For our first New Media Art assignment of the semester we were
required to create our own flash art work based around a doomsday theme. My
decision as discussed in the previous blog was limited to a rather basic flash
design due to the lack of time I had to make the artwork. This lack of time was
no fault of out tutors but rather due to the large amount of time I personally
spent learning how to use Adobe Flash, having never really used the software
before.
Consequently my finished artwork product was too basic to allow
for a good mark and only benefited me with a passing grade, which was not
entirely unexpected. My thoughts and attitude toward this assignment were subjective and not entirely positive as I often questioned the usefulness of
learning Flash during a period where its extinction
is entirely plausible due in no small part to the popularity surge in
HTML5 and Apple's dismissal towards using Flash in its products.
However despite these dark thoughts I pressed on with the project
and turned in an artwork which while basic worked successfully, which I was
told was more than could be said of some class member’s projects.
Once I had finally figured out the basics of operating Adobe Flash
it turned out that using the software was not that difficult after all and that
all it really required was a different thought process to the one I had
been utilizing. This new thought process was structured around a better
understanding how layers work and the many different layers one can use
when operating Flash. My struggle with understanding layers was rather odd
considering I had previous experience working with them in Adobe Photoshop.
Anyone who can explain why that is the case to me is more than welcome to do
so.
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