Learn Flash

I have a circus-themed poem that I want to make into a (simple! crude!) Flash animation. The other day I made little animation of a circus tent being sketched. Once the flag is drawn at the top it waves a little :)

I haven’t yet managed to use the bone tool and the motion tween to make a female contortionist contorting. But I will figure it out!

I knew my Flash class would be hard! And it’s an extra challenge because everyone else has years of experience with Illustrator and Photoshop, whereas I have…hours of experience of messing around with those programs.

A couple of times I fell behind, and because I didn’t want to hold up the class, I just watched what the instructor was doing. This turned out to be a terrible strategy, because he would figure out I didn’t have the right thing on my screen and stop everything to get me back up to speed.

So now I know to just go ahead and yell out, “Wait, that didn’t work,” or whatever, because it saves more time in the end.

Most of the time I’m right with everyone else, and I feel like I really am learning a lot in a short amount of time. It’s a very complex program, and it will take me SO much practice to really be able to do cool things with it! But I’m going to get it loaded onto my work computer so I can work on it.

All Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at work. So excited!