The Art of Cartooning with Flash Book

	Introduction
Ch. 1	Everything You Learned on Saturday Morning is Still True	1
	It Ain't Easy	2
	Moving Stuff Around is not Animation	2
	The Fundamentals	2
	The Twelve Principles of Character Animation	3
	Squash and Stretch	4
	Anticipation	4
	Staging	5
	Straight-Ahead vs. Pose-to-Pose Action	6
	Follow-Through and Overlapping Action	6
	Slow-in and Slow-out	8
	Arcs	8
	Secondary Actions	9
	Timing	9
	Exaggeration	10
	Solid Drawing	11
	Appeal	12
Ch. 2	Drawing is a Funny Business	14
	Don't Grow Up	16
	Divide and Conquer	16
	Live for the Pain	17
	Consult the Masters	18
	Have an Idea (PLEASE)	18
	Your Studio	19
	Line Quality and Shading	20
	Backgrounds	20
	Violations of the Normal Must be the Rule	21
	Have Fun While Doin' It, and Others Will Have Fun Viewin' It	21
	Enjoy Your Work	21
Ch. 3	Animation Basics in Flash	22
	Take Your Limitations and Make Them a Style	24
	Digital Puppets	24
	Scanning For Flash	25
	Clean Up and Color	26
	Building the Digital Puppet	29
	Animating the Puppet	35
	Sound the Bell	41
Ch. 4	Principles Applied	42
	Slow-in and Slow-out (Easing)	44
	Arcs	44
	Making an Arc	45
	Squash and Stretch	46
	The (non) Center Point	47
	Skewing	52
	Squashing and Stretching Multiple Chunks	54
	Timing	58
	Straight Ahead and Pose-to-Pose	59
	Exaggeration	65
	Anticipation	66
	Overshoot	68
	Bouncing	70
	Follow-through and Overlapping Action	71
	Appendages	71
	Completion	74
	Moving Hold	75
	Secondary Action	75
	In Conclusion	75
Ch. 5	Character Chunks and Walk Cycles	76
	Working with Joints	78
	Knees	78
	Elbows	83
	Picking up Chunks	85
	Shape Tweens	87
	Facial Animation	88
	Mouth Off	89
	Eye Eye, Captain	89
	Loops	90
	The Walk Cycle	92
	Break Down the Drawing	93
	Keep Those Feet on the Ground	95
	The Sneak	103
	The Run Cycle	104
	Brute force, Perseverance, and Pixie Dust	105
Ch. 6	Now What? Character and Story	106
	The Two Most Important Things	108
	Character	108
	Whaddaya Want?	109
	Story	110
	Tips or Cliches? You Make the Call	111
	Establish Characters and Conflict ASAP	111
	Endear the Protagonist to the Audience Early	112
	Make Sure Every Scene is About Something	112
	Give the Characters Something to Do	113
	Make Sure the Story is About Something	113
	Give the Audience a Way In	113
	Funny Doesn't Come in the (Flash) Box	114
	Sto-re-boarding	116
	Don't Say It if You Can Show It	116
	Use the Language of Film	117
	Dialogue	121
	Building the Animatic	121
	Scan the Final Storyboards	121
	Record Scratch Dialogue	122
	Place Storyboards Scans into a Video Editor	122
	Editing	122
	Juxtapose	123
	Let it Fly	123
	Want to Understand Editing?	124
	Directing	125
	Know Your Craft	125
	Steal from the Best	125
	Know the Rules Before You Break Them	125
	Act It Out	126
	Directing Actors	126
	That's a Wrap!	127
Ch. 7	Building Scenes	128
	Backgrounds	130
	Building a Scene	131
	Start with the Background	131
	Looping the Background	133
	Add Characters	136
	Adjust the Composition	140
	Add Foreground Elements	142
	Make it Nice	147
	Combining Scenes	150
	Camera Moves	151
	Multiplane	151
	Zooming	154
	Transitions	157
	Fade to Black	157
	Iris	158
	Wipes	160
	Dissolves	162
	Fade to Next Chapter	163
Ch. 8	Sound-Half the Experience	164
	The Truth About Streaming Sound	166
	Recording	167
	Sound Editing 101	167
	Dialogue	168
	Setting the Timing	169
	Dealing with Noise	169
	Music	170
	Sound Effects	170
	Mixing	171
	Quiet on the Set!	171
Ch. 9	Makin' the Show - Jickett's Speed Shop	172
	Writing the Episode	174
	Storyboarding	175
	Creating the Animatic	180
	Recording Dialogue	181
	Picking up the Chunks	182
	Jickett's Shot by Shot	182
	It's a Wrap!	219
App. A	Pull Up to the Window	220
	Clean-up	222
	Preloading	222
	Dumping Flash to Video	224
	The "Falpha" Channel	224
	Let's Go to the Videotape	225
App. B	References	226
	Recommended Reading	228
	Websites	228
	Twinkle Sites	228
	More Sites	228
	Other Fave Sites	228
	John K's Top 12 Favorite Funny Movies	229
	John K's Top 12 "Battery Rechargers"	229
App. C	Building a Better Button	230
	Easy-Click Text Buttons	232
	Buttons as Entertainment	233
	The Jumping Robot Button	233
	The Two-Stage Robot Button	236
	Index	242
	What's on the CD	252