F-L-A-S-H!

For the past 2 weeks we have been looking at flash animation, although i must admit i am still completely in the dark about it, I have cs4 at home wheras we are using cs3 at school which doesn't help as the overall layout/look is quite different. I think i shall revert back to cs3 until i get the hang of it! 

So i feel very behind the rest of the group, as I still haven't come to grips with the software. If only we were given handouts to accompany the session, then i wouldn't need to spend so much time trying to take notes! I could do the work and forget about the notes! this is how it was done last year, (or the year before?) when we were inducted into photoshop- we were all given detailed step by step handouts that covered everything we were doing in that session!

Oh well, I wish i'd applied to be student rep now cause these are the sort of things i would be asking for cause I feel it would benefit the whole group, and it makes sense to have notes as reference, I hate being the only one taking notes also cause it makes me feel as though I am the thickest one who can't process data in my head so has to take notes! 

anyway i just wanted to post some animations I have been looking at which were doing primarily using flash.

this first one is a students first attempt at flash, I think it's prety cool! 

In this one below, which is another student animation, I like the way 

he/she has used transparency in the opening shot of the bushes parting 

and in the end where you see the gunslinger fade.

This last one here is from an animated show called "Broken Saints" which started

out as an internet series about the inter-twining and revolving lives of 4 people,

the series became so popular that the creators were given backing to have the entire

show recreated on dvd, they stuck to using flash but have tweaked the show here

and there.

The show has now won the sundance film festival award and is over 5 hours long.