THAT WAS HUMANE

a more humane solution at least than starving her to death or letting her stay 'alive' for 15 years in an unresponsive vegetative state.

You people are idiots if you think they should have let her live! Her brain was dead! Her heart stopped for 5 hours 13 years ago when her brain was damaged! The brain is rendered inoperable after only 6 minutes of blood loss! After 5 hours the person would be totally braindead! Which is what Terri was! What is the fucking point in leaving such a person alive? There is NO WAY that she could have recovered, unless we somehow put a new brain in.

great flash dude, i love your stuff

moving dots?

Ok i agree that you guys are all great in the art of frame by frame but what's with the moving dots? Come on, it's old, it's pointless, and it isn't funny or interesting in any way!! ITS A DOT, IT MOVES!! ooohh so fucking incredibly skillful you must be to draw a dot!!! Sorry, i may have gotten a bit emotional there, but seriously now, NO MORE STUPID MOVING DOTS!! i don't care if it has interesting-looking lines streaking after it as it moves, or if there is fire or water or hydrochloric acid spraying out of it ITS A FUCKING DOT!!

Several suggestions

this tutorial will not teach anybody how to use flash! it will only tell them what code to put where for it to work, not how to actually do it! also, there are many much easier ways to do what you did without making so many frames! in fact, a large majority of what you did with the killbar and frames in the health bar can all be done with code--no extra frames needed!!

the tutorial does an excellent job explaining the really obvious things (like selecting and pressing F8) but it never talks about the most important part of the whole thing, the code!! People will never be good in flash if they just memmorize a block of code and where to put it for something to work, they must understand the code and know how it works!

wow

One of the very few tutorials around that actually described how the code worked! bravo! Pictures were WAY PIXELATED though, and thats because you resize them... try making the image big, tracing it, and THEN resizing it... that should cut down on the pixelation

Expected more

What about actionscript fading and the _alpha property? I know many people that would benefit from learning that. ALSO: PUT A DAMN SQUARE IN THE HIT FRAME OF YOUR BUTTONS!! that way your buttons wont be so hard to click!