I’ve come to realize something about this onion. It is, as one of my more blunt students put it, “flat.” Hey, this was 12 years ago! These were simple projects in a simpler time – my god, we were still in awe over Shrek, and the incredible wooden faces the humans in that movie had. So for me to actually fake out some 3D with some simple skewing was pretty cool (for me anyway). With time and wisdom, even I wonder why I didn’t even bother with some gradients to give the illusion of depth.

Still, I was still learning to use Flash, and people were still learning to use “Google” as a verb, so it wasn’t like I had all the resources of the world at my grasp. Not yet anyway. Today, things are a little bit better. The vast resources of the web are easier to find, and most is on YouTube, narrated by 13 year olds. This coincidentally, is how I modified my Nerf Maverick, which I’m apparently no longer allowed to use in night class to shoot college students…

Where was I? Oh, the onion. I’m going to rebuild him. Ground up, which I suppose is how onions go normally. Flash apparently can rotate in 3D, but really, it’s rotating a 2D object in all it’s flattened glory in a 3D space. Apparently I’m going to have to find a new way, and that way may be Photoshop, but who knows. I’ll play with that, and maybe post an image of whatever bit of the onion I’m currently constructing.