Same, I had been making stickman animations in powerpoint of all things, before a friend mentioned I should try FlashMX.
I even made this terrible thing as my first foray into AS2:
I even made this terrible thing as my first foray into AS2:
My initial career idea was to become an animator but I found forums of senior animators complaining about low wages and long hours and it made me second guess myself about all that and I slowly picked up programming instead, I did get a copy of a great book called "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams, best known for directing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", the book still lives in my library and I hold it in great steem.