing styles and so forth in their work with AS. Personally, I'm still working on developing a unique signiture style of my own and so as an exercise I've gone ahead and copied the style of someone else. And who better than Osamu Tezuka himse...

It'd be nice to see your rig especially for those of us trying to learn about animation and how to do stuff in AS. Any chance of seeing your .anme files? Completely understand if you can't share it out though...

Cool character design ~~ she looks like something out of a Quentin Tarantino flix or something. Nice job.

Well done! And I needed a good laugh this evening too.

I like your stylized drawings and the timing of your effect when Cave Guy "Misunderstands" is ~spot on~.

Thanks very much for the feedback so far. ==== Human ~~ if you feel like taking the time to post your cloth experiment ~~ it'd be great to see. Interesting how you break down the flow... RE: As for inverting the monster, I assume you realize the most wildly popular variation of this (rather rare!) t...

OK ~~ So I think I've finally come to grips with the whole drawing in vector graphics thing. So now I'm at a point were I'd like to develop a style and actually try to create real stuff. Toward that end, here's a simple character design. http://www2.bc.edu/~nagelh/exploring.animation/images/TheChang...

So as I get deeper into AS I started wondering about how well the vector graphics and bones approach to animation lends itself to creating cartoon physics type effects of the sort we used to get with looney toons etc. So I whipped up a little doodle to explore and it came out thus... http://www2.bc....

Thanks folks, for your feedback. First ~~ it's good to know from experienced folks rough, reasonable time estimates on work. I have a tendency to get immersed in stuff so that when I come up for air I find huge chunks of time have evaporated ~~ a sort of "rip van winkle" effect. So it's go...

Well done P6r. Certainly, one of the things AS nees is supporting material ~~ stuff to get folks (such as myself) up and running with AS quick. My son (age 12) is also an AS user (and fan) so the idea of a kids book for this is great. And that of course is precisely when to get young artists started...

Yeah ~~ full body animation for humanoids is hard! There are very many degrees of freedom to contend with ~~ especially with a character as detailed and complex as yours. Now as to your question; "is it all worth it"? Well ~~ I can't tell you anything as an expert (obviously ~~ I'm not!) B...

So, I've had some ideas for fantasy~style stories that I'd like, some day, to turn into a sort of graphic novel or animated story. Toward that end I've gotten into Anime studio and I've been experimenting with character design and animation. Here's an example of my latest experiment. http://www2.bc....