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1. I decided to try out Flash CS5 on my computer and do an animation. So I drew a circle to act as the head and a line as the arm. I used pen sized 7 which was not too thick or too thin.

2. You need to select at least two part of your arm that you need to move. The selection divides the movements into two. After each selection, you need to convert it into a symbol. This makes a layer of the selection

3. Now you need to add the bone tool that will enable the movement. With the bone tool, select the top of the arm and go down to the first selection and release the click. Then start from the same point and move downwards where the second selection ends. You can make enhancements of each bone by changing the maximum and minimum angle the bone can rotate. Also setting the joint as a constrain prevents it from rotation in the opposite direction with the same maximum and minimum angle.

4. After making the bone tool possible to the arm, it will make a new layer seen as armature. At this point the other layers you had made from the symbols are useless. Make an end keyframe to work with. This does not have to be the final end point, you can change it with time and according to how long you want your animation to be.

5. Now you need to make another arm, to make a normal stickman. So whatever you did to create the first arm and insert the bone tool, do it again to make the second arm. Make sure you use the same thickness of the pen.

6. Now you need to work on your timeline. Set a standard end frame as 50. So now start creating poses for the arm. Select any frame in the timeline and add a pose to the arm. Remember to do this in small actions because you don't want the arm to move like 60 degrees in a span of 5 frames. So continue adding poses till you are satisfyed with the animation.

7. For the head, I wanted to do something creative to enhance my video. To do a color transition, select a point in the timeline of the layer you want and insert a keyframe. Go to the swatches and select a desired color. Then move ahead about 

8. Since you want the flash to run on for quite some time, you need to make the time frame longer and this means keeping on changing positions and poses

9. Lastly, for the music, go to file> import> import to library and select your desire song. Then go back to the timeline and select the frame where you want the music to come in.

Crazy Stickman

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