excellent
you are truly a pro. This is going straight to my favorites and I'm going to use it.
Reviews for "The Big Fat Tutorial"
Helbereth responds:
You and like 50 other people... I'm really happy to get responses like this.
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...
Wow, this is a big help.
As a starting animator in flash (I have an education in MX from school, which means I can tween and not much else) I found this very helpful. It also held a high amount of personality, which added interest not found in other tutorials (i.e. frame-by-frame crap). So thanks again, and please make more tutorials on harder subjects.
Helbereth responds:
As I learn this stuff myself I'll probably make tutorials just to beat it into my own head (learn by repitition). As they get loaded I'll publish them.
I personally think that nobody should be in the dark about flash. It's so versatile you can do virtually anything, so why should people feel so retarded when they open it up the first time (like I did - and believe me I was TERRIBLE).
Wow this will really help!!
I thank you for making this really helpful tutorial. You are the few who will help budding flash artist, like me, get our ideas out of our head and into the public, for better or for worse. You even went out of your sanity to help. I salute you!!!
Helbereth responds:
And to think - I was nervous about submissing this... for fear of being blammed...
I learned a... "bunch"
Great work dude. You had a great way of explaining wat you ment everything was very easy to understand and very well done. all of the parts worked well. And you gotta love those credits.
Can't wait to see more form you!
Helbereth responds:
Originally I was going to have simple credits... but then I realized I had 550+ items in my library.... so I made that whole hullabaloo.
Did anyone find the easter eggs yet?