Alright, the first question is about the "digitalartworkstation"s available for creating flash animations. I currently only know about Adobe Flash CSx, I would appreciate it if somebody would provide me a list of reliable flash softwares so that I can browse around and see what I like.
Another thing is that my current understanding of flash animations is that you first create an animation by drawing, say, somebody running, and then if you want to animate them doing a classic slow down and stop, you'd animate that and then code it into the software that when an event occurs (such as you stop holding down the left arrow key), the animation transitions from the first one mentioned to the second one. Am I right? Or if you wanted to do the advanced way, you would animate the runner accelerating, then one full loop of him on his full speed sprint, then the deceleration and stop, and when a person is holding down the left arrow key, the software would play the animation from the beginning and then play just the section of the animation with the runner in a full sprint on repeat until you release the left arrow key to which it'll finish playing the animation.
Third off, I used the word coding, and I'm interested in knowing what coding language would be required to know in order to efficiently create flash animations. In this small wikihow article I read, it said that I would have to code stuff to get it to work the way I wanted to (such as pressing a button triggering an event is coded as
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this.onRelease = function()
{
[what you want the button to do is scripted here]
}
It doesn't look like C++, and I don't know what it is. OR, do most flash animation software stations have a thing that sorta is like
(Object)Button > link to: animation to change scene
Or something. If nobody here knows the answer to any of these questions, feel free to link me towards any forums that you are all aware of that would be helpful to me in this situation. Or people on here that just don't visit like they used to. Or something.
Thanks in advance.