hahah

maybe this isnt quite as related, but my housemate has a dog, and our other housemate hates picking up poo (like.. more than the average person). so one day, the poo-fearing housemate had to take the dog for a walk, and it pooed in front of a patio restaurant... so she felt obligated to pick it up.

only when she bent towards it to pick it up, she caught a whiff and puke all over it.....

im pretty sure the entire restaurant finished their mea right then and there.

...I don't see what that has to do with bad service at all.

But anyway, I never had any horrible experiences like drinking worms or eating cockroaches.
Although today, I asked for a Zinger at KFC and I asked them to hold back a bit on the mayonnaise. I specifically STRESSED I wanted mayonnaise but not too much (they usually put enough that it actually makes the bread all soggy and crap). So I grabbed it, took it home, and when I opened it, it had no mayonnaise at all, and the lettuce was more sparse than usual.
Slightly annoying but no biggy.

Not quite sure if this is in the right forum, if it isn't, please move it .

Well, I am very used to drawing out my individual frames in Inkscape and exporting them as PNGs. Then I put them together in Sony Vegas. This was always an easy job for me and was pretty easy to do. I could more or less produce a short film in a day if I really tried. However, as development on a certain film went on, I realised that the quality on Youtube and other common internet sites was pretty damn shitty when I uploaded it. My only real solution was to switch to Flash (where I am already seeing a huge quality boost by some tests). According to many people it is also easier to have a whole bunch of independent animations within flash.

So yeah, I just picked this up and I've basically got some of the basics down. However I have a few questions.

1. Most flash movies have multiple sets. By that I mean, one minute you're in the kitchen and the next you are outside. Now, my guess as how to do this is either to use Scenes (I haven't really tried them out yet), use movie clips, or somehow hide all the objects on the current timeline by not keyframing them or something, and them adding in your new layers on the current timeline. What exactly do most people do?

I figure most people use Scene/Movie clips, but how do you make those flow one after the other, and how do you transition between them (IE. Fade and play music).
The last idea seems pretty terrible to me, but again I don't know if people employ it. I figure managing all those layers would become irritating, however, by grouping them into folders and hiding them by not keyframing, might make it easier. Do people usually do this or what?

2. Animating characters... I hear alot of people use Frame by frame, however I'm not sure as why not just to use tweening. Do people usually just make a frame, move it slightly, then copy the frame, paste it, and move it slightly again? Wouldn't this take ages since the average 1 minute animation can be over 3000 frames long? Also, why exactly DON'T people like to use Tweening for character animation(IE. Its advantages and disadvantages).

3. Ok, so lets say I am making my character blink using a movie clip. Obviously, I'll need to change the eye shape sometimes or stop him from blinking. Would I really need to make a symbol for every single eye and "Swap Symbols" on the keyframe? Likewise, when I am lip Syncing, would I need to replace the mouth with an "open mouth" symbol on every word and then paste back? Is this an effective way of doing it?

4.  How the hell do you select an object that is under another. This is why I hate selection tools in Adobe Products...ARGH!

5. Lets say I make a long complex animation and I decide to tweak something in the beginning, for example, add in a walk cycle....would I need to start from scratch or something? How exactly do I move everything to the right so I can add more to the beginning.

6. Is there any way to work-out with seconds/minutes in the timelines instead of measuring in frames?

These are all the questions I have for now. Sorry if they seem a little stupid, but even with all the resources, some of these questions feel unanswered to me. I see alot of techniques for doing things, but I want to know usually what is the best for a semi-longish project. I've pretty much never worked in flash before and I'm really only used to bitmap-based animation.

(Sorry for an grammatical/spelling mistakes. I couldn't review thoroughly because I need to get back to studying for this literature exam)

Thanks again ^_^

No offense but how could any of those have even appeared to be a good idea? They all scream "douchebag" to me.

Yeah, all those hairstyles make the people look like pompous assholes.

To me, you'd look just fine with a shortened version of your current hair to about ear level.

Been to spain, the place is lovely. You should go, it'll be quite memorable.

The problem is, innocent people have gotten it which is really a problem in the justice system itself.

If the crime is truly heinous and the person is unstable and a threat to society then yes, I support it.

Life sentences could be sufficent in most cases, but I believe that there truly are people deserving of their life being taken away.

I guess some spaghetti with mushroom and alfredo sauce, with a side of barbecued, tender steak.

I don't even use Yahoo anymore ever since I got my gmail account. This is pretty uninteresting to me. I also don't see what Microsoft is even trying to gain by buying Yahoo. Yahoo pretty much sucks just as bad so why bother?

Anrgy Black man, I am your Angry black son. You must.

No, I'm just older than 12.

Who the fuck cares about the energy being wasted. So much more gets wasted on other useless things and you choose to bitch about it now? Like, ...what? Also, I doubt that the energy they used for the presentations would have been enough to permanently damage the world, so yeah. Why not start complaining about other wasted things which actually DO hurt the less fortunate?

Also, the joke would be funny...in primary school. This is just immature and any responsible adult wouldn't go around doing this at a huge presentation like CES. There's a difference between doing this there and a TV store.
Trust me, I have a good sense of humour and this isn't funny.

"The extraordinary eight-limbed baby was born in a poverty-stricken region of Bihar, India - on the day devoted to the celebration of the four-armed Hindu deity Vishnu."

She pretty much just owned that Vishnu god. 4 arms, psshhh try 8 limbs!

the way my hair is, its completely impossible for me to do anything to it.

So he asks for a bottle of "YOUR FINEST" 19 times...?
Did he seriously expect that to be cheap?

Congratulations!
Good luck with all of it

When using salvia, what is your state of mind like? Are you able to fight the effects to a degree? Or is it like you're forced to sit and watch whatever the drug induces?

No problem!

Rather than post more of the same theme that everyone has, I decided to post the good theme I have based upon you-know-what. :>

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what is that? Vista or window blinds?

Windows XP Media Centre.
Intel pentium D 2.8 GHZ.
Ram: 512 MB ddr2.
HD: 80 GB.
Graphics; Intel GMA 950
Keyboard: Gay DEll one.
Case: XPS 200.

Need more ram.

Better than MSN Messenger in my opinion. Though they did, for some unknown reason, fuck up the GUI it is still better,IMO, than msn messenger.

That made my eyes water a bit indeed.
Your background is like the complete contrast to your taskbar man!