Ninja animation

you should thank me a bit, ive been telling a few mates but i only mailed like 8 people.

so the rest of the 7992 must be someone elses doing :)

It was hand drawn - cleaned up with an ink pen then scanned and imported into flash then tweeked where necessary.

i want to know why you chose this route vs a direct Flash route?

hahah that was great,i especially like the bit with the spiked monster and the fire!

Not a big fan of drawing straight into flash - it works for some projects but I do most of my designing with a specific ink pen and I wanted to use that line for this film. I used flash because over the years I've picked up some little cheats that speed things up. Plus programs like animo are very expensive. It might seem a bit of a round about way of doing things but it works for us.

i asked coz ive done a lot of what you mentioned for pretty much the exact reasons.
though its quite a lenghty process.

i didnt mean drawing straight into Flash. i meant creating your stage layouts and working with the symbols.

Ah I see.

I have to admit that having made Fuggy the way I did I can now see ways of streamlining the process.

I am making a web sitcom next year and am already devising some working practices which will enable me to retain the hand drawn feel but utilizing some of the workflow benefits of flash.

However sometimes you just have to put the hours in.

def. i recently had the opportunity to contract someone who last worked on WB's Coconut Fred and before that on Disney's Buzz on Maggie.

Some of the stuff i was taught although exclusively Flash related, def saves me a lot of time because the process is a lot more straight forward.

Personally Animo to me is just not on. Too expensive and Flash+AE gives more functionality. whether its for 2d or for Flash.

i think Ninja would be a splendid direct Flash made project. like Atomic Betty

but anyway. im ranting now.

Very cool. I enjoyed the narrator, reminded me of the announcer from Mortal Kombat. :p

8000 hits, you must be ecstatic to have such an audience.