How to Make Free Animations Online

So, you want to make easy Flash Anime, huh? Well here is a handy tutorial to make easy,fun, and FREE animation right online! You will get to publish your animations on the site, and you get to watch other user's anime, too!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet Connection
• Commitment
• Patience
• Confidence

1. 
    
   AniBoom Homepage

   Go to aniboom.com or click the link under resources

2. Click The Link on the top-right corner: "Sign Up"

3. Fill in the required information- Username, Password, E-mail, etc.

4. 
    
   Check Your E-mail

   Check your E-mail. Click the link to confirm the registration.

5. 
    
   ShapeShifter

   HOW TO USE THE SHAPESHIFTER SOFTWARE
   
   AniBoom lets you use the free ShampeShifter software to make easy, free, high-quality, basic flash animations. Click the "Create" tab at the top of the AniBoom Homepage. Read about the SapeShifter and then click "Launch ShapeShifter".

6. 
    
   A Dog Formed on ShapeShifter

   ShapeShifter is very basic- and so you have the basic shapes: Square, Circle, Triangle, and Semi-Circle. Left-click the shape and hold. Drag it into the white area. You will see that with the for shapes, there are many things you can form.

7. 
    
   Bird on ShapeShifter

   After forming your first frame (fancy way of saying "forming your charecter") Click the button on the lower part of the ShapeShifter Window. It is bordered with red and has the drawing of a plus sign.

8. 
    
   Umbrella on ShapeShifter

   Then move something on the charecter- you know, move its hand, legs, body, or something. then click the Frame button again.

9. Click Play- (The button with the picture of a triangle pointing to the right.) You should now see the playback of the animation you made ( ex.- it's hand, leg, or body is moving, etc.) AniBoom plays it over and over and over again.

10. After you get the hang of it, it will be easy. You can make pretty long animations.

11. Click Save Ate the top right corner. Fill out the needed info to publish your animation on aniboom.com!

Tips & Warnings

• As you know, this tutorial is very brief. There are many, many more things you can do with shapeshipter. Click "Help"on the Resources section on this page to learn everything else.

Resources

• http://www.aniboom.com/
• Help!

[mralarcon]

on 3/28/2009 good info will use this

[gatunibi]

on 2/23/2009 I would love to do this!!!Thanks for the info!5*