Flash- Player Development

This was my first player design. I used photoshop to make a simple vector of a footballer.
I decided to use bright bold colours, as most good Flash game use bright colours and are much more playable.
Also I used a larger head for the player than its supposed to be, influenced by the Fifa games on Wii, I found the player looked slightly better with the theme of the game.
However when I played with the character in Flash I found that the hands were too wide apart. When I converted it into a movie clip I had to use a rectangle shape and I got a lot of the player that I didn’t want.
So when the ball hit areas around the player it would count as a point when it wasn’t supposed to.









so I found a thinner image and recreated it again in Photoshop. This character works much better and looks like he’s jumping as well.