Quick Cartoon Head August 22, 2007

1. Open new document in flash.

2. Draw black circle.

3. Add new layer.

4. Draw two white circles for eyes.

5. Add new layer.

6. Draw two small black circles.

7. Add new layer.

8. Add shadow to your cartoon head.

9. Add new layer.

10. Draw black circle for shadow bellow your character.

11. That’s it. You have now your cartoon head and you’re ready for making cartoon.

Flash Tutorial- August 22, 2007

If you want a special mouse cursor in your Flash movies, all you have to do is pay some attention to this tutorial. It will be explained how to personalize, change the appearence of the user’s mouse cursor in Flash, in 5 easy steps.1. Create a new Flash document, 400×400 size. Name the first layer content.
2. Create a new MovieClip that holds the mouse cursor you want user see on your website.Name it MouseCursorMC. Make an instance of it in the first frame of the content layer and name it mouseCursor_mc.
3. Create a new layer and give it the name actions.
4. In the first frame of the actions layer put this code in:
Mouse.hide();// to hide the actual mouse cursor
startDrag(“mouseCursor_mc”,true);// start drag the cursor_mc MovieClip across the Flash movie

5. Press CTRL+Enter and test the movie. Nice job!

Mouse follower August 22, 2007

1. Open new document (any size, I’ll set 500*500)

2. Draw circle just with stroke, without fill color

3. Convert circle to movie clip and add him a istance name: circle

4. Add new layer

5. On new layer, on first frame, write this code in actionscript window:

code

_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
positionX = _root._xmouse – 55;
positionY = _root._ymouse – 50;
circle._x = circle._x + (positionX – circle._x)/15
circle._y = circle._y + (positionY – circle._y)/15
}