Well, since I've been really short on cash lately and getting a lot of requests for lessons over the years I thought I'd come up with a way for people to learn under my instruction through various contact programs and in various different aspects of animation.
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What I would cover:
I would cover many aspects of the flash program itself ( depending on the skill level of the student. )

•Some focuses of these lessons would include:

- Anticipation
- Force
- Impact
- Follow through
- Weight
- Gravity
- Flow
- Easing
- Transitions ( changing attacks )
- Positioning
- Zooming for which brush sizes
- Effects ( blood, explosions, lightning, water, splatters... things of that nature. )
- Inputting sounds ( and where to locate them )
- Working with many characters interacting all at once
- Various different ways to go about animating your stick figure( in parts, in whole, segments etc etc.. )
- Correct use of blurs ( partial explanation in impact )
- Camera use, different ways to add more impact to your hits and ability to give your movie's cinematics.
- Menu working
- Backgrounds ( different background techniques and effects )
- Creative credits
- Movements ( punches, kicks, flips... and efficient ways to go about doing them right every time! )
- Choreographing simple fights, combat
- Using weapons, guns, staff's, swords etc..
- Using larger scale characters
- Impact effects ( gradient glows, black flashes )
- Scene transitions ( creative ways to go from one background setting to another )
- Simple action script
- Organizing collab files
- Fading in and out
- Dealing with text
- Stretching characters
- When to skew characters
- How to stay focused
- How to stay inspired

Many many MANY tips on loads of things you'd never find on the internet.
- Such strange, but helpful things as ( if you have a tablet ) tie a string to your tablet pen and to your monitor, you'll never loose it that way.

- Or if you like to draw on paper simply tap paper on your tablet to give it that nice texture of pencil on paper as you animate!

On top of these topics here you may ask me any questions you like on any other subject of animation or practices, warmups , tips, tricks you can think of. Most topics I do have a tip or trick to make things easier, more efficient and even fun!

Those are just some of the subjects that we can cover and go over in depth with examples, free .fla's to keep with full length talks and viewing it done as its explained to you.


What this means is that I will personally talk to you individually while you watch me animate or draw the example right in front of your eyes with the use of Skype and Teamviewer ( free programs )

•How to Apply:
Contact me Travis Steven ( stone )
Ask for a certain time that is in compliance with my availability schedule ( below )
Download Skype + Teamviewer
Pay the $ amount to my paypal, once these are complete we me begin as scheduled!

•Skype will enable me to talk to you over the internet on a microphone
•Radmin ( another voice program that allows me to communicate with you )
•Teamviewer is a simple way for you to view my desktop and see what I am doing at all times.


•Programs to downloads ( quick and easy, small and useful programs )
•Skype
http://skype.com/download/skype/windows/

•Radmin
http://radmin.com

•Teamviewer
http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx


Contact me Travis Steven ( stone )

- msn = travisgsteven@hotmail.com
- skype = stone.steven1
- xchat = #fluidanims.com
- email = stonesbucket.com@gmail.com
- PM = through forum



•Cost
$25 /hr.
• Payments shall be made up front before your lesson through paypal transaction ( safe and secure ) to stone90@mail.com


If you don't see something up there that you would like to know or that I'm missing something feel free to let me know!


- ALL of the proceeds will be put back into fluidanims.com in form of competitions and cash prizes for the community! My main cause is to help those out and provide a great service to FA's users to build their confidence and abilities!

Satisfaction garunteed! By the end of the lesson you will be a better animator. :]

I'd try it, don't know about registering.

Registering...? Please explain. Do you mean like applying for a scheduled time?

This could be a great businnes to earn some money. if i have some loose cash i might pay someday

Can I try that 2 hours trial?
If you need my contact information PM me.

Look's good
I could use somthing like this!
I will take the trial!

Well, I just spent an hour with Wraz and we went over in depth on..


- easing
- particle explosions
- Gravity
- Running
- Punch/impact
- fall/hit/recoil

and ill be sending him the .fla.

Alright i just got an hour of trail lesson.

And i really lerned some good animation tqniques and stuff its fun to see how many animators animate so differently.
Anyways i think Stone did a great job really explaining think really good. i really understod it even though im from denmark.
so hopefully if i want and have time ill post some tests of what stone learned me:)

Thankyou stone

aww man, i need to make some money, im tottaly broke :3

btw, i hope this dosent cut too much into your schedule, its probly like a job, (or a second one at least )

edit: OMG lol i just saw wraz's avatar when he said thank you stone, it looks like hes bowing in fast motion almost

This looks like a cool thing. It's very unique, I think you'll get very far stone. Good job.

Have fun being as good as disney right away ampyre. gl.