when i ad a trial for Cs3, i was too stupid to figure out how to tween, and i thought i would get flamed, but bad tweening is possibly the worst kind of cheap animation there is. i was ashamed only once out of twice. :D

Wow, I didn't know that lil tool was there. Thanks for the heads up!

*high five*

I thought this was only for Flash 10?

: But I'm not joking.

Listen to Utah , he speaks wise words

and a tweening animation can look pretty bad without easing , like ... REALLY BAD

I used to have an extension that did that in MX, I had no idea it was now included with flash.

Thank you.

Yeah I only learned that a couple months ago... very useful :D PS thanks for making that image dummy proof ;P

Yup Custom Easing was Fully Covered in Rtil's Anipedia. You shouldfind and link it because It's full of animated examples and whatnot.

Anipedia is greatness..

As if I don't already know that shit. PFFF

Good tips.. Thanks much bro.

I'm still doing that middle keyframe hack. NOTHING CAN STOP ME.

When I would tween I would alternate between Ease In and Ease Out for every other tween, or just use Ease Out. It made for some very funky animation. I never used Custom Wasing though, I might give it a try.

And now my balls hurt.

i used tween once. lets just say teh results where... interesting!

yea, i know.

and im ASHAMED. because i dont know about this guy.
noiw, the other one, is obvious.

I've known that for a while and I didn't make a big deal about it :l

Before that little graph came about we have to walk 50 miles in the snow and ice to get our tweens to work properly.

rtil wrote a tutorial on tweening? That's cool but...doesn't he hate tweening more than hitler hates matzoh balls?

i was wishing for one of these just last night.
Thanks.

I tried that once or twice but it never seems to work properly so I just stick with the middle keyframe technique.

Yea. Luis taught me that trick. :)

BTW, we need to play some COD4 sometime soon.

You JUST NOW found out about custom easing?

When I saw that, I was like "oh boy, I bet they'll let me save preset graphs so easing won't be annoying!" I was quickly disappointed. :'[

I still don't see why you couldn't tween the early scenes in TM2. >8(
I know humanoid movements can be demanding, but I've eased full human characters many times doing things just as complicated as that scene, if not more so. :S

Hey thanks for telling informing us about this i never knew about this 0_0 well it's tim*e to learn!~

Meant to say "couldn't ease" in that last comment.

Also, I thought it was there before 8, but I'm probably wrong.

Hey JohnnyU love ya :3.

custom easing works better when using a mouse on that graph btw.

:)

To be perfectly honest, I think fbf is ten times more rewarding, and tweens are for lazy jerks with no patience, but hey, whatever gets us another TANKMEN.

If it has to be tweentastic, IT BEST BE RICH WITH COCK JOKES.

"its true...i skipped a few scenes

it's not that it's complicated - I've done far more complex stuff than that that I've never posted (for a variety of reasons) but it just came down to me being lazy/not haivng fun dealing with it."
Oh, why didn't you say so? That I can totally understand. Too well.
Too well...

"double checked my copy of flash MX 2004, no custom easing. you could however do regular easing as far back as i can remember"
Ah. I guess that explains why I first noticed it shortly after I got 8 a couple years ago. I dunno. It just always felt like one of those "I never noticed that" things that must've been there a while.
Oh yeah, I've been easing since Flash 5. I was just talking about the graph thing.

i will try maybe it will help me :P

Tweening around Private Skittles?

gracias brotha

i'll look into this NOW
funny though, i had the EXACT same way of easing with tweens, the keyframe in the middle and all.

i look foreward to more tips, and toons from you friend

oh, and expect a tankman spoof from me before april this year :D

click on EDIT and do the curves LMAO

What a great revelation! I was never aware that there was such an option in Flash. Whenever I tween, I drag the object from point A to point B say 50 frames and then every 10 frames, I manually select the location of the tween but this is VERY interesting indeed.

Thank you's.

Well, this was sure thing that get me some time untill I find out its there. But I would love to have this thingy in shaping ease too.

Yea and i'm stick with Luis 'custom easing works better when using a mouse on that graph btw.' .. my words. ^^

yeah,
or use the corresponding mathematical function when using the drawing API

may it help ya out if you really need it..

Ooooh nice!
I used to do the same thing has you.

Please post on my user-blog.
I'll give you the best cookie I ever made.

I'm currently working on the flash series based on the "Hostile Galaxies" universe. I consider my movie to be some kind of a machinima, because almost all the animation is made manually with script, using special animation classes created by myself. They use different movement formulas, so the animation is quite precise, and I can add custom complicated acceleration/deceleration movement. Characters' faces are also created with my face engine, so I do not need to create their heads rotation animation each time - I only have to add a head (which is my engine's object class) to the stage and move the face direction (and eyes direction if needed) marker on screen. It's like that Site pal service. I know, this is an unusual way to create movies, but it frees me from doing different dirty work and just helps me to work faster.

WOOT FOR MACS

Anyway I knew about easing for a while, and when I do do animation (rarely), I add the ease cause it's ridiculously ease-y to implement, and makes my noob animations look less noobish.

When you're walking down the street, and you see a little ghost, what you gonna do about ghostbustaz! I think I'll actually use easing now, for serious, I've never used it before, maybe if I ever make a sequel to moogle adventures, the flash that no one frikin watched >:( I'll use your advice fo' sho'

*Low Five*

actually the easing settings you have are quite comfortable. I'm impressed. I usually rarely use that blasted graph. Was just messing about just now.

kewl..thnx

I feel ashamed, i no know who norm is :( time to break my flash cs3 by pressing random buttons

Tweens without easing. It's like watching a small child getting raped by a 10 ton grizzly bear. It's disgusting.

Custom ease tool is okay.. Though in my opinion you can get good flow without it just using digits if you're smart about it. I never really used it when flash 8 came out.

I remember YEARS ago I was preaching to everyone to use easing. Pretty sure I showed Masquatto, Cycon and a ton of others how to.

omg how did i not know about this? thanks :D

I don't understand. But then again I can't animate for my life. LET me save you the trouble. *slap*!

"I remember YEARS ago I was preaching to everyone to use easing. Pretty sure I showed Masquatto, Cycon and a ton of others how to."

Indeed, you showed it to me in April of '04. :]

... Head Lock. :P

COCK! :D

This is oldschool :D

Now it's copy motion and paste motion, it's the future, I've animated it. It's really handy at times.

hmm..? that is quite useful...but i cant tween that good anyway...i fbf everything, but i suppose with this newfound "edit" button (that has always been there) i possibly could try tweening with a little more technique...

THE CAKE IS A LIE :D

*Reads tutorial*

OR... even better... you can just animate your whole thing frame by frame.

(Thinks of Madness and shudders)

lol in the end u kill ur companion cube and u have to fight that giant robot lady and then in the end ....you get cake!

Dude, thanks a lot!

This will work MUCH faster then sticking a frame in the middle of a tween! :D

Thanks for telling this to the world :)

I knew about easing in and out, but now I can rule the world with custom easing MUHAHAH! Thanks

TWEENIMATION IS SO DIFFICULT AND COMPLEX ARRGH UGH FUcK THE STAR SYNDICATE HOW CAN THEY SAY THIS SHIT'S EASY

ANIMATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE SIMPLE AND FUN HOW WILL I ANIMATE MY NARUTO VS LINK FLASH NOW

so are you saying i should be very ashamed of myself as i don't know who the hell norm is and I don't know what "easing in your tween" is?
let alone I don't know how to make a flash toon at all
meh
In conclusion
I like marshmallows

Tweening is for lazy people.

I still add a center keyframe and ease in/out my tweens. Funny thing is, your custom ease looks kind of like the amplifier I use to fade in and out the beginning and end of audio clips when I move them around (like if I need to use only part of a song, and want it to sound like it starts and ends at those moments).

LAWL

We need to play COD4 sometime again. l8ter, dude.

You aren't often very kind, aren't you? :P

God, the one time I wasn't being sarcastic :(

No really. I always hated going through the process of easing in and out with all the things I'd experiment and try.

Thanks for callin me a SARCASTIC SAMURAI T_T

C is for cookie
that's good enough for me
oh C is for cookie
that's good enough for me
oh C is for cookie
that's good enougfh for me
oh cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C!
EVERYBODY NOW!

I didn't know about this. This is going to make my life MUCH MUCH easier. You should definitely do that daily/once a week/month blog that highlights a feature of flash you think artists should know about. I'd subscribe to it. You could call it "Johnny's Tidbits" or "Nuggets of Knowlege".

Thanks! I'm using this tip on my collab! :D

Wow man, thats useful, I think I'll do that.

when are you going to make a onther tankman johnny.

i cant tween :p i can, but not good.

so your still hooked to macs even after your hard drive died on you?
lol lmao omg wtf
peecees pwn own kapwn macks
BUY a PC

So this is why my animations always look like crap.

BTW U ARE THE BEST ! NEW TANKMEN IS GREAT!! PLEASE DO MORE :D

I <3 Tweens.

The new Tankmen kicks ass! You rule :)

I dunno but I've always believed tweening is a sign of laziness and weakness for real animators to use . If you ask me tweening less and working Frame by Frame more can eventually make you animate better even when you're not using Flash. Plus excessive tweening gives far more smoothness to animation than there should be. Your art and animations are great Mr.Utah, but artists like Mr.Adam Phillips will ALWAYS be far better because he tweens far less and does more frame by frame work as you can see in this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYmyD7 2-IWQ

Final verdict. Tweening GREAT for amateurs using Flash all their life, NOT for wannabe professional animators.

I myself use tweening strictly for camera movements like panning, tilting, etc. Thanks for cool tweening tips anyway though :-)

CHRiS

Norm Abrams has thought me many things through the power of PBS. What a dove tail joint is, Caulk can be used for more than just funny ufomisms and how to mispronounce the word "drawers" (the cabinet kind), but nothing that I can actually apply to really life. Thanks!

Penis penis penis penis penis.

So I tried this in Flash 8 and it's pretty badass. Problem, though; is there any way to reuse Custom Easing settings without having to redo the graph for every single tween?

you should totally make "TANKMEN: THE GAME"

BTW im stealing the private skittles for my icon :) kinda looks like my brother

Since I can't reply to a reply, I'll just say that I've figured out (if you haven't already) that you can just make all of your tweens at 0 (default) easing, then select all of them (on the timeline) and click edit. Do the graph, and that'll automatically apply the custom ease to all of them.

Tell me where the bonus scene is please! >.<
I can't find it >:(

I want to have your babies.

Dude, that easing works like a charm. You are an adonis of flash, man.

Hmm...

Woot, that looks interesting. Woot woot. Woot.

I don't even care for this totally awesome info you're providing because you're weak. DON'T INVITE ME TO GAMES IF YOUR FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE ALL PUSSY HURT AND KICK ME OUT BECAUSE IM THE ONLY DICKHEAD ON MY TEAM THAT KNOWS WHAT HE'S FUCKING DOING. Ps: I had fun, thanks for the fun first half Mr. Jeff.

Locust Jelly.

wat is tweening i dont understand that all i know is that its apparently a really cheap way of doing flash apparently and that alot of people hate it can someone please either PM me about it or just post in my user page please

have you thought of having in Tankmen ASLAV?

I wonder what a Tankmen Chibi would look like..

it looks hard whew

The new tankman kick ass.

I can't believe people didn't know about this lol.

Also if ou use the symbols of tankman and fbf with them like in madness for instance then the animation would be better and you could have all the character on one layer and it won't take two long to animate

All i got is flash 6 right now and tweening like won't work on it :(

Yeah.. Maybe I'm the one that was pussy hurt, I finally get to play a Gears with one of my heros and one of his friends kicks me out for playing the game.. You're one of the reasons I'm going to NY school of visual arts, just one.. But after I saw those Oil paintings you did.. and just your art in general I thought, hey thats pretty cool I wish I could do that.. I look forward to brining exclusive **QUALITY** content to Newgrounds in the near future.. Unlike the shit I have in my submissions record right now. :) Stamper is an influence too.. He's been really kind to me quite a few times and I really appreciate it.

Thanks.

RIGHT its that time again where i tell you about my religion so i have bin thinking people need to know more about KAS GOD OF CHAOS well i have come up with these things you need to know oh and i will put this into a story thing so yeah

before the world was ever made there was just a core and on that core there were a race called the kiee'ins they were living on the core of the world when some guy named guoipd the so called Christian "god" one day decided that their world was to tiny to fit all of the kiee'ins race now he was kinda of his head but he talked to all of the kiee'ins and they liked the idea of a bigger world so they got to work building and building and building still well their world was all must 2X as big they stopped and said wow look at how big our world has gotten and of a little time things were fine till one day guoipd then said "ummm this bigger world is alright but it could be bigger" so he asked the kiee'ins race if they would make it bigger but this time they said no and kicked guoipd out on his ass and so the kiee'ins lived on in more or less happiness but guoipd was pissed off really pissed off so him and his friends made a cult called Christianity which really pissed off the kiee'ins and so they fought over the century killing each other till all the body's of their race made the core much more bigger 4x as big so guoipd stopped and said hay i like it but their was now only 10 or so kiee'ins left in their world kas and guoipd and some of his friends kas was forced into the world to live in the nexsits which is an under underworld and guoipd re-named him self as the Christian GOD and his friends other gods of this world so thats the story of kas. well its alot more about his people but fuck you

tankmen .5 is #1 on the charts! how does that make you feel?

So I'm watching Darkman, and I thought of you sweetheart.

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Anipedia has been undergoing a lot of spam, and I've been cleaning it up.

My username there is "Eiduringi", by the way.

I love easing tweens, they just look so... awesome.

I almost never use custom easing. I still do the keyframe in the middle thing.

And iceblockclock's movies are perfect examples of how not to use tweens.

of course, now that I think of it, that's probably because I'm too much of a lazy bastard to make anything worth watching.

I oprefer fbf, but sometimes tweening gets just as good results (or better when you need a smooth movement). Thx for the tip anyway :P

My God!

You've had to return those damn video tapes for months!

And you're still renting tapes!?

Jesus Christ man! Your late fee must be ASTRONOMICAL!

Kewl.....lol i might use that .....im gunna get flash in like several days so thhis is usefull...il experiment....but i do so enjoy the idea of FBF a bit more and that will probably be they way ill go.....ty anyway for teh tips ^.^

Also.....whut console do you got COD4 for?I have it for teh Pc 0.0

Sweet! This'll be really useful thanks dude!

HAHA, I didnt know tweening had that power! and also lol @ ur garbage whislt.