the thing is that Flash basically gives you "dynamic illustrator".
A litany of tools for manipulating images and building animations right in the program, without needing to write a single line of code.
And then, on top of that, you can actually.... write code! And it works quite well!
Flash is one of the funnest programming environment to use for "interactive art". Straightforward things are almost always straightforward, and it's much easier to WYSIWYG your way through a lot of tedium.
A litany of tools for manipulating images and building animations right in the program, without needing to write a single line of code.
And then, on top of that, you can actually.... write code! And it works quite well!
Flash is one of the funnest programming environment to use for "interactive art". Straightforward things are almost always straightforward, and it's much easier to WYSIWYG your way through a lot of tedium.