Edition 4: *JohnSu

My friend had a dA account and enjoyed putting stuff up on it. And linking to that stuff.

Free bandwidth and exposure! While there are sites that host images at no cost to the user, dA takes it a step further and lays it out nicely, allowing more information and feedback. The established community and the inflated sense of false importance they gave me may have had something to do with it, too.

It's crazy, isn't it?
Anyhow, I didn't know how long I would be staying on dA and didn't want to choose an alias I would be embarrassed of in the years to come. My real name seemed like something with a longer lifespan than "ChickenHeart2000." There have also been rare instances where acquaintances or their siblings were immediately able to make the connection between me and my dA activity because of this. I am glad I have never had to introduce myself by a silly pseudonym.

The love of animation and the desire to produce my own. I later found it to be an excellent art program, as well. Coding has only made it more attractive.

Hm, I started towards the end of highschool, so it's been about...7, 8 years now? As for a favorite version, it's tough to say. I suppose the latest (CS4) is pretty cool and can do some things the previous ones couldn't, for which I am grateful, but it's also kind of buggy and I don't see Adobe addressing these issues. Well, time will tell. I'm typically most fond of the version just before the latest.

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People saying more than they are qualified to say (i.e. - jumping to conclusions / talking without knowledge). Also when people use "loose" and "lose" interchangeably. It hurts me on a personal level.

It appears to be an arm.

Making computer games! Programming is fun sh*t, yo.

Probably this fellow here:

It's not the best of quality, but I do feel that amongst my work it carries the most meaning, and there is a value to it which I treasure that lies beyond aesthetics.

Music and plagiarism. I mean, imagination.

I choose not to answer this because of the headache that results from choosing (n) favorites of anything.

Play games, make games. Programming is fun sh*t, yo.

Start small. Don't tackle anything huge all at once. Keep your eye on the stuff you liked and make plans to get there eventually, but start off with the simple stuff you can grasp. Learn your basics of motion tweens, shape tweens, movie/graphic symbols, and masking. Then you can move up to more complicated techniques.

A rat. Have you seen the relative size of their testicles?

Does 'Flash' qualify? That software has provided me with way more hours of entertainment than anything else I've ever encountered, and I feel I would be untrue to myself if I chose anything else over it.

Just a general tip to deviants out there: when you make comments or reply to them, keep a cool head and write it as though one day you will be famous and a nosy reporter is going to go snooping through your online records and publish all the stupid things you said while angry. Maybe then you can keep some dignity.

Many thanks to *JohnSu for taking part!