Hi everyone. first of all, stickpage is probably my favorite site. I visit it just about ten times a day. I'm fifteen years old and have loved animating stick people ever since I was a small little booger. Of course back then I used the simplicity of a stack of sticky notes to create my animations instead of flash. However I do have flash pro 8 as of now and would like to learn more about it from someone who fairly experienced. All I know how to do as of now is: using the onion skin, grid, rulers, I know a little about frames and keyframes, and finally, I know how to create a small animation strictly using nothing but keyframe after keyframe redrawing the stick figure every time. I do not know anything about backgrounds or how to make them stay there (I've tried creating my own background and it would not transfer to the next frame). In short, I would love it if someone could tell me where I could get lessons or something. I have no money, no job (I'm a bum who lives on the streets), so I cannot afford college for this hobby of mine lol.

By the way, I look forward to getting to know all of you and would soon like to contribute to stickpage and add my own animations to it. =)