Flash work

this is a blog review of the recent weeks on working on my flash animation that i've been working on for a client called Steven Bottoms, he's wanting us to design an intractive map over the surronding seclected area.

http://www.freshnewgames.com/whackyourboss.html

The link above is a proffenial example of a flash game site that pritty decesent.

What i did was i did a tracing of the map of the surrounding area and through that i transfered it on to photoshop were i went on with designing my own inturpitation of my map, through photoshop i designed my map how i wanted it to look which was to make it look like a treasure map that way i thought it would make it look more intresting. As well as design my map on my photoshop i had to design my buttons that were asociated with the point of intrest in the surrounding area. each of this buttons will bring up a sheet of infomation that explains about the area. Once i finished my design on photoshop i transfered my images from photoshop to Flash were i started my design on my web-design. I used my map as the background as a base for the layout. On flash i designed what my buttons would do, so when you intract with it my buttons would do something like change size, colour, shape and when you click on it (some) would deliver you to another screen with infomation and hopefully a video. my flash work is in a sort of finished/still working on fases.

When i was working on this flash project i kinda didn't have any original intention on what i wanted, the project kinda develop it self as i went along, so i wouldn't know what to say about my intention on this one.

When i was working on this project i kinda managed my time by just limping it, i don't think i managed my time as effectively as i should of, i may have been slacking in some areas, i think i may of have been juggling too many things at one time.

i struggled with most of the technical side of things, i struggle with the motion tween when i was tryin to make some of my images move and when i was tying to do the coding for my buttons so my buttons would lead the viewer to A to B. i am capable of doing these things its just i would feel more rearshored if i had someone there to ask.

what i found the easiest was the designing part of it, the planning, the designing, drawing, creating the buttons, designing the map, that type of thing.

people like it for how it stuck out, they like the fact that i used the treasure map as the background and they like how my icons look like cartoon pop ups.

I could improve upon my time keeping skills my abilitie to do most of the stuff im struggling with.

I suppose i was to do things differently i would take more of a proffecianal angle look at it.

what i learned from doing this project was how to do programing for my buttons.