I have a question

[Knives]

I have been watchin a lot of stick figure movies lately and I've decided i want to learn how to animate and create the graphics for animation. I was thinking about getting the tab 2.0 does anyone know if this is good for creating stick animations? I am attaching my first gif.

[LorentzForce]

Don't know about the tools, but there's only one thing that makes stick figure movies come alive other than just being cool; the movements are fluid. The artist has a greater control of the joints (due to the ease to do so) and thus makes good 'action' movies, like Matrix, or some martial art thing.

[skynes]

I thought it was done in Flash.

[HikariChan]

lol me too

[ThaKladd]

Most of the better one's are made in flash - because its easy to make the movements there, as I have experieced the time I tried flash.

But I have also made some movies in gif, using Animation Shop 3. I have also tried a painting program called "Fractal Painter"(i think) what I liked, but then I lost it...

the worst thing with gif is that you have to draw the figure so many times(or use copy paste, but then you have to edit the pic anyway) - and that something you dont need with flash.

Good luck anyway..

[ThaKladd]

oh.. i forget.. Tab 2.0 is a good program that should be easy to use, and to make stick figure movies. But I think that if you want matrix effects its easyer with Flash... They are not comperable because the style is so different and how you draw.. (I have not tried TAb 2 myself)

Flash, I think, is hard to learn... But then again, Tab 2.0 support's flash, and you can import from and export to flash movies...

[Knives]

oh.. i forget.. Tab 2.0 is a good program that should be easy to use, and to make stick figure movies. But I think that if you want matrix effects its easyer with Flash... They are not comperable because the style is so different and how you draw.. (I have not tried TAb 2 myself)

Flash, I think, is hard to learn... But then again, Tab 2.0 support's flash, and you can import from and export to flash movies...

Thanks guys!

[uc pseudonym]

If you're really serious about it, 3DSMax is the way to go. Flash, however, is the most practical alternative.

Also, I'd like to echo LorentzForce: fluidity of motion is one of the most important things. Aside from this, however, also do a bit of thinking about what will happen in the animation, and plan out your fight coreography before hand.