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Flash
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Flash has already grabbed everyone's attention as the hot thing
in Web animation, and it promises to be an increasingly serious
tool in Web development. This section will cover Flash, including
articles, tutorials, links and resources.
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Flash Articles and Tutorials
The Flash Animator
New Riders
August 28, 2002
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Whether you want to splatter paint with your Wacom tablet or draw line art with a mouse, Flash offers
an array of choices. This excerpt from The Flash Animator focuses on the various tools artists can
use to draw in Flash.
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Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design - Part 3
New Riders
May 22, 2002
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Skip Intro is designed to help educate the Flash community specifically and designers/programmers at large that usability isn't a dirty word. It doesn't mean making boring pedestrian web sites, and it doesn't mean abandoning Flash. This weeks installment covers Testing Your Work and Making the Component. From New Riders Publishing.
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Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design - Part 2
New Riders
May 15, 2002
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Skip Intro is designed to help educate the Flash community specifically and designers/programmers at large that usability isn't a dirty word. It doesn't mean making boring pedestrian web sites, and it doesn't mean abandoning Flash. Skip Intro guides designers through understanding the site requirements and their intended users and then starts them down the road of developing for those users, by taking them step-by-step through design scenerios, rather than providing strict rules of usability.
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Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design
New Riders
May 8, 2002
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You know you need good user interface design. You've heard that 99% of Flash is bad. You want to
start creating Flash sites with a good UI, but you just dont know where to start. If so then this
is the book you've been looking for.
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Flash 5 Tutorial: Part 7
Shawn Ryder
March 25, 2002
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This month we're going to walk you through the process of using
cookies and Flash to create an online notepad feature that will
allow users to key in notes to themselves, have them stored on
their local system and when they return have the same notes
reappear for them to see and edit.
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Flash 5 Tutorial: Part 6
Shawn Ryder
January 28, 2002
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This month we're going to take a look at the creation of a custom
cursor, and how to import text files into a Flash file. We'll
also talk about using some basic HTML commands with these text
files, to allow for links and various text features, such as bold
and italic, to be created.
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Flash 5 Tutorial: Part 5
Shawn Ryder
November 27, 2001
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In this fifth installment we will begin to use some of the skills
we have learned in the previous Flash tutorials. We will examine
some of the techniques used for creating games and interactive
Web sites using ActionScript with Flash.
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Flash 5 Tutorial: Part 4
Shawn Ryder
October 29, 2001
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In this month's installment, Shawn investigates the use of
ActionScript in the Flash application. He offers some ideas on
what it can be used for, the fun things that can be created, and
an idea of what the future is going to be like with the scripting
language.
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Macromedia Flash 5 Developer's Guide: Part 4
McGraw-Hill
September 7, 2001
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The final installment covers a different approach to Amorphium
Pro. This up-to-date definitive guide offers information on
extending Flash 5 into sophisticated, online media development.
This is the fourth and final installment of Chapter 20.
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Flash 5 Tutorial: Part 3
Shawn Ryder
September 4, 2001
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From here to there.... in a flash! Learn the vagaries of 'tweening'
in this third Flash tutorial from Shawn Ryder!
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Macromedia Flash 5 Developer's Guide: Part 3
McGraw-Hill
August 24, 2001
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This week's excerpt covers animation in Swift 3D and primitive
character animation. This up-to-date definitive guide offers
information on extending Flash 5 into sophisticated, online media
development. This is the third installment of Chapter 20.
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Macromedia Flash 5 Developer's Guide: Part 2
McGraw-Hill
August 17, 2001
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This week's excerpt covers modeling basics using Strata and the
Bézier surface. This up-to-date definitive guide offers
information on extending Flash 5 into sophisticated, online media
development. This is the second installment of Chapter 20.
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Flash 5 Tutorial: Part 2
Shawn Ryder
August 10, 2001
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This second installment discusses how to import and use sounds
inside Flash files as well as the manipulation of objects.
Flash 5 is the latest version and includes numerous upgrades and
additions over previous versions.
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Macromedia Flash 5 Developer's Guide: Part 1
McGraw-Hill
August 6, 2001
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This up-to-date definitive guide offers information on extending
Flash 5 into sophisticated, online media development. This is the
first installment of Chapter 20. This week's excerpt covers an
overview of Flash, an introduction to 3D using strata,
transformation tools, and a project to build a spaceship.
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Flash 5 Tutorial: Part 1
Shawn Ryder
July 30, 2001
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Flash 5 is the latest version and includes numerous upgrades and
additions over previous versions. This is the first in a series
of articles to help users learn how to use this version.
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3Dino - Another Approach to Flash 3D
PS Woods
November 17, 2000
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By this point in Web history, surfers expect to see live-motion,
video-quality real-time rendering. In Flash. That loads in 10
seconds or less. On version 3 browsers. Believe it or not, we can
do it...
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Bride of Flashenstein
PS Woods
July 5, 2000
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Flash developers are already doing lots of cool
stuff with Flash/JavaScript, but you have to do a little digging to get
started. Well, here is a good place to break ground...
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0 to 60 in Flash
PSWoods
February 21, 2000
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Flash has already grabbed everyone's attention as the hot thing in
Web animation, and it promises to be an increasingly serious tool in
Web development. Flash by itself can already be used in concert with
JavaScript and CGI. Chances are that Flash will integrate well with
your current area of expertise. In addition, tools for extending Flash
are coming out the woodwork - from industrial strength middleware to
cutesy novelties.
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Inserting Flash Movies in DreamWeaver
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Before the introduction of Flash 4.0 -- the latest version of
Macromedia's vector-based animation program for the Web -- you
had to use a separate application in order to create the HTML
code necessary to deliver functioning Flash movies for the Web.
This application was called Aftershock and it generated all the
code needed. With the introduction of Flash 4.0, Aftershock is no
longer needed -- inserting the appropriate code is done natively
in Flash. This is somewhat of a challenge for designers and
developers, especially if they are unfamiliar with Flash or do
not use the application.
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Serving Up Web-Friendly Animations: In a Flash
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You've undoubtedly heard of Macromedia's Director and have oohed
and ahhed over Shockwave movies on the Web after, of course, they
finally finished downloading. Flash, however, may be less
familiar. The May release of Macromedia Flash 2, formerly
FutureSplash, marked a new phase in Web animation -- one that
streams.
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Flash 4 For Beginners
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This small cluster of articles takes you through the creation of
a simple animation and is aimed at people very new to Flash. When
you've finished reading, you'll have a basic understanding of how
the program works and how to use its principal functions. You'll
also be able to test your movie and mount it on a Web page.
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Tricks & Data, Flash Yin & Yang
PSWoods
April 17, 2000
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Scenario: You are a Web developer. You just learned Flash. You are
making mouse trails and twirling text galore, all with a hip-hop (or
techno) loop in the background. You even made a Flash movie for
your last client (or your company, depending on employment status),
who just happened to want mouse trails and twirling text with hip-hop
(or techno) in the background. And you can at least install a simple
CGI script. (There will be some discussion of JavaScript, but it is not
necessary to be able to hand-code JS for this tutorial. Don't put off
learning it, though)!
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Flash Resource Sites
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Flashkit
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"I [the original founder of Flashkit] built it to create a one
stop raw materials centre for flash creations, after having spent
hours surfing for sounds, images and ideas, it seemed to me a
great idea to collate and collect as much as I could into one
place!"
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Virtual-FX
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Featuring tutorials, articles, messageboards, games, sound bytes
and more for the aspiring Flash developer.
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Music4Flash
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"Welcome to Music4Flash.com! What makes us the most popular
soundsource for Flash-developers? Royalty-Free Sounds, One-step
integration, Customer Service, Original & Catchy Music,
Online Delivery and New Products."
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SwishZone
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"See how you can make text explode, wave, move, drop, rise,
weave, distort & much much more...Download the latest version and
discover how easy it is to create Flash™ text animation effects."
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FlashPlanet
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Flash tutorials, an .FLA library, sounds and clipart, Flash
resource links, a Flash resource engine, script generator,
articles and more.
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