Pixel Art?
Is there any way of doing pixel art in flash?
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Posted on: 02-28-2005, 01:43 PM
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Hi guys, sorry if this has been answered before I did my best to search for it but I didnt know what to search for.
I have a very small tree image (85x85 px) and I broke it up into parts. I plan to animate the tree with a breeze going through it. I had all my images aligned, got the motion tweens in, but when I play it it is VERY rough.. ie: over 30 frames for one movement it only visually moves twice, *very blocky movement*.
Im using 24bit pngs with transparency. If I could just get it to sway smoothly...
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I wonna see some pixel font posts please,
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