Loading external assets

Question

Hi,
I have a movieclip clip that plays when the movie starts, the movieclip is a visual assets that show's that the application is loading
some information but it's not showing any loading progress, just playing while the assets are loaded.
I created a for loop that will load the assets using a simple loader, and then when the object is loaded the application push the object to an array.
Problem is that when the loading starts all the animation that i have on screen stops until the loading is finished.
The whole point is that the animation will play while it's loading. any one know if there's a way to solve this problem ?

Answer 1

Well as i said it's not really a preloader.
Just a movieclip that plays when the loading starts.
below is the code:
var visualLoader:mcLoader = new mcLoader();
// VISUAL LOADER SETTINGS
visualLoader.stop();
visualLoader.alpha = 0;
visualLoader.x = stage.stageWidth / 2 - visualLoader.width / 2;
visualLoader.y = stage.stageHeight / 2 - visualLoader.height / 2;
visualLoader.scaleX = .6;
visualLoader.scaleY = .6;
addChild(visualLoader);
TweenLite.to(visualLoader, 2, {alpha:1, onComplete: loadThumbs});
// LOAD ALL THUMB IMAGES AND PLACE IN THUMBS ARRAY
function loadThumbs(){
    visualLoader.play();
    for(var i=0;i<totalImages; i++){ // START LOADING BITMAPS