for those of you still in high school like me, what do you hope to do when you get out of high school? mainly, do you plan on using the skills aquired roaming the interweb, whether it be flash, maya, photoshop, etc...

I for one hope to use them. I hope to get into the game industry, maybe being a GIU or texture artist. and even if i dont get into anything like that, i have good enough marks in school to do pretty much anything i want.

so, what about the rest of you?

At 10/4/06 10:31 PM, Mogly wrote: Do any of you like the Strokes? I started listening to Ratm over the past week again, and also the Prodigy. I wanna get some loud songs, but not the sorta heavy crap if you know what I mean..

If you listened to spanish rock id recommend some good metal/power bands. But alas, i seem to be the only latin here nowadays. :'(

At 10/4/06 10:34 PM, Neashir wrote: No luck, i've already mastered that one :(

You should move onto guitar then!

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with bass guitar, but like the name suggests, it really is just an instrument to compliment the sound of other instruments (ie: guitars in rock; piano/sax/etc in jazz etc).

At 10/4/06 10:37 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: You should move onto guitar then!

I want to, but i'm flat out broke. Parents are no help, "value of a dollar" pfft. No place around here going to hire a 14 year old :(

bastards

Sounds like i need a get rich quick sheme :P

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with bass guitar, but like the name suggests, it really is just an instrument to compliment the sound of other instruments (ie: guitars in rock; piano/sax/etc in jazz etc).

>:o Someone's askin' for it.

jk <3

But have you ever heard Primus? I'd say the guitar is the back up instrument more than the lead instrument.

At 10/4/06 10:31 PM, Mogly wrote: Get 'higher ground' the Chilli's version.

Do any of you like the Strokes? I started listening to Ratm over the past week again, and also the Prodigy. I wanna get some loud songs, but not the sorta heavy crap if you know what I mean..

chili's and strokes man. love em

At 10/4/06 10:45 PM, Neashir wrote: Sounds like i need a get rich quick sheme :P

The first electric i ever got cost me, after converting to dollars, around 150 $. It included Amp, cable, a few picks, the guitar and its ... place to keep safe (GOD i keep forgetting that word). YOu can get one for way cheaper though... you already have an amp.

You could always do a game and get sponsored, that'll get you money. BTW what ever HAPPENED to your site? :(

At 10/4/06 10:48 PM, Blaze wrote: BTW what ever HAPPENED to your site? :(

More money D:
Apparently I violated some compyright thingy by hosting an Mp3 on there, and now I've gotta pay a 20 buck fee to get it back up.

At 10/4/06 10:51 PM, Neashir wrote: Apparently I violated some compyright thingy by hosting an Mp3 on there, and now I've gotta pay a 20 buck fee to get it back up.

o__o... what... copy... omg. *runs to delete the mp3 he uploaded* GOD DAMN. D=

At 10/4/06 10:51 PM, Neashir wrote:

At 10/4/06 10:48 PM, Blaze wrote: BTW what ever HAPPENED to your site? :(

More money D:
Apparently I violated some compyright thingy by hosting an Mp3 on there, and now I've gotta pay a 20 buck fee to get it back up.

That crap is ridiculous. If people want their songs protected, they should put a little thing on the mp3 that when tried to be uploaded somewhere, recieves an error that says "This is a copyright mp3, hosting it is illegal and protected by it's respectful owner(s)" or something. That way, if people get around it, then they can sue. Or, if you're giving permission. Not what I want, but if the authors want it so bad, they should protect their crap.

At 10/4/06 10:35 PM, 23450 wrote: for those of you still in high school like me, what do you hope to do when you get out of high school? mainly, do you plan on using the skills aquired roaming the interweb, whether it be flash, maya, photoshop, etc...

so, what about the rest of you?

I wanna go to film school and do indies films and animations. If I do any indy animation I might use flash for it and animate with whoever else is gonna be animating.
If film school fails I'll have a position for university(RMIT or ANU) and go get a degree in engineering.

At 10/4/06 10:42 PM, Matomic wrote: P.S:
If you want to become a filmmaker - director, producer, writer, etc... GET AN ENGLISH DEGREE. Becuase then you know how to tell a story, which is the foundation of a movie.

Ok, I'll try and remember that.

At 10/4/06 11:45 PM, skooj-lik-chaah wrote: At 10/4/06 10:42 PM, Matomic wrote: P.S:
If you want to become a filmmaker - director, producer, writer, etc... GET AN ENGLISH DEGREE. Becuase then you know how to tell a story, which is the foundation of a movie.

Ok, I'll try and remember that.

Although an english degree would help you, I don't think it is necessary. English is more of a skill than anything and the degree to go with it just says you know your english. I wouldn't consider indy film making a profession where you would be paralleled to your degrees, especially ones in english.

Still take the classes; writing IS important for a story, but you shouldn't need a degree.

And for what I plan to do after high school is go to college/university-- 4+ year-- I'm used to calling everything college be it the global case or not. There I want to study business management and game design to pursue a career in console game creation and management. I figured flash is a lot like it but at a smaller scale. If I can pull flash around then I can tinker with other programs, which I have been doing, and other programming languages, which I intend to do. I think I am setting myself up accurately with my hobbies and my advanced school that I am attending for graphic design.

At 10/5/06 12:50 AM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: Although an english degree would help you, I don't think it is necessary. English is more of a skill than anything and the degree to go with it just says you know your english. I wouldn't consider indy film making a profession where you would be paralleled to your degrees, especially ones in english.

Still take the classes; writing IS important for a story, but you shouldn't need a degree.

Well that will work better but what if I pull a George Lucas and become and uber big corporation...doubt it...

And for what I plan to do after high school is go to college/university-- 4+ year-- I'm used to calling everything college be it the global case or not. There I want to study business management and game design to pursue a career in console game creation and management. I figured flash is a lot like it but at a smaller scale. If I can pull flash around then I can tinker with other programs, which I have been doing, and other programming languages, which I intend to do. I think I am setting myself up accurately with my hobbies and my advanced school that I am attending for graphic design.

Speaking of graphic design, I have been thinking of a degree in graphic design so that I can do some freelance work and make some extra money every now and then.

At 10/5/06 12:57 AM, skooj-lik-chaah wrote: Speaking of graphic design, I have been thinking of a degree in graphic design so that I can do some freelance work and make some extra money every now and then.

At this advanced skool that I mentioned, we had a guest speaker from the IT field talk about professionalism and what he looks at in interviews and resumes and such. The way he made it sound, and the title that goes with that guy, I got the impression that for a little freelance work you wouldn't need a degree. A lot of experience/skill with the program, some certs maybe and you should be good to go.

He said that in general he will take the more experienced than the over certified for smaller jobs just because they can get the job done quick, easily, and efficiently. Now if they wanted a long term employee they would want someone they could mold so a youngin' fresh from college with a shiny degree would be ideal in that scenario, but not for what you are looking for.

At 10/5/06 01:08 AM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: At this advanced skool that I mentioned, we had a guest speaker from the IT field talk about professionalism and what he looks at in interviews and resumes and such. The way he made it sound, and the title that goes with that guy, I got the impression that for a little freelance work you wouldn't need a degree. A lot of experience/skill with the program, some certs maybe and you should be good to go.

He said that in general he will take the more experienced than the over certified for smaller jobs just because they can get the job done quick, easily, and efficiently. Now if they wanted a long term employee they would want someone they could mold so a youngin' fresh from college with a shiny degree would be ideal in that scenario, but not for what you are looking for.

Ahh ok, that would probably suit me a lot better. The only thing I probably don't like about doing client work is that they may want something but they're vague on what they want or they're too fussy and wanna have it this way but they didin't describe it good enough. I'm sure a lot of people aren't like that but there are still some who might be like that.
Hmm, I should make the special effects box I saw on Attack of the Show once, that'd be pretty neat-o to use for filmed stuff.

After looking at skooj-lik-chaah's alias in bewilderment, my mind began to ponder about all of the aliases (aliai?) I have seen on this website; many of which are very unique. Simple question being, how did you think of it/inherit it/come to know it as yourself?

My name, being original also, came from seventh grade in my english class. I had a wicked sweet teacher and I also like english so it was win win, I enjoyed that class. Well we had journal writing every class, which was everyday. The journal writings were on given topics on every day but Fridays. On Fridays we had freewriting for our journal. Somewhere in the school year I began writing about The Adventures of Billy and Frank who were two dingo eating fuzzballs. I am not exactly sure on the pinpoint origin of the species I concocted, but I think it may have been from some sort of assignment where you had to write alliterations for each letter of the alphabet (which would explain why the initials of the words are DEF, which come right after another in teh alphabet).
After writing these stories for the remainder of the year other characters were introduced and they went all over the world--it was a social studies/language arts class so it all seemed to fit. In eighth grade I got the same teacher but we no longer did journal writing so my buddies were seperated from me for years to come. It wasn't until sometime in my sophomore year of high school, last year, that I started to use them again. This came from when I got an aim screen name. EVERYTHING was taken, or so it seemed, I didn't want to be lame and use numbers so I sat there for probably an hour trying to get a name. I tried using the 'put in three words and we will make you a screen name' system, but drums, footbag, and quintessential don't mix very well. In the end dingoeatingfuzzballs came back from the void of my mind, but it wouldn't fit so I cut of the balls (that really sounds morbid) and left it as dingoeatingfuzz. From there it grew and became my NG alias in late July I believe.

Now your turn, where did you get your 'name' from?

At 10/5/06 01:40 AM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: After looking at skooj-lik-chaah's alias in bewilderment, my mind began to ponder about all of the aliases (aliai?) I have seen on this website; many of which are very unique. Simple question being, how did you think of it/inherit it/come to know it as yourself?

In the end dingoeatingfuzzballs came back from the void of my mind, but it wouldn't fit so I cut of the balls (that really sounds morbid) and left it as dingoeatingfuzz. From there it grew and became my NG alias in late July I believe.

That made me lol.

Now your turn, where did you get your 'name' from?

Well mine was some character I made up a while ago but the character has now worn of me, I came up with the name of this character by making a bunch of random sounds and spelling them in a way that they didn't look like any real words. I kinda wanna change my alias now though cause like I said before the character had worn of me, I've been thinking of PaperBagMask cause of a comic I did for visual arts...and thats what my deviantART is called.
Oh yeah, if you wanna see the comic I put it on my deviantART.

English degrees are pretty shit.
They do in-depth sentence analysis, interpret metaphors and read TONS of novels... Ewwhhhhwwhh!
They don't really give you more imagination. They just make you a better writer and allow you to teach English (with some additional training).

I think takes 3 years for a decent degree... What a waste. Most popular novelists don't have an English degree.

There is a new course starting at the uni closest to me called "New Media Arts." They say that in the new media industry you can just stick to one thing, like Graphics design, you need to know some other things. So this course offers graphics design, animation ( both flash and 3d), webdesign, digital photography and digital music. You can choose to major in a certain subject and you can work with the other students in the class, so if you need some photos for you website, you can get someone who is majoring in photography and work together.

Sounds good to me.

At 10/5/06 05:46 AM, Chames wrote: Sounds good to me.

That sounds like a relatively easy course. The course I want to do covers the C languages, and goes through every aspect of 3d game development. Which, I'm not sure if I want to do, because it's harder to reach a large audience over the internet with games written in C than it is with games written in flash. And with the revision of AS3.0 it seems like in a matter of 2-3 year's flash should be able to handle 3d easily.

At 10/5/06 07:31 AM, Vengeance wrote: That sounds like a relatively easy course. The course I want to do covers the C languages, and goes through every aspect of 3d game development. Which, I'm not sure if I want to do, because it's harder to reach a large audience over the internet with games written in C than it is with games written in flash. And with the revision of AS3.0 it seems like in a matter of 2-3 year's flash should be able to handle 3d easily.

It would be kinda odd if they made Flash have the capabilties to animate 3D objects and they also tossed in the z-axis. Though I doubt Adobe will do that but if they did they'd probably make it be like getting the professional versions of Flash, so they would make something by the name of Flash X 3D Professional.

At 10/5/06 01:40 AM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: Now your turn, where did you get your 'name' from?

I think I've answered this one before...
Yup. In this thread as well. Back near the top of Page 11.

Incidently, I drew up that aforemeantioned coat of arms very quickly...

Per Chevron Azur a Orange Two Waves, crashing inwards, Proper a Chevron Argent six, low even-split mullet Sable Plain Ermine, a Sledgehammer Proper. Motto "Inflexi Terra Occuro"

At 10/5/06 07:53 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I think I've answered this one before...
Yup. In this thread as well. Back near the top of Page 11.

Incidently, I drew up that aforemeantioned coat of arms very quickly...

Per Chevron Azur a Orange Two Waves, crashing inwards, Proper a Chevron Argent six, low even-split mullet Sable Plain Ermine, a Sledgehammer Proper. Motto "Inflexi Terra Occuro"

Lol, thats funny I wanna make a shiled now but I can't be stuffed to...though I"m trying to figure out whether I should change my alias to PaperBagMask...

At 10/5/06 07:53 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 10/5/06 01:40 AM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: Now your turn, where did you get your 'name' from?

I think I've answered this one before...
Yup. In this thread as well. Back near the top of Page 11.

Ive always wondered if your screename meant that you liked to beat up dykes. i know i do.

Isnt a dyke also a vent or something inside a volcano? Or is that dike?

These flash forums are slow right now...

Honestly,
Everyone talking about Graphic Designing; I MAY BE A LITTLE LATE but..Here's my plan.

Alright; I'm a freshman in high school. (don't beat me up!) And I was thinking about majoring and getting a degree in graphic designing. I've been interested into art for quite a while since I was a little kid. So this seemed awesome to me.

Here's my plan.
I'll go to college for Graphic Designing and illustration.
Than I'll do Animation on the side as a side job just for fun since I don't want to work for a company. Since working for someone takes the fun out of it; like you don't have your own ideas anymore. So the animations would be my little thing like a hobby.

That's how I'm gonna do it. And during the day I'll work in graphic designing for client projects and be illustrating books and all.
It seems alot but really it isn't. It can be a handful but this is what I would enjoy to do in the future.

That is all.

At 10/5/06 08:34 AM, Claytron wrote: Isnt a dyke also a vent or something inside a volcano? Or is that dike?

Dictionary.com to the rescue!

At 10/5/06 12:43 PM, Rudy wrote: Here's my plan.
I'll go to college for Graphic Designing and illustration.
Than I'll do Animation on the side as a side job just for fun since I don't want to work for a company. Since working for someone takes the fun out of it; like you don't have your own ideas anymore. So the animations would be my little thing like a hobby.

Rudy is a mild mannered mailroom minimum wage slave by day, but whenever there's an animation to be done or a nation to save, he leaps into the nearest phonebox and becomes... Flashman! Defender of the Portal! Man of Actionscript! Can blam tall filesizes with a single vote!

Somehow I don't see it. Work really cuts into a demanding hobby like Flash, and if your mind's not into it after spending two hours commuting and eight hours at a desk then you'll really fall apart. Naturally some people pull it off, but they seem to be in creative jobs or at least jobs they've got some calling in. Denying that just so you can keep your business and personal life so seperate just sounds like too much to take on.

At 10/5/06 01:40 AM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: Now your turn, where did you get your 'name' from?

My mama gave me mine.

At 10/4/06 08:36 PM, Inglor wrote: NC, the serial AG gave you is legal, that's what our lawyer said, apperantly you were busted for using flash before AG gave you flash :)

No before I used the free trial. The serial key you guys gave me wherent legit. Dont worry police dont check these forums you dont need to lie

I intend to do a Multimedia Game Developement course, and the New Media Arts course (as chames was talking about, since we live in the same ville)

These two courses should boost me into a good career, however, I was thinking of starting my own buidness?

Anyway, That is my plans for the future, and flash is a great addition to a porfolio, I might even think about invorperating flash into my future career/s.

Well we'll just wait and see.

Note: My name means..
Clayton: From the pottery -.-'
Claytron however is a nickname friends call me (no idea why)it just sounds cooler than Clayton.