Segmented Character Draw front view,
profile, etc. for your character and scan it. Import
to Flash. Make a new movie
clip symbol. I am naming mine, reptile man
Test selecting the
background ...
Any areas
that select inside the character needs their outlines
completed:
You are needing to
get to this, wherever the character is broken away from the background
...
Next, each
segmented part needs to be colored. It helps to make your own color
chart.
Make this colored
art a movie clip ... mine is named reptile
man mc:
Segment the body Now we need to break
apart the segmented body parts. We will select body parts, copy,
make new graphic symbols for
each segment, edit, then drag back into the movie clip, matching
the position to the template. Here we go. Copy a part of the
lower leg from the new layer:
Make a new graphics
symbol ...
Paste in position into the new graphics symbol ... mine is called leg lower left:
Delete and erase
what you don’t want ...
... move
all so the center point is in a pivot point position, in other words,
where the segment joint will bend ...
Go back to
the full body movie clip symbol ...
LOCK the template
layer and make a new layer
for art ...
... and
move the leg back into position ... we now have a lower leg that could
be animated ... [I grayed out the template layer so you can see the
difference ...]
Follow this sequence
for every body part! |
