flash hate again
Oct. 2nd, 2006 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashDowngraded to MX04. Started working on this piece again. Was starting to get into it when all of a sudden it wedged up, started giving the spinning rainbow cursor that means it's swapping insanely, and crashed.
Threw my Wacom stylus down, had a worried moment when I thought this broke it inside. Luckily it didn't.
Cried and wailed and bit a pillow hard. Stomped around the house ranting and screaming and hitting the walls.
That's it. That's fucking it. I am sick, sick, sick of this fucking piece of shit program Flash. It does not work for animation. It has never worked for animation. There is a complicated body of lore out there on how to work around its many bugs, that only grows larger with every release.
Drifting into a career based on using this piece of garbage has completely ruined animation for me. I love animation. I love creating the illusion of life, I love making a scene work just right with the sound. Refining a performance is a joy and a delight for me. It is one of the things I was born for doing. But this goddamn fucking piece of crashy, glitchy, frustrating shit has sucked every iota of joy out of the process. When you have source files of more than about 1 meg, it crashes all the goddamn time. It hangs up at random moments, it refuses to respond properly to its inputs, it takes your hard work and throws it away.
I would have been doing this piece in Toon Boom, if not for the fact that the only copy of the music file I had was stuck in the SWF file. Can't get it out without major painful gyrations. It'd be easier to work in there, I thought. NOPE.
Most of the production with Flash is done on Windows machines. It's a little more reliable on those. I don't want to constantly borrow my boyfriends' machines to use this piece of trash; I don't want to get a Windows machine for the sole purpose of mollycoddling this slapdash piece of bad code.
I want out.
In 2003, I had some freelance work using Flash MX for the first time. Its sluggishness and horrible interface drove me crazy. I got very little work done with it. I was horribly late because I spazzed on it for a couple of weeks until I exported the files I had to work with to Flash 5 and used those. I realized that the entire industry was stupidly shifting to MX, for reasons nobody could really ever articulate. This was a major factor in my not pursuing more Flash jobs. This fucking program is one of the major reasons I left LA: I knew that any fucking job I'd find would require me to waste half of every day struggling with this piece of trash.
It's 2006. I'm still fucking using it. Because that's what my goddamn resume is full of. Because I was one of the early people to master it for animation, back before it turned into an overblown, glitchy piece of garbage.
I am fucking done with this fucking sorry excuse for a tool. I thought I'd found a way to make it safe and usable, it turned around and bit me again.
I want to delete it. I want to throw away every file I have related to it. I want to erase this source of stress and frustration from my life. Completely.
It's the only goddamn work I know how to find.
Threw my Wacom stylus down, had a worried moment when I thought this broke it inside. Luckily it didn't.
Cried and wailed and bit a pillow hard. Stomped around the house ranting and screaming and hitting the walls.
That's it. That's fucking it. I am sick, sick, sick of this fucking piece of shit program Flash. It does not work for animation. It has never worked for animation. There is a complicated body of lore out there on how to work around its many bugs, that only grows larger with every release.
Drifting into a career based on using this piece of garbage has completely ruined animation for me. I love animation. I love creating the illusion of life, I love making a scene work just right with the sound. Refining a performance is a joy and a delight for me. It is one of the things I was born for doing. But this goddamn fucking piece of crashy, glitchy, frustrating shit has sucked every iota of joy out of the process. When you have source files of more than about 1 meg, it crashes all the goddamn time. It hangs up at random moments, it refuses to respond properly to its inputs, it takes your hard work and throws it away.
I would have been doing this piece in Toon Boom, if not for the fact that the only copy of the music file I had was stuck in the SWF file. Can't get it out without major painful gyrations. It'd be easier to work in there, I thought. NOPE.
Most of the production with Flash is done on Windows machines. It's a little more reliable on those. I don't want to constantly borrow my boyfriends' machines to use this piece of trash; I don't want to get a Windows machine for the sole purpose of mollycoddling this slapdash piece of bad code.
I want out.
In 2003, I had some freelance work using Flash MX for the first time. Its sluggishness and horrible interface drove me crazy. I got very little work done with it. I was horribly late because I spazzed on it for a couple of weeks until I exported the files I had to work with to Flash 5 and used those. I realized that the entire industry was stupidly shifting to MX, for reasons nobody could really ever articulate. This was a major factor in my not pursuing more Flash jobs. This fucking program is one of the major reasons I left LA: I knew that any fucking job I'd find would require me to waste half of every day struggling with this piece of trash.
It's 2006. I'm still fucking using it. Because that's what my goddamn resume is full of. Because I was one of the early people to master it for animation, back before it turned into an overblown, glitchy piece of garbage.
I am fucking done with this fucking sorry excuse for a tool. I thought I'd found a way to make it safe and usable, it turned around and bit me again.
I want to delete it. I want to throw away every file I have related to it. I want to erase this source of stress and frustration from my life. Completely.
It's the only goddamn work I know how to find.