At 7/2/08 10:29 AM, Gatling wrote: I remember the time when tweens looked hard to do. I started out by following tutorials and asking advice from my friends. Right now I feel like a got the basics down, I can do FBF, tween without it looking unnaturally and I can even script a little.

So Newgrounds Flash Regs, how long have you been using Flash and how did you first heard of it?

6 months =3
Actually I was always interested in programming games (computer/video w/e) I ended up buyin a book "Beginning Flash / Game Programming for Dummies"
By Andy Harris. Not a great book (I stopped once he got to pong)
And thats where I started =3

Been using flash for 2years or so now. Got into it through NG, obviously.

How long is your flash

Damn, I always look at it like I'm still new to the game (sort of), but my flash experience is actually gettin' up there. I'd say I've used flash for about 4 years now? Not much to show for it, a lot of unfinished projects... but I'm tying up a lot of loose ends right now so that's always good.

I've been doing flash for just over 2 years, on and off.

At 7/2/08 01:37 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote:

6 months =3
Actually I was always interested in programming games (computer/video w/e) I ended up buyin a book "Beginning Flash / Game Programming for Dummies"
By Andy Harris. Not a great book (I stopped once he got to pong)
And thats where I started =3

Whats insane about this is that he can code a game like essence "working title" from only 6 months of AS knowledge O.o
(check his page for more info)

How long be use flash is ?
4..maybe 5 years... wait... *counts in head*
5 YEARS since... sometime.. a skipped for almost 2 years though so maybe about 3... i'm just starting to like my stuff now too :P

How long have you been using flash
4 1/2 years now. Mostly these past two years.

It started out being "OMFG I CAN MAKE MY OWN CARTOONS?! WOAHHH"

And then it quickly escalated to "I can make people move... and jump... and I can program games with this thing (flash) too?! "

Then I practiced and practiced, made some flash, submitted one to an AG Contest and won 2nd place and here I am, 1 1/2 years later.

2001 I started nudging it, 2002 is when I really got into using Flash. 2004/2005 I went from animation to games, and in 2006 it became more or less my job as well. The end!

How long have you been using flash?

About 1 year.

I started playing around in Flash in 2003 i think... but I stopped like last year because I realized that I suck at that kind of animation and I decided to focus my skills on art in Photoshop and some motion graphics here and there in After Effects. Recently though, I've been wanting to try my hand at Flash again, just to see if my acquired knowledge and skill in art will transfer over to Flash animation.

How long have you been using flash?

Grade 9 I took a graphics arts class where I made a few animation loops, learned the stop(); and play(); actionscript, made one point and click game for a final project, and then didn't touch it again till I was in grade 11 in november of 2006. By the first month of 2007 in less then 3 months I released my first Duder short. <3
Been a flash-addict since then.

Though once I finish savin' up for my camera I'll be taking a break or two do get some short films out of my system.

I started using my mates version of Flash MX when I was about 8 or so, and that must have been 2001-ish? After that I kept on trying at his house before finally managing to get a copy of it myself a few years later when I must have been 12. I tried to animate but most of it wasn't very good, although it was a nice learning experience. Then when I was about 14 I started to really do animation and I got quite far before stopping for a while...

Now I'm 15 and trying my best to get back into art & Flash, I've done loads of tutorials and research as well as practise and I think it's paying off. I want to finish a project for a competition in September and so I'm planning away.

At 7/2/08 01:38 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Been using flash for 2years or so now. Got into it through NG, obviously.

I lied. I was using it for about 6months before flash 8 which was released in 2005. So thats 3+ years. I've been doing AS for about 1 and a half years.

Meet-Ups

Any Florida meet-ups in the works? We need to get together in the House of the Mouse, lol.

Around 3 years for me. I really need to finish something...

At 7/2/08 03:33 PM, Xeptic wrote: Around 3 years for me. I really need to finish something...

Make it happen. Personally I find that all of my movies HAVE to be longer than 4 minutes :P I made 5 tributes to games (DMC, MGS, KH) and then i decided to go in a more serious direction and bring a story that i wrote to life. It's going well =D

I suggest if you're having trouble finishing things, make them a short funny flash that only takes a week to make. also check out sheezyart for inspiration, they have a few flash clubs more or less for short funny flash's. (Search Dunderaxel, he's one of my favorites)

At 7/2/08 03:58 PM, Duchednier wrote: I suggest if you're having trouble finishing things, make them a short funny flash that only takes a week to make. also check out sheezyart for inspiration, they have a few flash clubs more or less for short funny flash's. (Search Dunderaxel, he's one of my favorites)

I'm not really good at making humorous flashes, I don't have a mic and am not a native English speaker so I'd have to let someone else do the voice acting and as far as I'm concerned doing the voice acting is one of the most important and entertaining parts of making a comedy animation. I like doing stuff that is a little more ambitious, unfortunately, my own ambition is what usually kills me. I'm working on something fairly big right now which is coming along okay, I try not to rush it, do a few small things in between to keep it entertaining for myself.

Equally a good plan =D Want to shed some insight as to what your making? I'm always interested in seeing new work ^_^

I got the flash trial in 2002, worst decision I've ever made.

At 7/2/08 04:36 PM, Duchednier wrote: Equally a good plan =D Want to shed some insight as to what your making? I'm always interested in seeing new work ^_^

I'm going to wait a little longer with that until I'm like half-way done, just to make sure I'm not whoring something I'll never finish ;)

At 7/2/08 04:57 PM, Xeptic wrote: I'm going to wait a little longer with that until I'm like half-way done, just to make sure I'm not whoring something I'll never finish ;)

Those that walk a hundred leagues think not that their journey is half ended until the ninetieth league.

At 7/2/08 04:49 PM, BoMToons wrote: I got the flash trial in 2002, worst decision I've ever made.

HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT. TAKE THAT BACK. >=(

At 7/2/08 05:45 PM, Paranoia wrote:

At 7/2/08 04:57 PM, Xeptic wrote: I'm going to wait a little longer with that until I'm like half-way done, just to make sure I'm not whoring something I'll never finish ;)

Those that walk a hundred leagues think not that their journey is half ended until the ninetieth league.

That made you sound pretty intelligent, nice job :p

Holidays
I finally hasz them. Not a moment too soon I'd say, I've been studying so hard lately the only thing I saw when I closed my eyes was snippets of XML, XBRL, XSLT, XQuery, XML-schema and the like, not really my cup of tea. Anyway, first year of uni was a piece of cake really, the year flew past. I take it everyone else has been enjoying their holidays for a few weeks already?

On a completely unrelated note, this clip put a smile on my face. A man in a dress imitating Christopher Walken, what else can you possibly want?

At 7/2/08 05:58 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote:

At 7/2/08 04:49 PM, BoMToons wrote: I got the flash trial in 2002, worst decision I've ever made.

HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT. TAKE THAT BACK. >=(

Unless he's referring to the fact that he used up his trial THEN and can't has flash now... NOT COOL

how long have you been doing flash

Probably about 3 years. On and off though. There isn't too much to show for it but i'm getting up there. =D. I started like some other people did, cool i can make movies then i moved onto to games and controlling your own people.

At 7/2/08 06:58 PM, Dragonberry wrote: Hi, im new to the flash lounge, my name is Michael.

Whoa my name is Michael too...Wanna be buddies!? Hah, just playin.

Anyway...

How do you guys get so good at flash so fast. Like DawnOfDusk has been learning for 6 months and is making a big project...?

Maybe its my terrible learning...ness. I start to read through AS: Main and test all that stuff, but then I get distracted with something besides Flash...It sucks :'(

I've been usin flash for 6 years.

yuck.

Ok, well now I have a question,

who do you believe is the best programmer and/or animator on Newgrounds?

This excluds Adam Phillip(s?) unless if you think someone is better than him (say so)
I got bored and I just wanted to see ppl's opinion,

1 rule: You cannot declare yourself as the best of any of these two questions.

At 7/2/08 09:49 PM, Dragonberry wrote: since chluaid is disqualified, i would have to say tom fulp and whoever else did pico's school

lol, well he's not really disqualified (I know, I didn't clarify) but I'm just saying that if you know someone better than him, than say so.

Tom's a programmer (I believe) but why would you not include chuliad?

Haiii