Reviews for The Big Fat Tutorial

[pikpikcarrotmon]

One of the best tutorials here!

I've been tinkering around with stuff, but your animation really gives direction to my work. I love your forest effects and will be using them in the overhead views of the city in my upcoming blockbuster "Flash Noir." The "random" faery flitting effects were very interesting and useful. I never understood masks until this tutorial. I didn't even notice how the shine stayed while the gears moved, but it's a great subtle effect that, once again, I will use in my animation. Music, well, it was varied and appropriate. I like the fold-out animation on the buttons as well as the "SECRET OMG!" This is, in my humblest of opinions, the only tutorial worthy of being an actual Daily Feature and possibly Top 50 material. Keep up the work, and who knows--maybe I'll get better and be doing a collab with you guys in the future! <_< >_> <_< >_> ...or mmmaybe not.

Helbereth responds:

There's an object viewer you can access through the credits that lists virtually every object and displays the number of moving parts involved. I really didn't notice how much stuff I'd made for this thing until I started putting that section together.

Tom and Wade, listen to these people! They love me!

Okay I'll go back in my hole now...

[Jordanog]

excellent

you are truly a pro. This is going straight to my favorites and I'm going to use it.

Helbereth responds:

You and like 50 other people... I'm really happy to get responses like this.

[Cheesin]

wow

Great tutorial. I never thought those effects were possible in flash; every time i try to use the gradiant it looks like crap.

I loved how it wasn't just a plain tutorial with just text for people to read and follow, you added in your own touches for some humor and as a way to add life to each lesson.

Everything was nice and clean looking, and all the tutorials went into some great depth to explain the steps of each technique.

The only (VERY minor) problem i had with it was the music loops. They were pretty short, and so varied that there were only one or two that i actually didn't mind listening to. So they got repetitive. Of course i didn't have to listen to them, but i did say this was a very minor complaint.

Overall a top notch tutorial. I hope you come out with another one.

Helbereth responds:

Gradients are sometimes a HUGE pain in the arse. It takes a lot of tweaking to get them to look right. I used to have a gradient ring pulsing on the main menu, but I cut it out just before I released it... I didn't think the menu needed anything else to cause hardware slowdown. I used the same ring in the credits tho... just tinted (you can see it on the sound test too).

I didn't think the music loops were bad... I used to have them playing sometimes... the Zelda one helped me stay focused when I was proofreading it...

[War-Monger]

Wow, this is a big help.

As a starting animator in flash (I have an education in MX from school, which means I can tween and not much else) I found this very helpful. It also held a high amount of personality, which added interest not found in other tutorials (i.e. frame-by-frame crap). So thanks again, and please make more tutorials on harder subjects.

Helbereth responds:

As I learn this stuff myself I'll probably make tutorials just to beat it into my own head (learn by repitition). As they get loaded I'll publish them.

I personally think that nobody should be in the dark about flash. It's so versatile you can do virtually anything, so why should people feel so retarded when they open it up the first time (like I did - and believe me I was TERRIBLE).

[P-51]

Wow this will really help!!

I thank you for making this really helpful tutorial. You are the few who will help budding flash artist, like me, get our ideas out of our head and into the public, for better or for worse. You even went out of your sanity to help. I salute you!!!

Helbereth responds:

And to think - I was nervous about submissing this... for fear of being blammed...