Animation and Effects with Macromedia Flash MX 2004 [With CDROM]

by Jen DeHaan

Hands-on volume from popular author hones in on the process of creating animation and effects with Flash MX 2004. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032130344X
• ISBN13: 9780321303448
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Macromedia Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Overview of Basic Flash

The book might not be perfect but gives a very clear overview of Flash MX 2004 and its animation techniques. I find it very useful for teaching with, as it supplements my class structure. It doesn't over complicate the description and helps a beginner to understand Flash. It doesn't focus only on one aspect of the program but highlights the major elements.

Good reference for animation and effects in Flash MX 2004

In her book, Animation and Effects with Macromedia Flash MX 2004, Jen DeHaan covered the animation effects techniques in Flash MX 2004. Jen started her book with a fast introduction to Flash MX 2004, and then she moved on to the animation techniques in Flash, motion tweening, shape tweening and frame by frame animation. Also, she did not miss to mention the animation using action script. And in the end of the book, she included useful appendixes about publishing SWF, time line effects and keyboard shortcuts. However, this book is a good reference for intermediate designers and developers that want to get a solid background on the animation in Flash MX 2004.

it has good tutorials

I just finished the last chapter and I am happy with what I learned now. I got through each chapter tutorial and I didn't find all those errors that they see, only maybe a small thing or two. I came here cause I was really happy with this book, very surprised to see those comments. I see some things that are confusing in Flash, but I got all the chapters to work well and seem to understand it too. it shows you how to do animations with timeline and with code and you learn a lot. It does show you all the steps and how to do cool things in tutorials which is not too easy but Flash isn't easy. I really look forward to doing my own things now beacuse of the tutorials.