How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS4

Ape Escape

APE ESCAPE IS BEST known as a platform game for Sony’s Playstation gaming console. But it is also an animated series for television. Recently I was asked to help animate a few scenes and thought it would make for a great example of how a professional production creates animation with Flash as its primary tool for television broadcast. Many of the animators worked virtually, including myself. We shared files via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and we were initially given storyboards in Quicktime format to work from. The main characters were already set up for us in Flash and each episode was broken down into several small chunks of time – specifically from 5 to 10 seconds in length. This created more files but they were very small in size ...