Now I have 30 days to get Flash to work. Hopefully I can finish my animation before my trial period runs out. :( I've decided my first animation is going to be a re-hash of little red riding hood. Its been overdone to be sure, but since I havn't spent a lot of time animating, I thought it would be a fun silly project to get my feet wet. I have many projects that I want to work on, but I need to get my animation skills better before trying to do something on those kinds of scales.

Currently I'm working on just backgrounds as I think they will be the easiest, but am unsure about how to do the process. I'm, not sure if I want my characters animated in the library and the brought to the stage, or if I should animated different things on different layers on my stage to begin with. I feel like the stage option is the easiest to follow through with. On this first piece I'm going to be focused on three things.

1. The first being atmosphere. I want to make sure my world is big and real enough for my viewers to feel a part of it.
2. Lighting. though mainly because this adds to the realism of number 1.
3. Smoothest animation possible. I figure anyone can probably animate stick figures, so I'm going to work on making it as smooth as possible.

Being a noobie I may only accomplish one of these things, but I'm ok with that.