Animating with Flash MX: Professional Creative Animation Techniques

By Alex Michael

If you are a professional animator and want to learn to use the Flash environment as a vehicle for your creative work then this is the book for you. It gets you up to speed fast with the basics of how to use Flash MX to animate, so you can start concentrating on how best to translate your animation skills to this medium. The techniques shown throughout the book build up in skill level quickly, showing you clearly and concisely the most effective way to translate your animations into Flash with the focus remaining on the importance of creative animation techniques. Benefit from Sprite Interactive's wealth of tips and tricks from their wide range of professional Flash animation work and successful training courses. Learn how to apply these techniques to your own work, how to make your characters run in Flash, speed them up and slow them down, make them stumble as they walk, show their anger or fear, make them come to life. Alex Michael, Lead Animator and MD of Sprite Interactive (www.sprite.net), shows you how to achieve all the creative skills of traditional animation using Flash so you can create work for a wide variety of new and innovative platforms, including PocketPCs and interactive TV, as well as video and the web. The free CD includes all the files you need to try everything in the book for yourself, as well as invaluable time and money saving animation processes and tools. Make sure you are at the cutting edge of animation and push your creative skills to the edge, if you want to animate successfully in Flash, buy this book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240519051
• ISBN13: 9780240519050
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Good examples with clear comments - easy to apply

Hi, I do not have time to sit and go through code line by line. I want to plug the functionality straight into my current project. The commenting and standalone nature of the examples means this is ideal for the professional.

This is an amazing book

The first real computer book that looks at animation. It is well written, and delivers information in a very straight-forward way. But most of the front part of the book is very basic stuff. You have to read on to get into the guts of the world of professional animation. If using Flash MX for professional development, this is a must have. If you are just beginning, this is also a great book. The tutorials were easy and results...