^_^

Its short and sweet - But really well animated and I love the dragon. Its so CUTE! ^_^

Not bad...

The problem is this is simply a test peice, its a well drawn animation, but Don't post it here untill you turn it into something.

I know your a first timer

For a first timer its not bad just add some more work like a story and a preloader and your all set

Nothing.

There's nothin worthwhile here.
The animation isn't bad, but there's no story or anything.

Unimpressive

Well, I don't mean to me rude, but this is an unimpressive piece. It's a short loop, and while it's not a particularly badly done one, it's still just a short loop.

That being said, if you want to mess around with wind effects, you should try messing with the alpha values. Depending on what version of flash you're using, there are different ways to do this, but if you turn the wind into a symbol, you should then be able to turn down the alpha value. This will make things transparent, and will help with your wind effects.

As far as the frame by frame goes, this works. It's not particularly amazing, but it works. You might want to put an extra frame of the dragon when it's wings are fully up in order to put a bit more emphasis on the movement. Also, you might want to turn up your frame rate a bit to make things more fluid. Adding in a few more in betweens would help even things out if you did that. Lastly, when its wings return up, you might want to have a frame of them folded going upwards. I personally think it would look a bit more natural than just having the wings go from the down to the up position.

All in all, you show ability to animate, but you're not really doing anything with it. I look forward to seeing you produce something a bit more ambitious. The skills are there, but you need to actually use them.