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I have been watching alot of flash animation recently and I wanted to try it for myself.
It's my first go and I'm not suggesting this is great but it pleases me and I thought I would show and tell.

Here!

The reason it's stolen is because Bill Bailey, one of my favourite comedians, did a little hand-puppet (well, minus the puppets) version of this on his "Cosmic Jam" show..so I took the idea for a practice.

Anyway, comments and help are, as ever, appreciated mrgreen

:EDIT: Ooh..sorry about the bigness and unsquareity! There aren't many places that upload flash...I'll try my best to rectify the situation. [done]

Don't use motion tweens. Animation looks best when you actually draw your frames as opposed to sliding bits about.

I'm not sure about how to go about that though because you don't seem to be able to draw on one layer with another underneath to get them the same or chop and change bits like you can in photoshop or even imageready. I wanted to make the monster transformation much smoother and draw several different in between monster but as you can see I only managed one and it was difficult to only change it a little bit.

I like the way the drawings come out in flash and that makes them so much fun to do.

That is very kind of you, thanks!