But because I'm given the proper tools from image editing programs such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, I have the ability to create professional looking illustrations.
In order to make your flash animation look appealing, you don't have to own a drawing tablet for your computer and be a talented drawer. You don't even need to put a lot of effort into tweaking and refining every detail of your picture in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. The animations "These are the Boring Bits" and "Talk to me" show us that complex and detailed animations aren't necessary in order to make an animation seem appealing.
Adobe Flash makes simple animation very easy with motion tweens. When animating a moving object, rather than requiring you to go through each frame of animation and then move the object to the next position, Adobe can do that for you with motion tweens. All you have to do is put the object in its starting position in the first frame, and then to its ending position in the last frame. It makes simple animation possible for anyone who isn't good at drawing.
It doesn't matter so much how simple or complex the animation is, as long as it tells a comprehensible story that is told primarily through the animation. The animation simply has to make sense in relation to the sound in the animation and the dialogue. (If there is any.)
In the animation "The Boring Bits," the characters in the story were only drawings of people's faces and their hair. The animators displayed the bare minimum of their characters on screen. Nothing extra was added to the characters unless it was necessary for the plot to advance, such as one scene where someone was talking on the phone. The only things drawn were the face, the hair and the phone next to the man's face. The background as well was very bland and minimalistic, the only objects on screen were objects that were relevant to the plot.
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