Tom Green takes a layered Photoshop document and adds motion to it in Flash using the Bones tool. If you want to follow along, the Photoshop document used in this tutorial is available for download. Also, for an introductory tutorial on using the Armature in Flash, watch David Stiller’s tutorial
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Tom is a professor of Interactive Multimedia through the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s School of Media Studies. Like all faculty in the program, Tom believes his students deserve to be taught by instructors who are regarded as experts in their field and whose knowledge of their subject is current with industry best practice.
woohooo thank you very much
[...] Tom Green – The Flash CS4 Bones Tool [...]
The video hangs and doesn’t play for any of the tutorials.
What in the world is going on? I am in the middle of watching a video tutorial and a stupid ad for the magazine interrupts and now the tutorial is gone. Who’s foolish idea is this? Are you guys providing the tutorials or not??????
This may be more to do with your connection speed at the time you were watching it. Slow connection and the video reaches the end of the buffer, and it loops back to the beginning.
Hope that helps.
RC
[...] Tom Green – The Flash CS4 Bones Tool [...]
Amazing! Absolutely amazing! I will be playing with this!!!!!
is this only for cs4 or will it work with cs3 also
Thanks for your tutorial.I am learning Flash Animation.it will be very useful.
Thank you for the tutorial, it was excellent! I have been considering upgrading to Flash CS4 (from CS3) for an upcoming project, and I think the Bones tool (and how easy this tutorial shows it is to use) has persuaded me to do just that.
BTW, Josh – the Bones tool is a new feature in Flash CS4, so the instructions in this tutorial will not work in CS3.
I just bought CS4 Design Premium and this is the first thing I tried out and it is really easy, fun, and cool looking. I can see a lot of possibilities with this feature.
Josh #2, unfortunately not. The bones tool is new in CS4 and Flash Player 10… sorry if that messes you up!
hmm i dont get this, do u have to convert each of the ps layer into a symbol ?
I am so sorry for not replying, kubbr. The answer is yes, each layer to be aniumated must be a Flash movieclip.
Great tool!!!
How you convert it to a movie clip???
TyBy: Select the object on the stage. Right Click and select create symbol from the pop down menu. Alternatively simply select the object on the stage and press F8 or select Modify>Create Symbol.
thanks.
But several things were unsaid and unclear. The bitmap images needed to each be made into symbols in order to use the bone tool. It would have been better to give more detailed instructions on that for beginners.
jb
I make that very clear when I open the Flash library and show the pieces imported in from Phoptoshop.
I was wondering if there was a video that shows how to break an image into layers in photoshop before moving over to flash in order to animate. I am new to the adobe setup so any help advice as to where to start and the basics I’m missing to complete this would be much appreciated. Thanks
Chicadelsol:
Simply select the object using the Lasso Tool and cut and paste it into a new Pshop layer.There are a few other methods but this one is a good place to start.
yes great tool and great tutorial thank you
Awesome!! You saved my day …was struggling so hard to learn the bone tool…finally got a good vid..m gonna share it to my friends for sure…
Thanks again..and Keep posting.
P.S : I love all your tutorials..very much helpful