Flash Frame-By-Frame Animation: Detailed Animation Part III

Although I usually save fills for a separate stage, in this case I went ahead and filled in the space outlined for the upper lip, simply because it’s solid black and it gives me a decent reference point. Now it’s time to move on to the next frame; in the past lessons we’ve started with the first and last frames before working through in-betweens in successive, non-sequential stages, but for this lesson you’ll most likely be better off just working in sequential order from the first frame through to the last. You’ve got your in-between sketches to guide you, and between those and the retraced frames you’ll have enough references to keep your motion animation on track while making sure that the adjustments you make while drawing your outlines will match with the shapes in the previous frame.