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Hi Worsley,
Nice work, I like your black and white work, a lot of potential there!
Keep updating!

Thanks a lot guys, it really means a lot to get such positive feedback. I am pushing forward with my animation, firstly working out how to draw in flash! Here are some little characters I whipped out:

Thanks CloudEater :)

Also thanks too TieSeiT, J-qbandhavegum who replied in my earlier incorrect thread which was removed!

I draw with pen and ink, then do all my coloring in Photoshop. I layer up textures that I like to make things interesting, then paint under my scanned ink work until I'm happy. Hope that explains a few things :)

Here is another new piece!

Hi Newgrounds,
I have recently been reminded that it's now over a year since I made the resolution to learn to animate. Sadly work has gotten in the way and I haven't progressed nearly as much as I'd have liked. I have been creating new artwork though, so enough moaning from me, here is a new comic page completed recently.

Thanks for looking! (Sorry for initially posting this in a new thread, oops!)

Sorry if I am explaining badly, hopefully this picture can illustrate what I am trying to do:

My energy bar starts on frame 50, before that is a preloader on frames 1+2 and an intro, from 50 is the one you can see, with 51 and 52 being frames displaying the outcome of each choice seen on frame 50, hopefully this makes things a bit clearer!

Cheers

Hey guys,

Still no success, perhaps someone can help me out, I have this code on the 'energyBar' graphic:

onClipEvent(load){
var energy = 100;
var maxenergy = energy;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
energyBar._xscale = (energy / maxenergy) * 100;
}

I can't tell if its working or not, also when I want to make the health go up or down on certain frames I am trying to use:

onClipEvent(load){
energy -= 10;
}

on the health bar layer and graphic, am I doing this correctly?

Thanks again, I'm sure this is very simple for you guys but as a total novice I am finding it confusing! :)

Cheers

Hi Neo-13,

Thanks for your help, I do want a visual health bar, with no text. I have used Xscale to display the value of my health variable but I am having trouble adjusting the health as I go along, the bar doesn't seem to move so assuming I coded the bar correctly the value of my 'health' is being lost somewhere :/

Hi 4urentertainment,

Thanks for your reply! As far as I realise, I need to have the bar working a bit more dynamicly than that, because my game will comprise of a lot of unique frames on a different layer which will tell the 'story' as such - if that makes sense!

Cheers

Hi guys,

I am making a simple little game in flash and I would like a health bar to go in it, what I need is a bar which I can control as required frame by frame on a + or - basis - so one frame could contain 'you get hit by a brick, lose 10 health' or another could contain 'you drink a health potion, gain 20 health'. I also need some way of checking the health bar so that when it reaches 0 the player is directed to a certain frame.

I have checked out a bunch of tutorials online but they have all been based on a collision system to reduce health, but my game will be text based. Being a total novice, I haven't been able to translate these tutorials into what I need.

I am okay with the visual side of things (making the bar and splitting the stroke into a separate layer etc.) but if anyone could help me with the code I would be very grateful!

Best,
Ben

Hi guys,
I was reading this article just now and Newgrounds came to mind as a place some people might find it interesting. Here the story...
Markets in the poorer places of the world, for example Shanghai, and stocked full of old 8-Bit computer chips that the western world no longer needs or wants, so we dumped them somewhere else.
Now the good news is that companies in China, India and many others are making good use of these chips, putting together simple computer systems which are sold for around $10 to children who have no chance of getting their hands on the latest gaming laptop any time soon.
The problem is that software for these old systems, in particular educational games, is severely lacking. This is where you come in!
There is a company called Playpower (involving a multinational team, including members from the US, Brazil and India) who are working to get more software out there for these kids, to help with their educations, and give them a bit of fun too!

If you are a passionate retro gamer who can program 8-Bit games then why not do a bit of something special with your skills to help the world? Check out http://playpower.org/ for all the official information - I am nothing to do with them, so take nothing I have said in this post as gospel, I merely thought it might be a good idea to fish the NG community for any interested parties, as I know there are plenty of retro fans around who may find this a fun idea!

Thanks for reading!

Thanks guys, glad you like em!

Here are some character drawings:

At 1/6/09 07:05 AM, e-m-b-r-i-o wrote: what can I say.. your style is so wicked! do tell us what medium you work in... I want to say traditional.. but I bet it's digital.

Thanks e-m-b-r-i-o!
Actually I do work mostly traditionally, all the drawing is pen and ink, but all the colouring is done in Photoshop. I couldn't make my work look the way it does without Photoshop - but I love drawing with pen & ink too much to completely move over to digital, so I sit on the fence with a fishing pole!

Cheers,
Ben

Thanks everyone!

Its great to get so much positive feedback! I will check out all your suggestions!

Here is another picture!

~ Ben

Hi guys!
Thanks for all the great feedback and advice, I'm glad you like the comic!

I have tried out a bunch of ideas on my version of Flash (2004) - redrawing my images in Flash with less lines to make it easier to cope with and I also just out together a little test .fla with a comic background dropped right in and a flash drawn character infront, which is looking really promising! (thanks for the suggestion KartoonHustla)!

I'd like to show you all but unless I am missing something I can;t post flash up on the forums. I will sort it out on my own hosting when I have a few more examples to show!

Thanks again for all taking the time to reply!

~ Ben

Nuttro: I have actually concepted our a game based on Turtle Guitar for a bit of fun, who knows if learning Flash goes well maybe in a couple of years it will become a reality!

Thanks for all the comments and advice guys, the response has been really helpful!

Here is another drawing!

Hello Newgrounds!
My name is Ben, I'm an Illustrator and I live in England.
I have been surfing Newgrounds for years, but now I am joining in the party! My new years resolution is to try to learn to animate, something I have wanted to do with my work for too long now!

I started a thread over in the Art forum with a sample of my work and it was suggested I should post here too, for more specific advice on animating my work.

I will post some of my work in this thread, there is more in my Art forum thread here! - any total beginners advice on animating in a similar style would be appreciated!

~ Ben

Thanks guys!

I will start a thread over in the Flash forum for animating advice - but will keep this one going as well, so I can share my artwork with you guys!

~ Ben

Hello Newgrounds!
My name is Ben, I'm an Illustrator and I live in England.
I have been surfing Newgrounds for years, but now I am joining in the party! My new years resolution is to try to learn to animate, something I have wanted to do with my work for too long now!

I will post some of my work in this thread - any total beginners advice on animating in a similar style would be appreciated!

First up, a page from my comic Turtle Guitar!

Does anyone know where I can get a crack to hack the trial version of flash 4?

Much help needed and appreciated!

Sadley computing books are always so expensive (for my wallet anyway)
I recentley brought a HTML book that cost me a pretty penny!

Indeed!

Id like to get into flash but its not the kind of thing that I can learn easily!
To start I have to find somwhere to download flash free.
then ill probley have to crack it.
Then learn how to use it!
its a hard life!