Newbie flash help
I'm looking to make a flash banner very similar to the one shown on here [url]http://www.omdesign.co.uk/[/url]
I'm really stuck on what techniques i need to use.
any advice would be great
Just about all of what's involved in it is simply looping timeline animation. I thought those birds in the distance that move more like bugs, stopping and moving, might be randomly generated, but a with a longer look it appears to be a repeating pattern.
That cutout look could be exactly that, a white rectangle with a torn looking shape cut out of it that covers the whole stage, turned into a movieclip, and a drop shadow effect added to it.
So what particular aspects are you stuck on?
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