I had a lot of fun making my simple character! In class I did a very simple sketch of a little girl, but once I started playing around with illustrator, I changed a lot of my ideas and ended with a little red head. I originally wanted to make a bobble head character with a small body and big goofy head, but I ended up giving her a proportionate body. I Googled little girl clip art and took ideas from different cartoons to make my own unique character. I am still playing around with animations. I want her to wave and eventually to blink. I am not sure yet how I am going to do that, but I will keep playing around with Flash. I have been looking at some cartoons on TV to see how they move and definitely got some ideas. I want her eyebrows and mouth to move to help change her facial expression. There is still a lot that I need to learn in Flash, and hopefully once I get better, I can have my cartoon do a lot more.
Your girl is so cute! I love her eyes I know to help with mouth changing for talking there is a good video series at lynda.com titled 2D Animation and under the first chapter there is a title called Rigging Replacement Animation in Flash it shows you how to make the mouth move to make the character formally talk. Theres other helpful hints in that title that will answer some of your questions.
ReplyDeleteshe is so cool!!!! i like how you made her look like a little kinder-gardener. I can totally see her being like on a tv show on disney or nickelodeon!
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