Fiddling with Flash

So... Today was kategod s birthday. Dunno. We aren't really very good friends or anything. I think sixs months ago we probably had each other /gagged. Though I think that sort of thing is mostly because of me. Half my friends list is people I used to be a screaming bitch to and only later learned that I was the screaming bitch and they weren't really such bad people.

Anyhow. She's a dragon and I got struck with this silly idea of a dragon lighting candles on a birthday cake rather than blowing them out. So I decided I'd try animating it just for fun. *shudder* I used flash as it was actually made to be used. As a cut-out art animation tool. I broke up the character into pieces like you would to do cut-out animation, then reassembled the layers in the right order. All in all it was fun but the results are a little stiff. It can't compare to drawing each frame. Very fast type of animation though. I think I only spent about 3 or 4 hours on this total including several corrections and the result looks pretty clean and is small to load. All in all a worthwhile experiment. :)

Anyhow. Happy B-Day Kate. Hope ya like it!

EDIT:

Oh yeah! URL to animation!