[Flash] All in One Shadow Tutorial

[Dudeman]

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http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/82060111/

I hope you find this helpful!

[Ice Cream Creature :>]

Oh this tutorial would be very helpful in my latest flash project.....KUDOS 2 U :>

[Omega]

Hmm... good job. Very simplistic yet effective.

[Jousteh]

Thanks alot. This was just what I needed.
<3 joo!!!!!!

[Raffi]

Cool.

Now I need to find out Cicida's secret of animating =[

[Lixu]

The tutorial is very good! And those mirror idea's are excellent, I use them myself now.

And, those animations are fantastic! Really smooth, are those done by line's?

-Lixu

[Ssjbryando]

Doesent load : ( if you still have the file could you upload it somewhere else, since the link doesent work anymore.

[Jeepa Da Creepa]

Ok that is awesome but you missed one type of shadow, the built in shadow.
Draw a stick and right click it, go to "Timeline Effects" Then to "Effects" Then click drop shadow, choose the options and click ok and there you go!

[Gavel]

Ok that is awesome but you missed one type of shadow, the built in shadow.
Draw a stick and right click it, go to "Timeline Effects" Then to "Effects" Then click drop shadow, choose the options and click ok and there you go!
No, go away. I'm pretty sure the reason he didn't add that was because he forgot to. This tutorial is for more advance effects for animation purposes. The only purposes the drop shadow filter would work in is text effects. Unless you actually use that effect in your stick figure animations.

[Dudeman]

Ok that is awesome but you missed one type of shadow, the built in shadow.
Draw a stick and right click it, go to "Timeline Effects" Then to "Effects" Then click drop shadow, choose the options and click ok and there you go!

Well, yeah, spazzy pretty much covered it. I didn't put it in because I felt it was not a very useful animation technique. If you use the filter in place of the other things in the tutorial, it will look like crap. That's why I felt like it was far too simple and not worthy of explanation. Infact, I couldn't write a reason to use it if I wanted to.


I didn't even use a drop shadow on the main title lol.

[Michael the Janitor]

this was really helpful, especially with the whole advanced mirror shadowing stuff
cheers for this

[Lixu]

Link/nor input doesn't work anymore, refresh it?

[Dudeman]

Link/nor input doesn't work anymore, refresh it?

Thanks for the insight.

I re-uploaded it to deviant art, so we won't have this problem anymore.

[somotong]

for the mirror shadow i can't find the opacity in the properties box ( i have CS3)

[Dudeman]

for the mirror shadow i can't find the opacity in the properties box ( i have CS3)

You have to select the symbol. Then, use the scroll box to find the "alpha" option.

That should do it.

[somotong]

oh ok,thanks for saying,cause you didn't say in the tut >.>

problem,when you select the frames,then i got to modify>transfrom>flip vertical i got aht right then i select all the frames,then convert them to symbol ?

[killball]

What The Dudeman22 Of The Advanced Mirror Shadow Of The Animations In Flash

[axerman1001]

I need some help about the copying and pasting frames to the movie clip i was like "whaaaaaaa" lol BTW thanks for the tut

[3bor]

LOL NICE TUT :b

[the afro ninja]

Shit, nice one. This helps out a lot of newbs like me. :P

[Stick Demon]

Cool, those shadows were really usefull, i like the circle shadow

[Lixu]

Go back at Dynamic light source and you end up in the advanced mirror.

[Toais]

:( i can't get the basic one to work lol, my shadow always plays backwards to my animation:Nooooooo:
any tips?

[Rahlaft]

ive got a prob: the whole tut is nice but on the mirror shadow i can get the frames in the movie clip but how do i get the movie clip layer onto the main animation? second question how do I flip all the frames in once. im using flash mx. and yea im kind of a huge neewbie

[lost pariah]

awsome i needed tht keep it up

[lailai]

This is really cool! I'm trying it...

[tehninja6]

great tut. im a beginner/intermediate stick animator and need sum tips or wutevz. that would be cool if u took just a lil time to give sum technique tips in an animation tut. just a small request. thnx

[billster-knight]

do you really pay $9 for you to use flash forever?

[Foda]

sup Dudeman i have a question i think i fallowed the tut well but this happened

http://www.truploader.com/view/755526

download if you think you know what the problem is please

[Kieran.]

sup Dudeman i have a question i think i fallowed the tut well but this happened

http://www.truploader.com/view/755526

download if you think you know what the problem is please

it would be better you to PM him about it...

[l300l30]

You have to select the symbol. Then, use the scroll box to find the "alpha" option.

That should do it.

what about CS4?

ohh wait nvm i got it lol sorry

[man snipper8]

Is there a way to make a shadow so the white edeges dont appear coz my backgrounds in colour and the white looks bad

[hazetray]

thanks alot, now my animation iz alot moar better:Happy: