Flash 4! Creative Web Animation

Brooks Patton, Derek Franklin

428 pages, parution le 15/12/1999

Ajouter à une liste

Indisponible

Résumé

Derek Franklin and Brooks Patton, two professional multimedia developers, struggled through many sleepless nights mastering Flash, the popular multimedia tool for creating interactive vector-based animations. Once they succeeded, they resolved that their peers shouldn't have to "suffer the same agony" they had, so they created interactive Flash tutorials (made with Flash) for their Web site. When demand for their advice exceeded the time they could take from running their business, they decided to write a book. The result is Flash 4! Creative Web Animation, which covers everything from basic drawing to authoring complex interactions.

This third edition is completely rewritten and takes a fresh approach. Interactive tutorials form the heart of the book and make a worthwhile companion to the explanations of the application's features and tools. The tutorials teach readers how to transform that understanding into powerful multimedia skills. The QuickTime video tutorials come on a CD-ROM, which also contains associated source files that readers can experiment with and a trial version of Flash 4, as well as other Macromedia product demos. By following the many tips, tricks, warnings, and other aids found in the book and CD-ROM, readers will learn to:

Create vector illustrations and modify images created in other drawing programs
Make Web sites come alive with Flash animations, buttons, and actions
Format text and optimize sound for maximum impact
Plan, test, and publish their creations
Optimize Flash movies for faster downloading and smoother playback

Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Flash?
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Drawing
Chapter 4: Text
Chapter 5: Sound
Chapter 6: Bitmaps
Chapter 7: Symbols
Chapter 8: The Library
Chapter 9: Layers
Chapter 10: Animation
Chapter 11: Interactivity
Chapter 12: Testing
Chapter 13: Publishing Your Work
Chapter 14: Planning Your Project
Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix B: Flash Resources
Index

L'auteur - Brooks Patton

Brooks Patton

is the president and CEO of Crazy Raven Productions Inc., a leading multimedia and Web development firm with offices in Anchorage, Alaska, Indianapolis, and Dallas. With more than a decade of experience in network engineering, Brooks founded Crazy Raven Productions four years ago to focus on Web technologies and multimedia. On the rare occassions that Brooks is allowed out of his office, he enjoys mountain biking, rock climbing, and being somewhere warm.

L'auteur - Derek Franklin

Derek Franklin is director of www.derekfranklin.com a resource dedicated to helping developers worldwide get the most from Macromedia Flash. He's been involved in Web design since 1995, having served as multimedia director for a nationally recognized media company, while creating Macromedia Flash instructional materials in his spare time. Derek has won numerous design awards for his work, and his teaching materials have been translated into nine languages. He and his family live in Bloomington, Indiana.