Been messing with Flash

Macromedia Flash is fun. By fun I mean time-consuming and frustrating. But, no really, it is fun to mess around with. It just takes a long time to really make anything with it. It reminds me a lot of stop-motion animation, which I messed with during a brief spell almost ten years ago. If you want to make anything more than a couple minutes of action, you’re in for a lot of work. I worked on this little movie for an ex-coworker’s birthday for about 10-12 hours. Seriously. I don’t think I’m all that slow. I had about twenty something layers and the resulting .fla (Flash editable source) file was about 150 MB. You’re welcome to view the final result, which I think is funny, however be forewarned that it is full of inside jokes you could never be expected to understand.

I learned many Flash principles during this attempt. How to build a simple preloader, looping animation, and even some simple ActionScript.

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Mike G. 07/26/2005 06:59 AM 1 point
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lol, that's good stuff man.. Was that Lindsay in that final pic? Man, I need to touch base with her.. It's been about 10 months since I talked to her..
Flash is good times.. Have ya ever played with swish much? I really like it myself..

-Mike

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chris sivori 07/26/2005 02:59 PM 1 point
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Yea, that be Lindsay. I've messed with Swish some, but not since I got a copy of Flash.

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