Oct
9
2007
Adobe MAX Event Unveils IK for Flash
Peter Elst, an Adobe Community Expert from Belgium, attended the recent Adobe MAX event in Chicago. He recorded this video below which shows a demonstration of what future versions of Flash might hold – namely IK. If you’re not familiar with that term, it stands for “inverse kinematics” or as it’s often called “bones.” Other 2D animation software packages, like Toon Boom Harmony, boast this feature, and Flash animators have been anxiously awaiting it for years. As Elst points out, the Adobe team who presented at MAX offered the caveat that this feature might not make into the next build or any future releases, but it’s cool to see it in action.
The presentation featured examples of non-keyframe animation, and plenty of other bells and whistles. Also check out Chris Georgenes’ blog to see cool new filters in the works.Thanks to Flash animator Tim Frost for the story tip.
Tags: Adobe, Toon Boom
October 9th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I hope that’s both for vector morphing as well as parenting!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I think I just wet myself…
October 9th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
yippie.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Great… So the feature which has been sorely lacking in Flash is demonstrated but offered up only as a possibility. Way to get our hopes up over possibly nothing, Adobe.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:06 am
I think you need to read between the lines, why would they waste time figuring out a big cock tease?
Adobe needs something big for Flash and this is it. It looks like it already works, might as well add in the 3D camera and just be done with it.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:14 am
Holy S*spittake!*!!!
I gotta tell my supervoizer’s! Though, if it’s only a possibility, I’m afraid to get my hopes up.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Oh wow, I did not just shout in joy while watching this movie in my room.
…ok I did.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
this is great, but I really just want a 3 digit instance box.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Gene Fowler said…
this is great, but I really just want a 3 digit instance box.
Me too. Don’t hold your breath.
October 10th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
great… BUT can i use it for a PNG sequence export. I work in TV and we can’t use anything that only works in a SWF. Give me tools that render out to image sequences or else they’re useless to anything except web applications. TV flash animators are always left out. How many TV cartoons are made in flash now? almost ALL 2d shows. so where’s our support?
October 11th, 2007 at 1:48 am
To goldenrusset: What do you mean you need to render to PNG? Can you only render to SWF for your edit suite as is? Which video editing software do you use for your final edit for television? The reason being if you render thru a Mac you simply have to render to Quicktime (animation compression setting), and all your problems are solved, 1920 pixels wide of true HD no-quality-loss video format. Do you need to render out to PNG in order to more easily composite BGs in separately later with After Effects (because of PNG’s alpha channel) or something like that? Just curious. We’ve been using Flash for broaddcast animation for nearly 10 years, and we haven’t had problems with rendering for any high-def 2D television cartoon. Rendering as SWF’s limits your resolution to whatever your pre-set canvas size is which either gives the disadvantage to your animator’s workspace or to your editor importing/exporting the final output for broadcast. If the issue is to create mattes for compositing BGs in later, I can show you a fast an easy way in Flash to create perfect traveling mattes (without alpha channels) for someone in post to easily comp in bitmap BGs with AE. Just wondering why you need to export an image sequence for your final output? Let me know, maybe I can help.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
whit this, we “cutting” the distance from 3D animator to us
when they launch this?
November 5th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
http://aralbalkan.com/1072
Check it out
April 7th, 2008 at 7:36 am
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May 14th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
OCT 2007 FLASH = JAN 1992 ANIMO
http://www.kellener.com/steve/animovectors/animovectors.html
I hope they add it sometime soon.