Reply To: I want to make an animated music video of First of May, but weird art direction
Here is what I have so far. I have only been working a few hours a night because I have felt kind of ill during the day.
http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=almostdoneni5.swf
It's all done frame by frame as cut out animation, so it's very easy to adjust to make it look how I want. All the body parts are seperate peices, but they swap and switch drawings so it doesn't look like peices moving around, it's more about being able to tweak an arm instead of drawing the entire character over again, since I can't use Flash's 'tweening' feature the way I am making only his feet stay still when appropriate. I'm not smart enough to figure out how to make that work, so I just do it frame by frame. It's much easier for my brain.
http://imagesocket.com/view/frames50a.jpeg
I won't be able to do four minutes of this sort of quality* and attention to detail, if I want to finish by May 1, 2007, but it should be at least the quality of Flash stuff you'd see on TV rather than most of the stuff on the internet.
*this isn't an animation forum so I won't bore you with what I think is wrong with it, which I do think there are some things 