ehh
Flash
Well that was certainly a tedious three hours.
By far the most frustrating part of exercise 5 was when I went to go and program the buttons, only to discover that I had created the entire movie in the wrong format (3.0). The instructions in the book only worker for 1.0 and 2.0,, so I had to go back and re-create everything.
Like HTML, flash isn't difficult so much as it is time consuming. I completed all the exercises and tuesday's assignment in a time frame that seemed to last forever. I was kicking myself for the whole wrong format deal.
I used to wonder why the "Potter Puppet Pals" only came out with a cartoon a year. Now I know why they switched to real puppets. One simple minute long cartoon (tuesday's assignment) took hours to make. And I didn't even have the characters move. All they do is talk.
I'm definately not doing a flash cartoon for my final project like I originally proposed. I don't have the time or the patience. Give me an entire week where all I had to do was work on the cartoon, sure. But I have other classes.
I see the potential for Flash to be beneficial in our field. For once, I'm not working through a program thinking "this is pointless."
Well that was certainly a tedious three hours.
By far the most frustrating part of exercise 5 was when I went to go and program the buttons, only to discover that I had created the entire movie in the wrong format (3.0). The instructions in the book only worker for 1.0 and 2.0,, so I had to go back and re-create everything.
Like HTML, flash isn't difficult so much as it is time consuming. I completed all the exercises and tuesday's assignment in a time frame that seemed to last forever. I was kicking myself for the whole wrong format deal.
I used to wonder why the "Potter Puppet Pals" only came out with a cartoon a year. Now I know why they switched to real puppets. One simple minute long cartoon (tuesday's assignment) took hours to make. And I didn't even have the characters move. All they do is talk.
I'm definately not doing a flash cartoon for my final project like I originally proposed. I don't have the time or the patience. Give me an entire week where all I had to do was work on the cartoon, sure. But I have other classes.
I see the potential for Flash to be beneficial in our field. For once, I'm not working through a program thinking "this is pointless."
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