I did just about all the artwork myself, except for a couple of sprites (more specifically, the smoke and dust sprites, which were imported from a game) and the 3D vehicles and weapons, which were rendered in Swift 3D (although I did add a lot of detail by hand once the models had been imported into Flash).

All the characters and some of the backgrounds were drawn on paper and then imported into Flash, where they were outlined, colored, and shaded. The rest of the backgrounds and other assorted art was drawn directly into Flash.

I did not use Photoshop very much; it was primarily used for the creation of the two blur effects I used in the animation (the focus shift when Sera spots the dead body, and the camera blur during the shot from the wounded soldier's POV).

The only traced bitmap in the movie was the sunset-colored sky used in the intro sequence.

Thanks for the nice review. I finished this game nearly a year ago. I submitted it before but everyone voted low cuz of the size so not many people saw it. So I submitted again. It took me about a year of working on it after school and stuff. I go to art school. The programming is actually really shoddy cuz its my first game attempt. Looking back now I dont even know what a lot of the code I put in does cuz its so haphazardly done. Thats why its buggy in spots. Im actually not good at coding and looking for help to do the sequel cuz some of the stuff I wanna put in Im having trouble coding cuz its too adavanced for my feeble mind. I like drawing more than coding. And episode two is in the works just a lot more work is going into it than this one.