Re: FLASH: OT: Mickey Richardson, Freehand

[John Croteau]

Hi all,


> >I went to one of Macromedia's free 1/2-day seminars recently. "Fast Mickey"

> >was one of the presenters. He advised us that he does *almost all of* his

> >Flash work in FreeHand. (You've done the Flash tutorial in the FreeHand

> >manual, right?) This choice of software on his part may or may not have

> >anything to do with his nickname ...

> Had to defend the man. If you're talking about Mickey Richardson he's great.

> They give the guy three hours to discuss Freehand, Dreamweaver, Fireworks

> and Flash at one of their shows.

Is Mickey in his 'Mickey Live Show' still suggesting that we create

movies with lots of small Scenes with none longer than about 45 frames,

because that is how many frames you can see on the stage at a time?


Flash is the preferred arena to create and compose Flash presentations.

I and many others now draw mostly in Flash and use Freehand,

Illustrator, Corel or other programs to provide occasional things like

specialize shapes and things that can be drawn much easier in a full

blown graphics program or a specialized one (like 3D).


If you are a serious Flasher designing for the Web, you will find

learning how to draw and create in Flash is very helpful and will save a

lot of time and/or bytes in the long run since Flash creations need much

much less optimizing.


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