Flash
Evaluation and TV Show
Adam
Boland
Flash Review
Adobe Flash is a very versatile piece of
software, you can do frame by frame or tween animation. My first time using
Flash properly this year was really good. At first I found a bit weird to use
but I think it’s really easy to pick up the basics.
It
was mainly drawing in flash that I had a bit of trouble with at first. For me I
found somethings as disadvantages, drawing using vector shapes is not too great
because you have to manipulate circles, oval, squares, etc, etc, to get the
shape you want. This technique is time consuming at first but once you get the
hang of it you get quicker at it. Most of the tools are all a bit weird to use
at first, the line too in particular was a bit confusing as well. It is
although really helpful, you can use it to mark off sections for cell shading
and even use it as a dummy line making full movements symbols for transporting
and resizing. One of the main things I really like about drawing in Flash is
they are vector based which means that you can zoom in really close and the
picture won’t get distorted unlike pixel based things.
Animating in Flash isn’t too difficult,
getting used to the different tweens is a bit challenging. Basic tweens and
shape tweens are the main types we used. They work fairly well but sometimes
they distort and if they do that you have to use a shape hint to correct this.
Shape hints work really well. So all in all I found Adobe Flash tricky to use
at first but once I got used to it, it became a lot easier to use.
TV Show