I Want To Use Flash , The Problem Is I Don't Even Know How Or Where To Start :(
Hi. Mi name is Johnny. I saw one nice flash movie recently. Since then I wanted to dedicate myself to make flash movies. I was really amazed with what I saw. I can say that flash animation is unique and has style. I would like to know how to make flash animation. I'm not trying to say to teach me your style, but if you can, please I would like to know how to start. I have Macromedia flash MX professional 2004. Since I have it I haven't been able to do anything since I do not know not even to start to work on it. It looks really hard, or maybe just confusing. I think I can handle it, since I understand HTML and I'm a webmaster. I just cannot find the first acceleration. Can you help me pushing me past the start line? Can you give me a head start on it? I would really appreciate if you can help me, since nobody has yet. I cannot seem to find nice people around the internet for this matter. Againg, thanks for any help you can give me and I'm sure we can be friends (if you'd like). C-yaa!
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Posted on: 06-21-2004, 09:21 PM
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