• Animated Swf Files

Fire is one of the hardest things to do, but there are a few tricks you can do to get your flame animations to look pretty good.Shown below is one of hundreds of very useful reference video you can find online.Only 8 years ago, footage like this was nearly impossible to find anywhere, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many other free video-sharing websites has made this type of reference material accessible to all of us. Take advantage of this, before starting a brand new FX animation, take an hour to collect videos and carefully study them.Free software and plugins like, and allows you to download and/or convert these Online movie files to save, collect and view on your computer.The best one to use for ripping reference from YouTube is.I could post these all day, but in the end only practice and experimentation in Flash will allow you to figure out the shapes, forms and spacing of your fire effects. Ultimately these videos are only reference to get inspired on how to design your fire, learn how it behaves, and discover more about its timing and the many shapes it can inhabit. So lets get started.There's 3 types of fire.1) When it has a wide and stable base and the flames converge/compress inwards as the tips of the flames rise up and leave the base while they dissipate. Not much contrast in the shape, 80% of the volume is in the core of the barely-moving fire base. 3) When it acts like a seaweed, whipping back and forth, rising/dissipating upwards, as it dances side to side, sort of like how smoke fumes ripple upwards while shrinking at the tip.Here's how to do this sort of fire.For me the toughest part of drawing out a fire cycle is the first and last drawings. Everything is based upon this structured/chaotic shape that you create, the length, width, scale, proportions thiese forms take decide the characteristics and personality and function your fire has to serve.

Even torch fire (thick/rounded base with a thin/tall tip) follows the same rules, just less exaggerated. Windows has blocked this software because it can't verify the publisher sage 300. The smaller the flames, the less outlandish they should be, but always building up, breaking off, and rising upwards. Notice how there's hashmarks on this one. This helps in keeping track of the different parts of the flame, other wise you can paint yourself in a corner when it comes to figuring out how to make the flame cycle, similar to rising smoke fumes, keeping track of all the main parts is vital for when you're figuring out how to make the animation loop in on itself.Here's another approach to take for building and animating simple 2D fire animation:I find the following theory (or a simpler version of it) to be a good way to start. So beginning to imagine a bubble rising - enlarge and expand this bubble upwards, draw it out in flash, straight-ahead, just with the onion-skin ON to see the previous frame - keep it simple.Once you've done it, take the art on frame 1 and place it on the second to last frame, then the second frame's art and place it on the last frame, that way you make a complete cycle.

Animated Swf Files

Then delete the first two drawings.Should look like this.