Flash Production Resources
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Flash : BooksFlash 5 Cartooning
Flash 5 Cartooning is a stunning, full color book that reveals scores of tips and techniques for building great cartoons, regardless of your artistic experience. Everything from cartooning fundamentals to advanced Flash techniques like ActionScripting and selling your work online is covered here, in this unique guide to creating exciting Flash cartoons. Author Mark Clarkson dives deep into the key topics cartooners need to know, with an emphasis on things like interactivity, special visual and audio effects, timing, cartoon physics, and more! A free companion CD-ROM is packed with sample cartoons from the book, additional cartooning material, and product tryouts. Beginner to advanced level guide to working with Flash 5 software to create cartoon animation. Flash 5 Cartooning covers the cartoon production cycle from a Flash artist's standpoint: drawing, writing, storyboarding, animating, and keyframes.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 231
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764535471
Flash 5 Primer
A primer for multimedia developers, offering a guide through every main stage of Flash 5 production: managing large projects, importing images, audio, and video, creating artwork in Flash 5, using the Flash tools, preloading and trimming film size, adding interactivity, writing easy, effective scripts, and creating entire Flash 5 games and computer animation. Here are the crucial issues you face at every stage of Flash production and the solutions and examples you can rely on from the book: Manage large projects; Import images, video, audio, MP3s; Create artwork in Flash; Use the Timeline, Symbol Libraries, and other Flash tools; Add interactivity; Preload and trim file size; Write easy, powerful ActionScripts; Create full-fledged Flash games, and more. John Policano is a freelance graphic designer specializing in Flash and Web design. He recently designed the Web presence for SmithKline Beecham's Oxy campaign, which was covered in Adweek IQ.
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 013031093X
Flash MX Bible
Explaining the uses of Flash MX for web development, this guide provides instructions for producing animation, graphics, and interfaces. Chapters introduce Flash web production, describe the Flash environment, and discuss animation, media files, interactivity, distribution, ActionScript, troubleshooting, and the use of Flash with other applications. A companion CD-ROM contains additional tutorials, ActionsScript components, FLA files, and related shareware. Whether youre a Web development newcomer or a Flash 5 veteran, this book shows you step by step how to make the most of Flash MX and take any Web site to the next level. Packed with examples and illustrations including 16 pages in full color, as well as expert tutorials from Flash pros, it delivers everything from a "Flash in a Flash" Quick Start to brand new coverage of embedded video, accessibility options, components, font applications, ColdFusion, and Pocket PC movies.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 1300
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764536567
Flash MX Design for TV and Video
As more and more animators are discovering, you can also use Flash to produce animations for television efficiently, inexpensively, and without compromising quality. Cowritten by the Flash animator who helped to create the FishBar series that appeared on MTV, this unique guide shows you step by step how to get broadcast quality results with Flash, whether you're a Flash veteran who wants to move into TV or a traditional animator who wants to explore the possibilities of Flash. From broadcast production basics to sound, applied animation techniques, video exporting, and postproduction effects, this book delivers all the know how you need to get your Flash animations on TV including behind-the-scenes interviews with creative professionals working at today's hottest animation studios. Work with television display, composition, cinematography, and sound; export video from flash; Create titles, fades, credits, special effects and much more flash.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 352
- Edition: 1 edition
- ISBN: 0764536818
Flash MX, Remoting, ASP.NET
Macromedia Flash MX has become the professional standard authoring tool for producing high-impact web experiences. Whether you are creating animated logos, web site navigation controls, long-form animations, entire Flash web sites, or web applications, you'll find the power and flexibility of Flash MX ideal for injecting energy into your websites. Flash MX along with its newest companion - Flash Remoting - easily integrates with existing web production workflow, and provides powerful development tools for creating advanced web applications and integrating with other server side applications and Web services. In this article, Pallav Nadhani will look at how Flash Remoting helps to make our lives easier in terms of Flash application development. To work with Flash Remoting, you need to have the following installed on your development machine: Macromedia Flash MX, The Flash Remoting components, Microsoft .NET SDK, Flash Remoting for .NET.
- Cost: $8.00
- Pages: 32
- Edition: e-book (Acrobat Reader)
- ISBN: B0000713V0
Flash Web Design
Flash is the perfect tool for creating immersive, interactive, and animated Web site design, and Flash Web Design teaches you to use it to its full potential. The Essentials section covers the basics of Flash production, illuminating how and why Flash works. The second section is a series of case studies and deconstructions based on projects and problems the author has faced with his clients. Flash Web Design is geared toward professional Web designers and content creators who want to make their site stand out from the typical noise of the Web. This book assumes readers have some experience with Web design and animation, but it does not assume previous work with Flash. Projects include type animation, navigational screens, working with wireframe art, converting vectorized video, working with streaming MP3 audio, using action scripting for interactivity, and going from Freehand sketches to finished Flash movies.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 256
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735708967
Flash Webisode Handbook
With the power of Flash, your Web presentations and information can be fun and interactive. Using streaming animations, or webisodes, you can entertain, educate, and promote to your audience easily and effectively. Written for artists, illustrators, and Web developers, The Flash Webisode Production Handbook, provides useful insights and hands-on techniques that explain how to plan, create, and deploy webisodes with Flash 5. Using cartoon examples, each chapter focuses on a specific part of the Flash animation development process, and provides useful problem-solving techniques for any type of production. With Flash 5 as your authoring tool and the guidelines in this book, you can learn how to produce animated short films, edutainment presentations, games, interactive greeting cards, and more. Actionscripting for games include slider game, jigsaw puzzle, match game, find game, hangman, and a maze flash game. Covers flash preloaders.
- Cost: $39.96
- Pages: 407
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1584500875
Macromedia Flash MX Video
Let's make movies! Interactive movies, totally integrated into your Flash interface! With Macromedia Flash MX you have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of design possibilities. The first section gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways that you can manipulate it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we go through a complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to final output to the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we show you how can apply advanced ActionScript to video, and create a fully object-oriented sound and video playing Flash component that you'll be able to use time and time again. Gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways you can produce such wonderful sites.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 300
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450853
KoolMoves
Flash animation is easy with KoolMoves. It is ideal for creating animated web pages, animated text effects, flash banners, multimedia slide shows, spalsh pages, flying logos, complex navigation systems, interactive games, character animation, and intro pages. It features libraries of text effects templates, web page templates, vector clip art and buttons, action script text effects, transition effects, spin and rotate effects. For advanced users, it even has Flash MX action scripting, dynamic text fields, and bones character animation.
- Cost: $39.09
- Version: 4.1
- Platforms: Win 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
Streaming Flash Educational Videos
Nortel Network's KidzOnline offers a series of entertaining tutorial videos completely free. Join host Gino and his animated side-kick Tweener as they explore the basics of Flash, the history of 2D animation, animation principles, the Flash interface, the toolbox, keyframing, tweening, actionscripting, importing, symbols, using sound, and even special effects. Unlike most online Flash resources, these videos and associated E-learning materials are professional productions due to KidzOnline's 3 million dollar annual budget.
- Cost: Free
- Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
Flash Foundry
Leverage the power of Flash components to slash hours from your production time. A good resource if you need animations for web design, clipart for presentations or games, buttons for interactive demonstrations, or audio loops for Flash. Categories include: components; power components; templates; animations; buttons; clipart images; tutorials; and audio. Themes include: abstract, animals, arrows, background, business, characters, education, food, health, isometric, landscape, occasions, primitives, sci fi, sports, tools, and vehicles.
- Cost: $24.95/mo
