Great tutorial!
that was an awesome tutorial. everything was very clear and you went out of your way to make it easy to understand. the animation was great and so was the music. i have one minor gripe though. the buttons and the text at the bottom of the screen was a bit too small. apart from that, it was great. i hope to see more flash from you and neophyte_ronin. perhaps you'll submit some with newbie animations. :P
I've read my fair share of tutorials and a lot of them leave me scratching my head. I wanted everything to be fleshed out and explained thoroughly, and, based on the reviews, I've at least accomplished that.
I had always planned to have more buttons down across the bottom, so I had them really small. I also didn't want them to be in the way when you're reading the tutorials. If you want to see them closer (and unobstructed)there's an easter egg in the credits (look in the last line) that opens an object viewer (that details virtually every object used).
omg, thank you!
FINALLY, a way to teach my friends without actually teaching them LOL. I hate being bugged by my friends to help em wit flash works.. you just saved me hours of sleep =)
Hey, any way I can. I was probably the guy asking those retarded questions about this time last year, so I know how that is...
Excellent!
A great tutorial for those who have used Flash before and total beginners. Outstanding!
Well my target audience was everybody, so knowing that I made something for everybody I'm happy.
great...
it's really good and very useful, good graphics, well explained... ad funny! 10/10
( Although I couldn't wrap my head around the camera tutorial... i'm quite new at flash and it'd probably have to be broken down so a baby could understand it, before I could LOL )
Thanks, I did try to be funny as much as possible.
I'm probably going to make another tutorial that will delve into the areas I didn't go over in this, and will get into more detail with the camera.
Thanks for the review!
Versatility beyond description
This tutorial is THE most versatile document on newgrounds . Of course this tutorial will not appeal much to beginners in terms of helping right away , but the intermediate skill worker , who has a general understand of flash and it's many uses , will certainly enjoy this . I am a beginner , and well i have not submitted anything yet , or created anything . I've done some experimenting , and done some hands on work while micmicing the examples given in tutorials , making sure i reproduced them as good as i possibly could before i could go on to the next lesson . I am on a crusade to learn . It has been one of these intuitious dreams of mine to learn how to use flash . I already have a good intermediate skill in Fire works . In fact i am pretty skilled . I know it isn't as good as photoshop , but i get everything i need from Fireworks . I am not a skilled sketcher , so the use of photoshop is not necessary for now ; not to mention it is expensive. As i was saying , i am trying to learn as much as i can . From how to actually make backgrounds and put them into the flashs ( yes i still don't know o_O) to making outstanding flash movies like yourself. I still don't quite understand the camera part . I thought it was meant as a metaphorical tool . Like saying : "The camera is in the mind of the producer". Well i guess it has more , but i am a victim of SLS , so i am sured past that . The last part i would like to comment , is how you entertained us through the flash . I like to think thats important when your presenting something . Like a public speech , or a flash presentation , Etc. You have to inform the guest , and be precise aswell as generally speaking ( Like being open minded , which you did quite a few times . In order for people to know that if they did something for the sake of doing that it was alright , but if not they should follow the rule you presented and Etc.) , but more importantly : you have to entertain too . Everyone wants to be informed , but it makes it easy if you're really into the information being given out . You're curious to see what happens , you can relate to some of the things , and you can let out a chuckle once in a while .
All in all , those were the elements that , i found , easily made your tutorial the most versatile tutorial on all of newgrounds.
Congratulations and may god bless you ;D.
I hope you decide to make a well explained tutorial on everything for beginners . Like how backgrounds work , and do you have to put them in every frame using the frame by frame technique ? Wink wink ;) . I am kidding , but it would be nice to have one that is more straight to it than the others . Just a suggestion though :D
Good job once more
Cheers to Thee !
B
For that title "Versatility beyond description", you certainly tried to describe it.
I'm glad to have helped you learn and made you laugh. Those were my goals with this tutorial, and I'm happy to have achieved them.
The incredibly simple stuff like that, I suppose, could use an overview at least. Most users have that stuff figured out pretty quick, though. I could include a 'total newbies' tutorial in my next incarnation - could make for a few good laughs (I remember being completely stupid when i first opened flash).
BTW as long as your background starts on one keyframe and has enough frames to go with your animation, you're all set.
Thanks for the very long review!