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Here's something I did in two days with photoshop animation. First day to make the art and test the animation, the second day to get it complete. It's actually my first time in a long time animating and the first time I worked with photoshop as a tool for animation. It definitely has it's advantages over flash, mostly in the visual department, but I don't think I would use it for long animations just short ones like this.

Probably going to give it a second go and build on it, perhaps make the plant grow from the red orb or something. What do you guys think?

At 3/20/10 06:10 PM, snorte wrote:

At 3/20/10 04:51 PM, KodoPuppy wrote:
I'm in. :D A few questions though; so do you have any story line or is that still open for discussion? And what setting are we looking at here? From the character design you provide, and this is just a guess based on what he's wearing, I'm saying possibly a winter setting?

I like your character design though, simple and kinda cute.

About the story line, I've been trying out some ideas in my head, but I haven't been able to get something right so far. Yeah, I suppose a winter setting is what I thought about at first, but I haven't thought about it very much so far. I haven't been able to think very much of anything since the idea hit me, because I haven't been home since^^

So right now, I don't have very much information to give. Everything concerning the plot should be an collaborative effort to get the best result :)

It would be appreciated if you could show me some kind of artwork you've done, if you can't do a remake of what I did within a couple of hours. It would be fun to see something before I go to bed^^

Already did a redo of your character design. :D Not much changes, mainly the coloring. Like I said I liked it since it was simple and cute-ish. I'll add details to the design at a later time, like a etching in the blade arms so it looks like its going from flesh to metal and maybe a design where he had normal arms, and possibly come up with some bad guy/monster designs too. And for plot, I've been thinking about how the characters arms turned to blades and possibly how this may result in a sort of save the world game.

At 3/20/10 11:34 AM, snorte wrote: Hello. I just came up with an idea of a game, which includes cartoon-like characters and a side-scrolling platform. I want the game to be a hack and slash type of game, with old and already tried elements combined with some fresh ideas of game play. What I'm looking for is a good enough artist/animator, with a clever mind. I also want you to know that I will listen to everything you say, and all of your ideas will be considered. As an artist you will be free to do whatever you want, if you think it will improve the game in any way.

I'll do all the coding aswell as the core design of the game. That does not mean the design can not be modified by your ideas as the development progresses.

I'm working with AS3 in Flash CS4.

I'm not sure that I covered everything I wanted to. Just ask if there's something you would like to know.

I'll include a picture of the main character of the game. I'm a shit artist, so you can change the design however you want, to improve the look. I just want it to have these saw-blade like arms.

I just came up with something. What I want you to do, if interested, is to remake the character in a way you think it should look like. That way, I can decide whom I want to work with.

- Alexander

I'm in. :D A few questions though; so do you have any story line or is that still open for discussion? And what setting are we looking at here? From the character design you provide, and this is just a guess based on what he's wearing, I'm saying possibly a winter setting?

I like your character design though, simple and kinda cute.

At 3/20/10 04:38 PM, KodoPuppy wrote: Nope that didn't work. It now just goes straight to the animation and doesn't stop.

Wait correction, it does stop but the button doesn't play the animation still. I had to re-enter the instances name.

Nope that didn't work. It now just goes straight to the animation and doesn't stop.

Okay, I'm honestly stuck on what to do. I looked it up and fallowed the instructions and yet the animation still won't play. I created my button, filled in the up, over,down, and hit frames for the button. Made the instance match that in the script. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Here's the script that I'm using, I just want to get to the second frame to start the animation.

stop();
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
My_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK , CursorClick);
My_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE _OUT, CursorOff);
function CursorClick(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop("2");
}
function CursorOff(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop(1);
}

Oh and I'm using ActionScript 3.0 and I have Flash CS4.

Alright I've done the whole up, over, down, hit thing with the button but when I go to test it, it doesn't do anything when I click it, meaning I don't have to click it to play the movie, it just goes straight to the animation. Can anybody help me out here? Maybe I'm not doing the right thing with the action script or something. I'm just trying to get it to play from the second scene, first frame, thats all.