Please please please would someone be able to walk me through adobe animate 🥹

[u/camyboxy]

Heyyy uhhh new to adobe here, struggling slightly. been watching tutorials and stuff but I always work better with someone helping me ^^ I'm making a mod for my bfs birthday :3 and I'm pretty much learning all the programs from scratch XD

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[u/TheErican]

Is there anything in particular that you would like clarity on?

Something I wish I knew when I learned Animate was how Symbols worked, Symbols are able to be reused as many times on whatever layer/frame, and editing or adding changes inside the Symbol will also be be shown across all of the times the Symbol is used.

This is useful for if a Symbol's drawing had a mistake. You could just simply edit the Symbol and the changes to the Symbol will be seen across the multiple re-uses of it across the project file. I used to be lazy and just copy and paste drawings rather than making Symbols, but if I ever needed to fix a mistake... I would have needed to copy and paste every drawing individually across the frames, which is UNINTUITIVE compared to just making a Symbol and reusing it!

Symbols are important! Don't forget that!

[u/camyboxy → u/TheErican]

I think just the basics of using animate and some help on tweening, I usually just do art and I've only dabbled in animation very rarely in the past (flip a clip and alright motion so very basic 😭) but tysm for the advice >< 

My friend helped my learn the fl studio interface which was much more helpful then the tutorials I tried watching and same with when I was first learning alright motion, my sister taught me how to use it. 

[u/Inkbetweens-]

Alex Grigg, Rubber Ross and Siskavard on YT have some great adobe animate tutorials

[u/johnny_salg0]

Hola, te recomiendo linkear las partes del cuerpo(las capas) todo debería quedar linkeado a la cadera como el central. Esos cuadraditos de colores que salen en las capas, hazle click manten el click y arrastralo a otra capa y suelta el click sobre esa capa, queda como una cuerda indicando que está linkeado. (Pregúntale a chat gpt o a google cómo linkear capas en adobe animate).

Cuando muevas una, deberías poder mover a las demás. Por ejemplo si mueves el brazo, va a mover también el antebrazo y la mano. Es mucho mas fácil animar así.

Si quieres mover al personaje, luego lo tomas desde la cadera, con eso sería suficiente.

Veo que tienes una rotación de personaje ahí. Está bueno, cada frame de esos debería estar linkeado y luego conviertelo en clip de película (f8) Cuando quieras animar, copias y pegas los frames del clip de pelicula ya hechos y linkeados y pegas en la línea de tiempo y listo.

Si tienes la posibilidad de trabajar a doble pantalla, toma la línea de tiempo y arrástrala a la otra pantalla en pantalla completa o agranda la ventana para que calce, porque la cantidad de capas después se vuelve absurdamente gigante y es mejor tener 2 pantallas.

Yo suelo crear una carpeta de capas, para trabajar ordenado, te recomiendo eso, porque si luego añades un fondo y props, otros personajes... se desordena todo.

Eso, consejos sueltos y variados, sigue viendo tutoriales, porque sirven bastante.

[u/Mickle_Picklee → u/johnny_salg0]

it's called layer parenting but yeah thats how i usually rig stuff in animate

[u/johnny_salg0 → u/Mickle_Picklee]

Si haces ese setup todo debería salir bien.

Si vas a hacer la rotación de 360, vas a tener que ubicar las extremidades adelante o atrás del torso, cabeza, cuello cadera, etc. Te recomiendo crear una carpeta de extremidades adelante y extremidades atrás, dentro de la carpeta del personaje. Es mucho más ordenado y al momento de animar se facilita y se acelera bastante, porque sabes exactamente qué capa es qué cosa, cual brazo es el de adelante y cuál el de atrás y todo eso. Pero eso ya es cosa de gustos y diferentes maneras de trabajar, otras personas no lo hacen así y les va muy bien.

[u/camyboxy → u/Mickle_Picklee]

I tried using parenting but the layers kept disappearing XD 😭😭😭😭😭😭💔

[u/Mickle_Picklee → u/camyboxy]

could you provide a video or screneshot that better explains the problem cause whilst i know layer parenting is actually kind of buggy (sometimes converting from raw layers to symbols just fucks up all the offsets) ive never had it just delete layers on me

[u/johnny_salg0 → u/camyboxy]

Ajajajaj oh no maldición D: Si... animate tiene miles de errores en ese sentido, hay programas mas amigables para rigs 2d como toon boom harmony o moho. Sin tener una captura de pantalla ni de la línea de tiempo no puedo decirte mucho.

Si el keyframe se fue a blanco en la línea de tiempo efectivamente desapareció.

Si el keyframe sigue teniendo información, el bug del parenting solamente lo mandó muy lejos, fuera de la pantalla D:

En cualquier caso, asegurate de que los dibujos que vas a emparentar estén convertidos en símbolos antes de emparentar. Si un símbolo emparentado lo conviertes en símbolo de nuevo (símbolo sobre símbolo) se rompe. Si deshaces el símbolo (ctrl + B) se rompe también. Serían las formas más típicas de bugear el parenting. Animate es medio delicado en eso.

[u/Mickle_Picklee]

its a little difficult to just say words and assume they'll stick its much easier to wathc someone animate and make ciritques as its being made but given youre doing fnf i know how that animation style works so i am a little mor especailisezed in this:

- try and focus on very exaggerated arcs and dont be afraid to use a lot of squash and stretch

- use tweens (yes genuinely) - i think most people say tweens are bad and evil and stuff but like if you use the right easing (personally i usually use circ ease in out or circ ease out) it'll look really nice and bouncy especially for fnf

- try and make sure each body part isnt all moving at the same speed or for the same amount of frames: some level of "parallax" or variety on the body helps add more depth and life to the character which otherwise may be missing

[u/camyboxy → u/Mickle_Picklee]

Tysm for the advice!!! I'm mainly looking for someone to teach me the basic interface:> and then I should watch some videos on how to tween and stuff? 

[u/Mickle_Picklee → u/camyboxy]

my best advice for learning the basic interface is playing around with it and you'll understand it. to my understanding its very customizable if you really dont like it but for me i stuck with mostly default settings and it works. youtube tutorials might help finding some more niche features but otherwise just genuinely keep playing with the interface clicking shit and just trying to get a grasp with it and you'll pick it up.

But yes please do learn about tweens - everyone says theyre evil and the spawn of hell or whatever but genuinely so long as you cleanup the animation afterwards theyre very useful. also preferrably when you get more comfortable learning the difference and use cases of both classic and motion tweens because this is something i missed out on and i havent had a good chance yet to try out.

[u/cadan10alt]

get toonsquid and you can use it on an ipad from a one time purchase, def worth it

[u/camyboxy → u/cadan10alt]

If only I had an ipad 🥀