Journal Entry 7

probably the most difficult thing to learn so far would be complex animations primarily because each action has a preaction and making sure they look natural is harder than it sounds.

The biggest helper for flash is to have real motion images to help you reference your animation sequences  to make the animation smoother and more natural looking.

In order to speed up anything you need to have a concrete grasp on what you want the end product to look like and a guide to keep you on track throughout the project. if you dont storyboard all possible events first then you will end up getting side tracked which can slow your workflow down considerably especially if your project starts to take a completely different turn from what you were originally intending.