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Flash Catalyst
Flash Catalyst (formerly codenamed Thermo) has been around on Adobe Labs for a while now but I’m still meeting lots of people who know nothing of it – if you’ve ever wanted to create interfaces in Photoshop or Illustrator and then add simple functionality without coding (you’d need to hand over the completed project to a Flex developer to get the most out of it) then your day has arrived. Click this link to watch a movie about it and visit the FC page here. There are feeds from the Labs site which you can subscribe to in any feed reader – Firefox would be an excellent choice (if you’re using Apple Mail then it has a built in feed reader) so you can keep up with the latest developemnts at Adobe. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: Flash, General, Illustrator, Photoshop
4T.18 Loopy Background
The last in the current string of animation basics using Flash CS3 builds on the previous exercise by adding a background to our truck animation, in the form of a shape-tweened hill and another motion-tweened scenery movieclip. The concepts you will learn here are simple shape-tweening and creating a cyclic animation using a movie clip designed for that purpose. Registered users of the site can download the source files by using the link below – registration is free and you can register by using the link on the right. Support files are available to registered users of the site only. Please Login or Register to access the link. … Read entire article »
4T.17 Keep On Truckin’
This episode is the second in a three-part string exploring some simple animation in Flash CS3. Following on from before (where we created a symbol and animated it in the timeline) we build a truck and wheels that move on their own timeline, giving us a cyclic animation. … Read entire article »
4T.16 Motion Tween
There are always so many people wanting to learn Flash – I remember thinking years ago that demand would probably “fizzle out” and I couldn’t have been more wrong – I train Flash more and more every month (it’s almost all I’m doing at the moment with very few exceptions). So for the next few episodes, I’m going to be mainly concentrating on the basics of animation in Flash CS3, starting with this simple ‘bouncing ball’ exercise using a straightforward motion tween. If you’re a total newbie to Flash, please download this PDF which will give you some helpful information to get you started. … Read entire article »
InDesign 2 Flash – see for yourself!
Soon you’ll be able to get all Flash-y with your InDesign layouts: Upcoming technology will allow designers to open InDesign layouts directly in Flash with page fidelity maintained. Interactivity, animation and more can be added in Flash to create an engaging reading experience. Check out this copy of InDesign Magazine that has been output to SWF for playback in the Flash player at: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/learning_center/indesign2flash/ … Read entire article »
Filed under: InDesign
