Reviews for The Big Fat Tutorial

[Fooliolo]

OMG A KEEPER!

those other tutorials should stay blammed forever! This one pwnz!

Now enough of that, the only thing that you didn't take much thought into was explaining the masking part. I don't have the actual flash program, so I guess I'm missing something, although you should have done a better job of explaining it. Also, the cinematic slides in your last tutorial needs working on. Last but not least, your flash is a little on the heavy side in the lag factor compared to the overall average lag of the other flash movies, of which I should say runs pretty smoothly on my crappy computer.

BTW, I found all three major easter eggs! Mwahahaha! One's a sound test (tell nobody!) another gives the history of the games which you borrowed music from (which also contains a message pointing to the sound test) and the last one has the statistics of each of your animations. By "easy to find", I think you actually meant using the cheapo button though. Ever thought about proofing against that? (it's possible, but then one of the easter eggs would be disastrously hard to find)

Helbereth responds:

It does tend to be graphic intensive, I realize. I reccomended medium or low quality settings for some sections. I have ways to help the lag, but it doesn't work on a paused frame (and this being a tutorial, it's loaded with them).

The masking section is really explaining a simple thing. It's a cookie cutter effect - it just requires a lot of forethought.

I chose not to have the buttons be completely hidden because - honestly - the easter eggs are informative as much as they're fun. I didn't want them to be impossible to find. I'm not sure which one you think would have been impossible to locate otherwise (I have some idea) but I chose to offer little hints here and there. Heck there's a message onscreen in the credits that says when there's a button there...

I actually used the one in the credits so that people would watch them (sneaky).

The cinematic slides were done this-afternoon. I literally only spent 20 mins making all three. I've done much better slide effects... I just wanted to demonstrate them.

[zxrangerxz]

omg, thank you!

FINALLY, a way to teach my friends without actually teaching them LOL. I hate being bugged by my friends to help em wit flash works.. you just saved me hours of sleep =)

Helbereth responds:

Hey, any way I can. I was probably the guy asking those retarded questions about this time last year, so I know how that is...

[Sol-Blade]

Nice!

Wow, this just might make me start creating my own flash.

Otherwise, it was a great look into the flash process, great tutorial indeed!

Talk about, user-friendly. =)

Helbereth responds:

First I'm helping people, now I'm inspiring people.

*shifty eyes*

*head explodes*

[ecfminsc]

All my 5 belong to this Toot!

Awesome toot, being a newbie flash animator. It was extremely helpful. Rawk on mang and thx!

Helbereth responds:

Half of that is beyond my level of d00d speak comprehension, but I'll take it as a compliment. Thanks!

[pikpikcarrotmon]

One of the best tutorials here!

I've been tinkering around with stuff, but your animation really gives direction to my work. I love your forest effects and will be using them in the overhead views of the city in my upcoming blockbuster "Flash Noir." The "random" faery flitting effects were very interesting and useful. I never understood masks until this tutorial. I didn't even notice how the shine stayed while the gears moved, but it's a great subtle effect that, once again, I will use in my animation. Music, well, it was varied and appropriate. I like the fold-out animation on the buttons as well as the "SECRET OMG!" This is, in my humblest of opinions, the only tutorial worthy of being an actual Daily Feature and possibly Top 50 material. Keep up the work, and who knows--maybe I'll get better and be doing a collab with you guys in the future! <_< >_> <_< >_> ...or mmmaybe not.

Helbereth responds:

There's an object viewer you can access through the credits that lists virtually every object and displays the number of moving parts involved. I really didn't notice how much stuff I'd made for this thing until I started putting that section together.

Tom and Wade, listen to these people! They love me!

Okay I'll go back in my hole now...