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- [Instructor] In previous movies, I've dealt with thumbnails, a basic introduction, and the more intermediate one, how you would plan walks and mechanical actions with them. But now, let's focus on thumbnails for acting and dialogue scenes. These thumbnails are for a scene to be animated in Flash, believe it or not. But I really wanted to push Flash as far as I could, to break it out of the boring symbol puppet business. So, thumbnails are the way to do that. Here's how the scene turned out, finally. Pretty snappy, some nice action in there, so let's see how I approached the thumbnails. First, I drew the start pose on the left, then the stop pose on the right. I knew there's going to be about six or seven poses between them, and at this point, I didn't worry about the timing, just the poses. So, once the start and the stop poses were in place, I drew the anticipation and the overshoot. So, anticipation here, overshoot there. Now, I could have kept this anticipation pose as the…

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