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How Did You Make that Flash Animation? Part 3: The Jumping Butthead
The Leg Jump Flash Animation. Go back to Part 2: Click here
Flash Cartoon Lesson Contents

Part 1
-The Idea
-The Drawing
-Making the Animation

Part 2:
-Making the Animation (continued)

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Part 3: The Jumping Leg Animation

Animating the Shadow
The Jumping Butthead Animation.
(The Leg Jump. )
Here in more detail is the animation of the Leg Jump and a comparison between leg action of the the first animation and the final version.
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See the final version of the leg movement animation:
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Right: The stage for the leg jumping animation.

There are three layers for each of the leg and foot parts: legupper, leglower and foot. The animation is 12 frames in length.
Below: A Frame-by-Frame Comparison between the two Leg Jumping Versions
Frame number 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
First Version
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Final version
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Above: The original foot and leg combination was flat - no movement other than going up vertically and coming back down.
The bottom "Final version of Leg movement" shows how the leg squats down and takes off then arches forward and returns back to its original position in frame 11 .
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