Mariah Carey 8-bit animation

I know it's way past the holidays, but I thought I'd finish this anyway. Plus, Tricia keeps texting me about it. Watch out, there is music. I hope you like it.

In case you are interested in my process here are a few screen shots.

The Mariah (and Micheal Jackson) poses were animated in very tiny photoshop documents, then saved as bitmaps and imported to Flash, converted and resized. I learned this from Chris Pace when animating his digibird. It takes more time than drawing in Flash but the pixels remain true like actual sprites. I've tried Fireworks a little bit, but I'm more comfortable with PS.

Here is the background in Photoshop.

Here is a pic of Mariah's symbol in Flash. She has 18 main poses. To add eye and mouth movements I repeated her body frames and added the other things on top. That way had about 100 fames to choose from. I'm a little better at multiplying by 18 now.

These are the frames for the snow/confetti animation. Each flake has an 86 frame loop.