The PBS kids show ‘Between the Lions’ has been airing occasional Flash-animated segments. Animated by Todd Gallina, of ‘Cooking with Bigfoot’ fame, the simplistic and sleekly stylish shorts are aimed at the diaper gang. Todd draws pencil layouts, and then pencil tests in Flash, as you can see on his website. The finished product is completely vector, and based on Todd’s original character designs for the segments. Todd has posted a sing-a-long segment from the show that features fish, cowboys and gorillas.

Over at Todd’s website, intermediate and novice Flash animators should plunk down in front of his two well-produced tutorials. The first tutorial starts with storyboarding and then moves into design and layout cleanup. Todd’s method of smoothing out the linework in Flash is one approach, but I actually recommend using a pen tablet and stroking the lines in Flash or Illustrator.

The second tutorial deals specifically with character animation, and Todd uses characters from ‘Cooking with Bigfoot.’ Great stuff, Todd.

Tags: Between the Lions, PBS

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