Hello,

I go to the monthly South Sound Adobe User's Group meeting in Tacoma on the 2nd Monday of the month.
Our next meeting features Jason Fruchter presenting on animation. If you are interested in attending just let me know so I can let the meeting organizers know how many, in addition to myself, to expect. There is no cost but we do pass around a coffee can for donations (just a dollar or two is fine) but you are under no obligation.

Should be fun!
Lisa

Here's the summary that Jason posted:

The theme of my presentation will be Creating Character Animation in Flash.

Several examples of character animation will be shown. They represent 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.

As a special feature for SSAUG, I will give a tutorial demonstrating how I create a character to animate in Flash. First I will use my stylus pen to draw a character directly on the computer. I will then show how I convert the drawing into an animated character by creating symbols for each body part. Finally, I will animate the character doing a simple gesture, demonstrating how to make your drawing come to life!
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!

Jason Fruchter - Animator and Illustrator - A&J Studios - http://www.aandjstudi...

Lisa: My daughter (Sadaf) and I would both like to attend this. Thanks. Aamir.

Hello Amir,

I have been horrendously ill so cannot attend tonight's SSAUG gathering with Jason Fluchter speaking.
It's a very welcoming group so please attend with your daughter.
It will start by 6:30 and it's at Cascade Print Media (in Nalley Valley area).
3321 South Lawrence Street Tacoma, WA 98409.

I'm really sorry I can't make it.
Have a great time!

Lisa

253.272.4479