Reviews for The Big Fat Tutorial

[Cheesin]

wow

Great tutorial. I never thought those effects were possible in flash; every time i try to use the gradiant it looks like crap.

I loved how it wasn't just a plain tutorial with just text for people to read and follow, you added in your own touches for some humor and as a way to add life to each lesson.

Everything was nice and clean looking, and all the tutorials went into some great depth to explain the steps of each technique.

The only (VERY minor) problem i had with it was the music loops. They were pretty short, and so varied that there were only one or two that i actually didn't mind listening to. So they got repetitive. Of course i didn't have to listen to them, but i did say this was a very minor complaint.

Overall a top notch tutorial. I hope you come out with another one.

Helbereth responds:

Gradients are sometimes a HUGE pain in the arse. It takes a lot of tweaking to get them to look right. I used to have a gradient ring pulsing on the main menu, but I cut it out just before I released it... I didn't think the menu needed anything else to cause hardware slowdown. I used the same ring in the credits tho... just tinted (you can see it on the sound test too).

I didn't think the music loops were bad... I used to have them playing sometimes... the Zelda one helped me stay focused when I was proofreading it...

[JasonZ]

LOVE it

great work!
this tutorial really helped me alot!
thanks for the stuff make more.
p.s its mainly because i cant do action script very well.

Helbereth responds:

Thanks and you're welcome. I'm not great with AS either. I can barely make buttons.

[Hamplant]

Perfect flash...

This is one of the best tutorials ever man. But.....when you do the actionscript I had a problem. Dont you need to but like a feature in first like to play a movie you go to Actions>Movie Crap>Play>then the actionscript?

Helbereth responds:

Perhaps in an older version of flash... I have no idea about that. I've never had to include any animation for movie clips to play. I must have used over 300 movie clips in this tutorial alone... some had stop functions at the end... but none of them required play functions.

Thanks for the review.

[Flea-Productions3]

It's very rare I give someone a 10.

But you deserve it! This is by far THE GREATEST tutorial on Newgrounds. Your graphics are simply incredible. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it. Oh, and thanks A LOT for the masking tutorial. Masking confusedf the hell out of me. Also, thanks A TON for putting that scripted camera in. It's simply god-like. Seriously. Please, make more tutorials. This is great!

P.S. What was with the crashing plane?! It had me cracking up!

Helbereth responds:

Thanks, I tried to make it visually pleasing and intellectually informative. I already plan to make another - just not immediately.

The crashing plane was completely random and pretty much pointless. The idea came when i was writing that section of the tutorial. Something about 'layer planes' sparked me to comment that 'no we're not going on an airplane'...

So initially I made the plane and just flew it by...

Then I thought... 'there aren't supposed to be any planes, and this might confuse people'... so I made it crash and burn, just to seal the deal.

Doing that plane is what sparked me to expand the scope of the buttons and extras. I figured 'well, that was fun... I'll make more!'.

Anyway, thanks for the compliments and the review!

[SarmagophilisStudios]

funny and helpful

good sense of humor and very informative