Occasional rough FLAs

Just the past few days I've been thinking about releasing the FLAs for some of these daily movies. The only sticking point is the fear that releasing them would enable content thieves to publish them on their own site.. so I figure that releasing a stripped-down rough version of the FLA (i.e. before I do all the cleaning up, colouring and effects animation) would be best. That way, people can download and learn from them.. and it's better learning from rough work anyway.

When working on simple Flash movies such as these, I usually overwrite the rough FLA as I go, so that there's just one clean file at the end. But for the past two or three movies I've been saving the rough separate so that I can release them here.

I won't be releasing the roughs for every single animotd movie, but when I do, they'll be released on the day that same animotd is released. So, as the 'sneeze' clip was released today, you can download the "sneeze" rough FLA. Just click the image below:



I've saved this one as Flash MX 2004, so you don't need to have the very latest Flash to open the file.

After stripping everything out of it (audio, etc) and leaving just the rough animation, you'll see there's not much to this one.. it's just a few drawings. Hopefully though, as time goes on and these movies get more complex (and they do!), you'll see more drawings, perhaps a rough background or two and maybe some rough effects animation.

If you'd like to work over the file yourself, feel free to clean up the drawings, play with the timing and adjust the frame-rate. Even throw in a completely different character in there if you like.. whatever you do, I'd love to see it, so upload to some webspace and post a link on the Brackenwood Forum.