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| Modifying Frames~ |
| This will be a short discussion on modifying frames when making signatures from pre-animated alphabets. No screen shots are included, and this is for informational purposes only. Occasionally you will find a set of pre-animated alphas that all have different numbers of frames. In order to make your animation work, all animated alphas must have the same number of frames before you begin moving them to your new animation. Here's how I do it. First determine how many frames each letter has. Then choose the letter with the fewest frames as your guideline. This will be the number of frames you will want all the alphas to have. Open the letters one by one. Look carefully at each frame. Some of the frames are the same, or nearly the same. Delete the frames, one at a time and view the animation. Continue until you have deleted enough frames to make your animation have the same number of frames as the one you chose as your guideline. You will just have to experiment through this process, and sometimes it can be time consuming, and other times it is fairly easy Also, you will need to set the frame speed of your animation, the one you are building, to the frame speed of each frame of your guideline animation. Have fun with this and experiment. That's how you learn! One last note about this tutorial. I am sure that there are probably quicker ways of doing some of the steps discussed throughout this tutorial, and many of you will discover these along the way. I tried to write this tutorial with the beginning animator in mind and hope that perhaps it has been a valuable learning experience for all. |
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