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- Stevengine
Easy to learn? Hard to learn?
- SigDesign0
I don't think Flash animation is too difficult to learn. Actionscript 2.0 is pretty simple, but Actionscript 3 is harder...
- Fariska0
depends on what do you want to achieve.
Animation: pretty easy once you understand the concpets of symbols, layers and keyframes
Simple interactivity: pretty easy do stuff with stop and gotoAndPlay
Complex interactivity:depends how complex but you can do it with some simple scripting.
Application development: if you want to do well, better start studiyng Object Oriented Programming form the beginning.And nowadays or you go with banners and simple interactivity or you go straight to application development.
- HelloMatt0
So lets say we're doing crazyness like motion graphics. what is that generally built with?
<object width="425" height="344"><param name=""movie"" value=http://sneakystudent.com/browse.php?u=Oi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tLyZxdW90O2h0dHA6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vdi9SNFg3NlFHdlB2NCZhbXA7aGw9ZW4mYW1wO2ZzPTEmcXVvdDs%3D&b=29></param><param name=""allowFullScreen"" value="true"></param><param name=""allowscriptaccess"" value="always"></param><embed src=http://sneakystudent.com/browse.php?u=Oi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tLyZxdW90O2h0dHA6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vdi9SNFg3NlFHdlB2NCZhbXA7aGw9ZW4mYW1wO2ZzPTEmcXVvdDs%3D&b=29 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
- HelloMatt0
WTF with this just post the link not the code shit.
- - the angerHelloMatt
- i'd say it's build in aftereffects
it's makable in flash, but you'll need more patience, a lot more in factselektro - yeah this looks like aftereffects.moveinspace
- Fariska0
It looks done with After Effects more than Flash.
Flash CS4 implements the animation controls of AE, but i didn't see it yet. And recently i've seen a book about flash as an animation tool, which pushes pretty far the boundaries of what you can do with flash, but it requires strong animation knowledge.
So, for the motion graphic above, it surely is a mix of illustrator and after effects, and maybe flash.
- thanks a lot. I want to me a motiongrapher sometime when I can learn itHelloMatt
- Stevengine0
Thanks for all the help guys.. Im thinkin about Learning some flash
- You're welcome mate.
Flash is a pretty big universe to explore completely.Fariska - Would it be something i could teach myself ya think?Stevengine
- You're welcome mate.
- HelloMatt0
Are flash classes becoming more available in schools now when one takes design classes?
- Stevengine0
Are design classes being offered online alot now days? I would rather do my design classes on the interwebs.
- Fariska0
For learning: you can do by yourself:
1) Do the tutorials provided with the flash documentation. This will give you the basic knowledge.
2) The web is plenty of resources:
www.lynda.com
www.gotoandlearn.com
www.gotoandplay.it
www.kirupa.com (actually the most complete and helpful site about it)
just to cite some.
3) Learn OOP proprerly.The better way is by doing stuff: So do animations,small applications like image viewers, rss readers, slideshows etc etc.