Speaking with Animation

This animation was more time consuming than I have imagined. I want to be an animator when I graduate but going through this assignment, I feel like I do not have what it takes to make a full-length animated film. I did not enjoy this assignment as much as I thought. The reason is probably because I do not have a good experience with using Flash. This semester I took Game Programming, all we did was use ActionScript, and I did not get the hang of it and dropped the class. When the animation assignment was announced that we had to use Flash, I got nervous.

I do not have a good feeling about my animation. If I had more time I would probably make the process go a lot smoother with each branch from the tree growing according to the beat of the background music. I would also make the "newspapers" more realistic and pile them together instead of just having four figures. I had the most trouble writing the action for my button. I did it many time but an error kept showing. I was also frustrated because while making the animation, I kept getting a message saying that I am low on memory and I could not fix it. Overall, I think I'm just not familiar with Flash and get frustrated because I do not understand the program.