Reviews for The Big Fat Tutorial

[S-K]

OMG... @_@

Not many movies get me bookmarking them and this is one of the lucky few! When it comes to getting advice on flash I have this strange belief about it being like a martial arts film, if you ask the kung fu master for training you're scared you're gonna get an ass kicking! o_O

Can't stress enough how good this is, anything that intimidates me made in Flash has to be damn good! At the same time, the information included here for learners such as myself is gold-like. Dammit man! It's soo good you put me off my animation project I was working on @_@

Helbereth responds:

Well, thanks for the good review. Kung fu master? The kind of people the answer questions with questions, y'mean?

I try not to do that. When you teach someone you're supposed to answer their questions. The only question they should have when you're done is 'how do I impliment this new information?' They shouldn't be having to fuss about technical questions.

[scaarub]

Possibly the greatest tut on newgrounds

This is an EXTREMELY straightforward tutorial, using basic techniques to create advanced appearing settings. It is an incredible blend of learning and fun, and the cartoon element adds enjoyability and the feeling that flash isnt a complicated program, but simply what you can make of it.
This is a very good tutorial, i recommend anyone who hasn't already done so by now to take a quick look. It really does explain how to make amazing backgrounds and miscellanious things. My congratulations to the author, the first flash ive seen him produce here, but i could have missed a few, and it is incredible. We need more tutorials like this for the newbies!
Again, Amazing! I am very very impressed

Helbereth responds:

This is the first one I put a lot of work into, really. There were 3 others but I was mostly testing to see if people got my sense of humor - and my sense of scares. My batting average is probably permanently scarred by the first two. The third I'm proud of.

In any case, I intentionally spent time to make it as straightforward as possible. No one word explanations, and no lack of reasons why something works. I even slipped in suggestions here and there on how to make use of the different processes.

Virtually all the peripheral stuff was added to help people with short attention spans. One with ADD will tend to turn it off if they get bored. I slipped in as many things as I could think of (or, well, as many as I thought I needed) for them to click on when they get bored somewhere. Or something that jumps out and catches their attention to keep them involved.

Most of it came out as a stream of thought or was born out of the wording I used (the airplane came out of the 'layer planes' description).

The credits were just fun to make.

Anyway, I hope it gets used. 25k views means a lot of people have seen it (and probably reopened it to view something again), but I hope a lot more see it and find ways to make use of it.

Thanks for the review!

[DjiEss]

awesome!

Im learning flash myself and all these informations were very usefull! You should make more tutorial (preloaders, animations tips stuff like that) all your explanations are cristal clear

Helbereth responds:

Thanks. I plan to make more, but I have a few other things I want to do first. Making a tutorial is an annoying process - far more annoyng and tedious than a movie, imo - and I'd rather give myself recovery time so my next one isn't just a rehash.

Thanks for the review!

[fmpMedia]

Useful

Wow, I already knew everything else but that camera thing was useful. Thanks!

[aspera34]

Perfect

i learned everything i need to know from here. I also 'stole' your tree models as references. and i finally understand movie clips. You also showed me how to do gradient fills, which i've been longing to do for eons. I'm only half way done as i write this review. Thanks alot--very nice tutorial! I love the music playing to, wish i could download it

Helbereth responds:

There's easter eggs in a few places. They're all referenced in the 'author's comments'. One of them contains directions for the music used not taken from the NG Audio portal - those links are available over on the left.