Well, maybe i should have found out about it sooner, but i just jumped straight in and began drawing… didn’t look at te size of the area i was working to, just pushed through to about 1500 frames (no, not every frame, just the animatic…).

So, then i try to export and it can’t handle a file over about 700px wide it would seem. Fine, i’ll render it at 600 wide. But now the animation is really small, and can hardly be seen.

Try camera layer, you say? Right! Oh, hang on now nothing renders, though i do get a folder with an image sequence of the entire thing….

I think this may not be for me.

In import into Flash proved difficult with 1500, 1000px wide jpg’s, and after a whole lot of crashing, went and batch resized the images for import in Photoshop. A million years later, importing a few humdred at a time seemed the best way.

Then came the deleteing of static frames – when pencil spat out the jpg sequence the were 12 frames or jpgs for every second that the picture stood still as well as for motion. This was expected but it did lead to a bit more arseing around than i was perhaps wanting.

Is there a lesson learned?

Yep.

Anyway, here’s where it’s up to now spat out by Flash… the timing is still pretty bad but it’s progress people, progress!