Foundation Flash 5 gives you all the skills you need to get started in the latest version of Flash. It takes you from your first drawing and animation project in Chapter 1, through to a strong foundation for exploring the sophisticated ActionScripting capabilities now built into Flash 5. It is a thorough and practical, tutorial led book, where each chapter helps to build up a case study project- reinforcing what you've learnt in that section and how it can be applied in real design projects. By the end of the book you'll have built a working, Flash-rich website, and you'll have the skills to develop and modify your own Flash 5 effects. Professional level design with Flash has taken a quantum step up with Flash 5. Foundation Flash 5 provides you with all the climbing gear you need for the steeper learning curve. You'll break a sweat. But when you get there the view from the top is really worth the effort!
This book guides you through the fundamentals of the Flash 5 interface. It shows you how to create, manipulate and arrange your movie content and then how to publish your movie. Along the way it covers the basics of ActionScripting, and then in Part 3 moves onto more sophisticated ActionScripting and the principles of good site design.
He co-authored Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004 (friends of ED, ISBN: 1-59059-308-1) and PHP Web Development with Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Apress, ISBN: 1-59059-350-2). David was also the technical reviewer for the highly successful second ...
What you’ll learnWho this book is for Professional designers who want an intuitive software package capable of integrating dynamic content into their site Designers who want to enhance the productivity of their site by integrating it with ...
If you can keep up with him, you'll want to chase the flapping longfellows of John Kricfalusi (http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/), creator of the “The Ren & Stimpy Show” and pioneer of the Flash-animated cartoon series. A full decade ago, ...
Click OK, and then from the Render Queue window, open the Output Module Settings window shown in Figure 4-21. 5. Set your file format to QuickTime Movie, and under Format Options, set your Compression option to Animation and the Quality ...
... 74 date functions, 72 Escape command, 75, 164,446 ExtendBacklightDuration command, 463 Flash Lite and, ... 463 time functions, 73 Unescape command, 75, 447 full-screen vs. standard mode, 148 FullScreen command, 70, 148, 447 Fun ...
But if you want to compete against the best animators, whether in Flash or in traditional animation, you will be competing ... and it's completely obvious when you watch most Flash cartoons that you are watching tricks, not animation.
This book is recommended for web designers who realize that coding is the way ahead at the top end of the industry, Flash movie creators who need urgently to get deeper into interactivity, and those who are competent in ActionScript but ...
With the release of iMovie a few years back, Apple re-established its predominance as a producer of easy-to-use (and even ... Double-click the iMovie icon and you will be presented with the interface shown in Figure 2-15.
... and how to store and reuse movie content elements in the Library: Graphic symbols contain simple moving content and are the cornerstone of cartoon animation in Flash. Button symbols are the easiest method to achieve interactivity.
This is the only book on the market that focuses on generic, transferable skills that are taught using a case study that'll really drive the learning home. If you want to really understand this subject, then this is the book for you.