Flash Dev Practices. Give Away The FLA's?
Hi Folks,
I have been subcontracting Flash pieces for a company for a few years and recently they started asking for the FLA files as well.
It seems the real value in what I do for them is of course conceptualing, architecting, and coding visual ideas. There's also a fair amount of original art in the pieces as well. Once that's done, content could be easily swapped out, creating derivative works, art objects re-used, etc. On the other hand, they probably shouldn't need to consult me every time there is a minor content change for their clients.
Just curious as to what everyone's thoughts on the matter and general practices are... sort of an informal survey.
Very curious to hear your experiences,
Paul
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Posted on: 08-29-2005, 04:11 PM
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Is there any place on this forum where these are discussed?
Additionally, how many of ya'll are acquainted with the term?
I think, personally, that a forum devoted to ActionScript should have more topics about object oriented code and about actually writing really good code, and about how that is done.
Does anybody know a direction to point me in?
Thanks
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