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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I use authorware all the time in my current job...just got a huge new assignment and think this may be a good time to get and learn flash. I would like to create some short, cheesy, 2-D animated scenes to insert into my authorware training. I don't have flash, never looked at it. I've seen some really awful flash web sites, but I also believe in its potential for good. I've read the flash tutorials over at gurusnetwork, and I've taken the online 'tour' at macromedia web site. I guess my main questions are: 1) Is flash an appropriate tool for the project(s) I have in mind...short (30 sec or less) simple, 2-D animations, mainly for humor to lighten up the training? 2) What is the learning curve for flash...or at least what I want to do with it? 3) A few of the characters of my proposed animation are already 'drawn' in photoshop, using paths (think 'Southpark' style, 2-D simplicity). How simple / difficult will it be to animate them doing simple things...walking across a room, talking, moving a stack of papers on a desk, etc.? 4) I don't quite understand the whole actionscript thing. Can someone please put this into English? Is all animation done in actionscript...or just some parts? Is it a substitute for the timeline or something extra? I don't quite get it and the macromedia demo tour only confused me more. 5) Any other words of advice or wisdom would be most appreciated. Thank you mobrul Loading...
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