00:00
00:00
Newgrounds Background Image Theme

InfraMute just joined the crew!

We need you on the team, too.

Support Newgrounds and get tons of perks for just $2.99!

Create a Free Account and then..

Become a Supporter!

Horse poop

Share Collapse

Author Comments

This is my first flash animation. Really just trying to find my way around the program. There is no audio, I haven't figured that out yet. Let me know of anything that looks bad or could look better, I'm sure there's a bunch of things that can be fixed.

Log in / sign up to vote & review!

Not bad for a first flash, i suppose

There's plenty to be improved here. Most of it deals with the slightly more complicated aspects of making a flash animation... first one is preloaders - this is pretty much standard fare for flashes - you want the content to load before hand to avoid any errors in the flash due to improper loading... most commonly - sound and music will be off.

But you have no sound or music. and that's the second bit. Learn how to put that in and control it.

Next, you'll want to learn basic actionscript controls like gotoandplay(); and gotoandstop(); .... these will allow you to firstly stop the animation at the end (at which point it is customary to put a replay button and / or credits... also it lets you jump between scenes. This is helpful with wholly different places the flash takes place in or camera angles things like that which you want represented in it.

Your animation is pretty good, really, but try not to rely too heavily on tweening. look into making your symbols movie clips and then making that symbol's animation do the morphing work while having the tweens provide the symbol's overall motion. I think the key to making a really great flash is to master the balance between tweening and frame by frame animation. (visually, at least)

hope this helps out. Looks like your flash will probably pass, but if i were you i'd put all these suggestions into it, add some more to the story itself, and then resubmit it. (upon which time, just delete this one - it's not doing anybody any favors by being here -no offense-)

Good luck!

D

jathom30 responds:

Thanks for the info. Do you know of any tutorials online that would be worth checking out? Your bit about gotoandplay() went right over my head.

Alright

For your first animation, this is pretty good. The animation was good. And the art was also pretty good for a first animation.

We have an Audio Portal where you can download music and put in your flash, so feel free to use that.

jathom30 responds:

Thanks, audio is for sure something I want to work on, I'll check the portal out.

Credits & Info

Views
3,453
Votes
3
Score
3.43 / 5.00

Uploaded
Oct 25, 2011
10:49 PM EDT
Tags