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Mushroom intro. by *Sophabelle:iconSophabelle:


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Submitted: February 5, 2007
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This was supposed to be an introduction to a portfolio website for my Interactive Media class; but I got a bit carried away!

The design had to feature my name (which is spelt out in the negative space between the mushrooms and the fireflies!) I did put this in intros, but I guess its not yet really, as there's no buttons or anything.

There's a lot room for improvement (the gap inbetween the S and the O, and the scraggy edges of the mushrooms - both of which bother me greatly!) But as this was my first ever Flash, I don't consider it TOO hideous!

It will take a few seconds to start... This is before I understood load bars!

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`maxwell-heza:iconmaxwell-heza: Feb 6, 2007, 6:26:34 AM
That's really awesome, you're gonna have to teach me how to use flash properly :XD:

It could probably go faster though, with less of a gap between the mushrooms moving and fireflies arriving. At the moment it takes about 45 seconds to play through where as it should probably take 20 tops.

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`alyn "I'm adjacently collaborative with the amative shanks of elbowage"
~Pinkcatt on religion "I say, the books are all there, pick whichever one you want and keep the noise down in the Library, I'm trying to sleep"
*Sophabelle:iconSophabelle: Feb 7, 2007, 4:01:06 AM
Thanks dude!

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-Soppy. x
*Sophabelle:iconSophabelle: Feb 7, 2007, 4:08:49 AM
Hey you! Thanks for commenting! I'm not so good with flash... this took far longer than it should! Still, I'm proud theres some actionscript in there, (the b*stard language!) makes it seem like I know what I'm doing!
I was trying to get the movement to sync up with the music, and for it to be all mellow and chilled, but I see what you mean about it just being a bit lengthy and slow... and that gap bugs me now!! Maybe I should have used different music?
See you spoon!

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-Soppy. x
`maxwell-heza:iconmaxwell-heza: Feb 7, 2007, 5:49:10 AM
Maybe, it's just that if it's going to be on a website, you want it to say what it needs to say quickly because a lot of people will pass it over if it's too long and all it is is a title.
As it is, fitting to music I'm sure it's fine, but as an introduction to a portfolio site I get the feeling that people will have skipped to the actual gallery of work before it's even finished its animation.

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`alyn "I'm adjacently collaborative with the amative shanks of elbowage"
~Pinkcatt on religion "I say, the books are all there, pick whichever one you want and keep the noise down in the Library, I'm trying to sleep"
!Bleu-Dream:iconBleu-Dream: Jul 20, 2007, 2:11:28 PM
This is very nice. I can't do flash to save my life, so it's nice see simple flash animations. My only critique would be that there is one mushroom in which the bottom looks a bit weird, almost as if it were a bad scissor cutting. Still Very Nice...
*Sophabelle:iconSophabelle: Aug 13, 2007, 1:31:59 PM
Yeah, its cause they're still bitmaps, and the edges are all scraggley! I can't do vectors!! *Mournful wail!*
Thankyou very much for commenting - I'm glad you like it despite the ikky edges! Hope you're happy and well. Love!

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-Soppy. x
~schism-faust:iconschism-faust: Aug 28, 2007, 2:45:35 PM
I'm pretty amazed at how fluid it all is.
*Sophabelle:iconSophabelle: Sep 1, 2007, 7:43:08 AM
Thankyou! I'm pretty amazed you think it's fluid! ...Maybe I'm just concentrating on those jagged edges all the time now!

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-Soppy. x
~schism-faust:iconschism-faust: Sep 1, 2007, 8:40:30 AM
The jagged edges aren't really prominent at all, unless one were purposely to go and look for shortcomings. In which case you can totally pull it off as pixel art.