i've been thinking about doing the majority of my animation in Flash. i still can't tell if its going to make my life easier or frustrate me beyond belief. I was curious as to the types of things that can effectively be done in flash, so i started looking around to give myself hope, and i found TARBOY.
obviously, i am not expecting my first flash animation to be this refined, but it did give me ideas of how i could use similar effects to my own benefit. seeing how they used things like transparencies in a way that is similar to what i wish to accomplish within my animation was relieving and helpful. i also recognized some other effects such as shape tweens and various other tweens and filters (and a tasteful use of gradients, too) which seeing used within a context helped me to fully understand how they can properly be executed.
i don't usually find looking at other artists work helpful for me, but in the case of animation, watching videos and animated shorts has helped me develop my ideas into images which are actually possible for me to realize.
