i guess disney movies are pretty motivational...
So, the good people at work have asked me to transfer all of my actionscript (the code used to help animate things in flash) from 2.0 (which I know) to 3.0 (which I absolutely don't know) so we can implement a drop-down style form in a little flash movie for our website at work. So, being the optimistic and sometimes naive little lady that I am, I thought to myself Gee. If I try hard enough, I can do anything. I'll just pick up a good reference book from barnes and noble, look through it, and I should be able to find the answers to my problems. If only it had been that easy. My night started around 9. I got to Lee's Sandwiches in Irvine (because they have free internet and stay open until 2am) thinking Oh! I'll be outta here in no time. Probably by 11:30. Boy was I wrong. So it turns out, Actionscript 3.0 is totally foreign to me. Frank came over to visit me because I haven't seen him in a couple of days, and not only did he not know how to fix my problem either... but he informed me that my process in Flash was completely incorrect. Apparently my movie was around 65KB, which is WAY too big. No one told me this was an issue before. As he went through my layers and reorganized and vectorized things I felt like I was going to throw up. It's kind of the same feeling as watching a TA rip your beloved essay to shreds with that dreaded red pen. My file was bleeding with mistakes, that were unknown to me until that point. I really appreciated Frank's Senior Designer eye and suggestions; he was really helpful and nice about it, but ultimately it just really made me think that we REALLY need an art director at work. We don't have one. I think this is a big problem. I'm only a Junior Designer. Meaning... I'm still in the developing phase, I need someone to help me grow.
So it turns out, Frank explained to me (and Kendra explained to me as well) that it really isn't my job to figure out how to code my Flash... as that is the Coder's or Developer's job (ok, my web coder at work WAS supposed to figure out how to code this stuff, but on friday asked me if i could do the research instead...wtf?) I was essentially attempting to do the job that 3 people do where Frank works... a professional design agency.
So, what am i going to do? Basically, I've decided to transfer everything back to 2.0, and tell my boss that 3.0 is outside my area of expertise. I can learn it, sure. But not in one weekend. I feel a little disappointed in myself for not being able to work my way through it. But I just need to keep on keepin' on, and just keep swimming.
So it turns out, Frank explained to me (and Kendra explained to me as well) that it really isn't my job to figure out how to code my Flash... as that is the Coder's or Developer's job (ok, my web coder at work WAS supposed to figure out how to code this stuff, but on friday asked me if i could do the research instead...wtf?) I was essentially attempting to do the job that 3 people do where Frank works... a professional design agency.
So, what am i going to do? Basically, I've decided to transfer everything back to 2.0, and tell my boss that 3.0 is outside my area of expertise. I can learn it, sure. But not in one weekend. I feel a little disappointed in myself for not being able to work my way through it. But I just need to keep on keepin' on, and just keep swimming.
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