Cartoons made in Flash

Craig — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:15:41 +0000

My first job in Flash was animating a children cartoon series. I had always drawn pictures and such as a child but freshly graduated I had no experience in animation. At first it was very frustrating to get any cartoons done, but I finally had a break through and this job became such a wonderful experience for me. I started with nothing and at the end of my two years with Kid Chess I had made 75 cartoon episodes of edutainment to teach kids (K-5th) how to play chess.

I would have never guessed the popularity of theses cartoons in the schools. To me I was just messing around try to make the knight’s lips sync with the audio. Despite my novice everyone wanted more, and so a got some great help from Josh Latta a great cartoonist to help me out on the videos.

And the weapon of choice for animating the cartoons….none other than Flash. At the time I didn’t know better but there is better animation software out there. I finally wised up and bought Preimer Pro and After Effects about a year into the job, but none the less it was and still is a great tool to create simple animations.

Below are some samples of my work. Head on over to KidChess.com to see more.

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Craig — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:52:31 +0000

Part of my slowly growing animation package for AS2 and AS3. To browse my different classes and packages in Flash actionscript visit my classes download page or go to my downloads page to directly download the AS code.

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Cartoons made in Flash

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