awesome
I never found the easter egss but that CAMERA BOX THING FRICKIN RULES!!!!
That alone earns you a 10!
Reviews for "The Big Fat Tutorial"
Helbereth responds:
Thanks. The easter eggs were made intentionally easy to find (at least in my opinion).
The first one is on the main menu - an invisible button sitting over one of the vid screens - it opens the sound test.
The second is in the masking section. On every page of the section there's a small button located in the middle right of the screen - it opens the 'fun with masking' page.
After the credit roll there's a screen that pops up listing various sources. Sitting over one of the lines there is a big invisible button that opens the object viewer. (On that same screen, the last line says straight out that there's an easter egg onscreen).
Throughout the tutorial there are occasional tiny white spots located near objects. These are not just dots, they're text. Zoom in and many of them give hints about where to find the easter eggs.
very well done and a big help for noobs.
the main thing that has me hooked to your submission is the Zelda song with the drumbeat added to it. that's got little to nothing to do with the actual FLASH, but I just wanted to say, firstly (before I go into the flash itself) that the song is very lovely. who did it, what is the title of it, and where can I find it?
okay.. that's done, so now onto the actual flash content.
tutorials may not be "actual movies/games" like some people say, but they are a necessity, especially here on Newgrounds where people spit out crap instead of taking the time to learn how to use Flash properly and give us something worth watching.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of this from you--this is very well done and is going to be a big help to me once I actually start being brave enough to start making flashes of my own, so I thank you madly from the bottom of my little heart for making it.
Helbereth responds:
The music is all credited in the credits sequence (which can be paused). There's also a direct link in one of the easter eggs (look in the masking section). The music clip in question is from a remix done by Trinity over on ocremix.org called "The Goddess Appears".
Can i kiss you?
This is fantastic!!
Helbereth responds:
No, but thanks.
Thanks for the review!
Incredible work dude...
This work is fantastic... i've learnt alot too after watchin this work...
Everything is done well & creatively here. Hope to see another of yr tutorial soon... nice work.
Helbereth responds:
I think my next one will probably end up delayed until next summer (I have too much to do to even consider a january schedule. By then I'll have a crapload more stuff to add.
This tutorial is the bomb!
And I can't wait for another one from you. This was really well made, and very in depth on the subjects you included. Since this one concentrated on an outside scenerio, may I suggest maybe having some instruction on interior type scenes for the next one? (like... lighting effects, perspective and dynamic camera angles, using color for mood effectively...) I'm just rambling on now, but I'm really looking forward to what you put out next :D thank you for taking the time to help out some newbies who might have a lot of potential, who maybe need just a few more skillz. ;)
Helbereth responds:
I basically designed it for the special kind of newbies who merely lack the technical savvy to translate their wealth of imaginings into viable flash.
That sounds all technical, I know, but after responding to 200 reviews I have this down to a science). My next tutorial will be creating entire settings and sequences of animation. I'll probably do something on editing (movie-like editing). My brother wants to do a section on scripting (not actionscript, mind you).
It should be pretty extensive.
Thanks for the review!