w00t! i am the saviour!
Best tutorial i have ever seen! I will save this so i can use this when i start flash. Very nice effects.
Reviews for "The Big Fat Tutorial"
Helbereth responds:
Well hopefully it will help lots of people. It has beginner, moderate and advanced techniques. There's also easter eggs (did I forget to mention that?) hidden all around (there's 3 fully developed eggs and a few random eggs thrown in during the tutorial).
Now to find me a good theme...
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Helbereth responds:
The basis of all art... the theme. Good luck! Thanks for the good scores.
Awesome i guess
I couldn't get it to load but what I've read from other reviews it must be good and coming from a flash artist liek me thats saying something I mean look at omega vs sigma rounds 1-4 if you did good on this tutorial i may use soem of the technigues in my next and give you full credit
Helbereth responds:
Whaddya mean it wouldn't load?
It's not flash 8 or anything. Granted the preloader doesn't come up until after all the sound is loaded (something I SO tried to avoid, but ended up having to do), and that's not 'til about 35% (there's a lot of sound clips etc.).
Helpful but annoying at some points
Overall it was extremely helpful and i have learnt quite a bit from it, but what annoyed me was the Faires and the crashing plane, they werent really necesary, but thats all that got to me. The rest was perfect
Helbereth responds:
Most of that I made to keep myself interested while working on the descriptions etc..
Look at the credits... they're completely overdone, but I had fun making them.
Even though it's clunky, it helped.
This tutorial was very informative for me, it really helped a lot.
I finally figured out the faux 3D stuff in the Composition Tutorial.
If you build up the scene like Helbereth says and then tween the camera across, everything will move at the same speed. You have to tween the planes, not the camera.
I still have problems with masking though.