New toys

One of the fun things about my job is that I work in the IT department. That means I get fun software to play with. Of course, that means I have to learn how to use it.

I got Photoshop CS3 recently, and while I've been working with Photoshop for years now, CS3 has some fun new built-in animation capabilities I've just started playing with.

Like this:

Nothing terribly special, I know, but a fun fifteen minutes of playing nonetheless!

Working...

I know I've been lax with the blogging and e-mail replies lately, and I apologize. I suck. I know.

The reason why has pretty much been work. I've been at the new job for a little over three months now and it's getting quite busy. I've got much less time for slacking off and one fewer "weekend" day to catch up since I work five days a week now.

But the new job is good. Not exactly what I expected, but what new job is, huh? :) One of the fun things I'm doing, though, is learning Flash. Not any formal training yet, but today I went through an older version's Dummies book and managed to cobble together my very first flash movie. You can click here to see it (turn off the looping!).

It's far from perfect, but I don't think it's too bad for the first flash thing I've ever done. I've already got some ideas for what I can do next. I'm getting some training on Friday, so I'll see what I can do after that.

So, sorry about the lack of communication, but the job is taking up a lot of my time, one way or another!

Edited to add: I don't know why the movie is acting all weird. Probably something I'll figure out when I get some actual training! Right click on the movie and you'll get a context menu that'll let you play it.