If you were hired to work for a big Flash production studio

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what specifically things would you need to know how to do in Flash interface designing and Flash actionscripting? What certain tasks would you do the most in a collaborative project?

From my latest solo projest, I’ve learned the following:
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[]A customizable design for a preloader,
[]A dynamic textfield that displays information from an external txt file
[]The principle of breaking up an entire Flash site into external swfs that can load up via frame command or button/movieclip command
[]Creating different shapes of masks and understanding how I can use them in a design, for example creating the popular mask effect of animated a large graphic inside a movie clip without the viewer seeing the edges of the graphic itself.
[]Minimizing the need for importing actual jpgs and gifs into a Flash movie when some images can be easily created in Flash
[]Animated button rollovers can be achieved in two ways: a movieclip embedded in the “Over” state of a button, or the button can have a line of actionscript that “calls” the rollover from a external movie clip
[]Using semi-invisible buttons and layering them on top of text that shouldn’t be broken up (because when you break up text inside of a button it looks distorted)
[]Loading an external jpg into Flash (but not a gif yet)[/LIST]

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I’m not sure if you’re asking for what we would/can do, or whether you are capable, based on your list, I assume the later.

It depends on the company and what they are doing. Generally they will take a look at your previous work and decide if you have the level of skills they require.

From what you have said, you would probably not be good enough for a Flash studio (specializing in flash dev), however you would probably have the skills for web design with flash elements (or even small-med full flash sites).

I think it would be useful to know SQL/XML integration, at least a moderate level of AS(at least being able to decipher complex code) and the ability to design with modularity. Being able to step into any role in a project will give you a great advantage.

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production studio, eh?
you must learn more than that:) get actionscript knowledge and learn how to integrate other applications with flash. xml/mySQL knowledge would be good too. if you want to mae applications, learn OOP too. it would help a lot. just my 2cents:)

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2 cents? -“I said a dollar b *tch!” heheheh - some adam sandler movie- i think :stuck_out_tongue:

couldn’t resist