my site

[bkt]

Hi, I joined an "Intro to Flash" class a couple weeks ago. It's only been 2 classes out of 4 so far, but it got me going in Flash a bit. I tried a couple things and now have Flash on my website, so feel free to pop by to check it out. I will improve it as I learn more, thanks.

http://www.trepaning.com

[kkbbcute]

Lol, I'm gonna be really serious, your site sucks, I can tell it's your first try. The video of the guy looking left and right on rollover is unprofessional and corny, and there is no loading bar. Even so, when I click on any of the buttons, it brings me to this page full of terribly (and awfully corny/funny) Photoshopped images. I was like going "What the ****?" when I saw it, it was just randomly hilarious, something I both hated yet liked at the same time, a rare achievement, haha.:p

On a side note, your design could use a whole lot of improving, as it has many of the errors that unseasoned developers make, such as spamming pictures and info in unnatural manners that takes you 10secs for you to figure out what is going on, and a plain color palette/design style.

Hope my input helps!

[cjx3711]

The Person:
I like the idea. I don't see it on alot of sites. It's original, as far as I know. although it gives some laughs, it gets boring after a while

The navigation:
At first glance, there seem to be only two buttons. I only discovered the third one after randoming around. By third one, I mean the email button.

The elements:
There should be some way to turn off the music in the tutorials section. It drives me nuts while I am trying to browse the tutorials. And what's with the spammage of random images? Seriously, remove some of them. at least make your images relevant to the page.

Overall:
This site lacks design. It looks like something I would have done when I first learnt flash and dreamweaver. But since you are just learning it, I will give you credit, it's not bad for a newbie.

[bkt]

Haha, if I cared about critiques, I might be insulted! Not really, but I might!

The tutorials have been downloaded by 100's of thousands of people since they've been online, including by members of the current teams at id Software. The music only went on the tutorial page yesterday, along with the dancing guy at the bottom. The tutorials are free, so I felt a little administrative punishment was overdue. The images next to the tutorials were taken from the page that FileFront made.

There's actually 4 buttons on the first page. The person on the first page is me. It was filmed to test some compositing in After Effects and had no Flash intent at the time. I actually composited it into a scene from "300". A buddy was over a couple days ago and saw the "300" clip. I mentioned the Flash Intro class and he suggested to try doing what was done on the front page by making "the guy" turn when the button was Mouse_Over'ed, etc. I knew there was some way to get Flash to jump to certain frames, and what you see is the result. Personally, I find it entertaining to no end, but I do suffer from mild brain trauma.

Thanks for taking the time to write!

[tango88]

Yup it sucks but it's better than I could do after two classes in Flash. ;)

Hope you keep working at it and remember to go through the tutorials on actionscript.org - they helped me so much when i was first learning Flash

[GFX Complex]

function siteCheck(site:*):String{
if(you.pulled(_myFinger)) return site + "PooPoo";
}
trace(siteCheck(yourSite));

[bkt]

function siteCheck(site:*):String{
if(you.pulled(_myFinger)) return site + "PooPoo";
}
trace(siteCheck(yourSite));


hilarious! :cool:

[GFX Complex]

hilarious! :cool:

If you understood that then there's help for you yet! :p

[bkt]

If you understood that then there's help for you yet! :p

I was thinking along the same lines when I realized it made me chuckle.

[cjx3711]

I'm sorry, but if you don't mind me asking, how did you do ther person looking left and right? I don't mean the actionscript, I mean in after effects, what did you use to get the fuzzy effect? You see, I also love after effects and I am currently trying to learn more about it.

[bkt]

I bought a piece of green material for $8 and draped it off my cymbal stands and lit it (haha) with the kitchen light and a lamp, filmed it, brought it into AE, and keyed out the green as best the program could given the crappy lighting using Keylight. It was made to test following camera motion: http://www.trepaning.com/flash/trapped.avi

The extra crap effects are from then converting the MOV to an FLV and then compositing it with Flash.