Reviews for The Big Fat Tutorial

[Kayol]

I learned something new today!

I found it amazing how beautiful a background could be with a few vectored images tweened together. Graphic appeal and a fraction of the file size.

Graphics: 8

Although the camera panning was about the only thing new to me, I ACTUALLY understood it, ever thought of being a teacher? I thought I'd get bored but I was intertained throughout.

Style: 8

Sound was great although annoying after awhile but you saved yourself by having a nice selection to cycle.

Sound: 7

Except for the plane crash I don't think there was any violence

Violence: 4

Thanks for the actionscript

Interactivity: 10

Love those fairies!

Humor: 6

Helbereth responds:

Yeah the whole fraction of the file size thing ought to be helpful. I', surprised more people don't do so for their movies seeing as how it's so versatile, and yet so simple.

Yes for about a month I entertained the idea of being a teacher. It's something I might pursue later in life, but I'll have to get over my innate distaste for adolescent attitudes before that happens.

Yeah I wanted the music kept to a video game remix theme, so I figured having a fair number of them would save me from getting too many bad sound reviews. Besides, I had already made a number of the loops a while back (the Shadowrun and great faerie themes are the only loops I constructed specifically for this tutorial).

The plane crash was just fun to make. It's a sight gag meant to draw a laugh in the middle of boring exposition. If you look close at the burning wreck, the scene is a bit more gory than you might believe when you first look (it's possible to pause it during the credits to zoom in).

I barely grasp the basic concepts of action script. It'll be slow going for me in that department mostly because I have this tendency toward disorder - a bad trait to have when doing any programming.

Yeah the Faerie Mafia were another sight gag that I added to keep people's attention span in check. Originally I was going to have camera shakes, but after trying it a few times with no real success I just made the text bounce around. BTW the fact that I used red green and blue for the faerie colors is not just because they're the primary colors of light. I may be putting Link to work at some point...

Anyway, thanks for the itemized review!

[DemonBanisher54]

How dare you play the Song of Storms!

Nice

Helbereth responds:

I regret that now considering the rain we've had up here all week...

Damnable New England weather...

Thanks for the review!

[scaarub]

Possibly the greatest tut on newgrounds

This is an EXTREMELY straightforward tutorial, using basic techniques to create advanced appearing settings. It is an incredible blend of learning and fun, and the cartoon element adds enjoyability and the feeling that flash isnt a complicated program, but simply what you can make of it.
This is a very good tutorial, i recommend anyone who hasn't already done so by now to take a quick look. It really does explain how to make amazing backgrounds and miscellanious things. My congratulations to the author, the first flash ive seen him produce here, but i could have missed a few, and it is incredible. We need more tutorials like this for the newbies!
Again, Amazing! I am very very impressed

Helbereth responds:

This is the first one I put a lot of work into, really. There were 3 others but I was mostly testing to see if people got my sense of humor - and my sense of scares. My batting average is probably permanently scarred by the first two. The third I'm proud of.

In any case, I intentionally spent time to make it as straightforward as possible. No one word explanations, and no lack of reasons why something works. I even slipped in suggestions here and there on how to make use of the different processes.

Virtually all the peripheral stuff was added to help people with short attention spans. One with ADD will tend to turn it off if they get bored. I slipped in as many things as I could think of (or, well, as many as I thought I needed) for them to click on when they get bored somewhere. Or something that jumps out and catches their attention to keep them involved.

Most of it came out as a stream of thought or was born out of the wording I used (the airplane came out of the 'layer planes' description).

The credits were just fun to make.

Anyway, I hope it gets used. 25k views means a lot of people have seen it (and probably reopened it to view something again), but I hope a lot more see it and find ways to make use of it.

Thanks for the review!

[Lionheart]

Wow. Great tutorial.

Maybe you could make it downloadable. Like Ultimate Tutorial 2. Can't wait for bigger fatter tutorial. The Scripted Camera can be downloaded from Ultimate tutorial.

[stanleymcstan]

yeah!

thank you man, thank you!