Well, not much accomplished today. Mowed the lawn, exercised, worked at the job. For the second day in a row, no alcohol despite watching an episode of "Babylon 5" dealing with Garibaldi's drinking. For some reason, when I see other people drinking in films and television, it makes me thirsty for some. But I resisted.
Anyway, so I did no work on any of the projects in the current dock. Which I guess I should list, shouldn't I?
1 - I want to create a short Flash animation. I have a soundtrack of around 90 seconds, and I want some skulls to float into a landscape and yell (electronically altered cat voice). What I've done so far is place the soundtrack on the Flash stage, and I have a cloudscape moving in the background. In order to complete the animation, I'll need to make progress on project two--
2 - Learn Adobe Flash. The program mostly resists my attempts to "get good" at it, mostly because information on the animation process is not logical. The drawing process in Flash is easy to understand, but it's also not very good. Which brings me to project three -
3 - Learn Adobe PhotoShop. I've used other, easier graphics programs but this is the industry standard. Time to get with the program. I can draw elements in this and import them into Flash. That requires knowing how to draw the things I want. I've drawn a factory-type dome for the background, but I'd like to draw it better.
I've read two "Dummies" books on Flash and PhotoShop, and they help somewhat. I just have to be able to plunge in and tear things around until I understand what's happening.
That's it for today.
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