Flash 4! Creative Web Animation

by Derek Franklin and Brooks Patton

Macromedia Flash 4 is the first simple-to-use multimedia tool for creating vector-based animations with built-in interactivity. Its three programs in one: a drawing tool, an animation package, and an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201354705
• ISBN13: 9780201354706
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Very Good Starter Book

This book is a better instructional than the books manual. The samples on the cd are excellent and the book it self goes over the basic tools that you will be using in each chapter, so you won't forget. This book is excellent for anyone just starting with flash. But if you already have a creative mind I would sugguest another book.

Outstanding!

As a "newbie" to Macromedia's Flash, I found this book extremely helpful. Not only is this book easy and fun to read, but it also gets you well on your way to creating breath-taking Flash movies. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn how to use Flash.

$$ Worth The Money $$

I found this book to be an excellent resource for using this software the way it was intended to be used. It's a rare thing to find useful documentaion that comes with a product and describes how to use the procuct to it's fullest. Flash 4 is no exception! The software does so much, but if you were to judge it's potential based on the manual that comes with it, you'd think it was half the product that it really is. Also, it's tough to find any ONE third party book that EVRYONE is happy with. Everyone has a different learning style that works for them. Some of us learn by reading, others by seeing, and others by doing. This book is designed to take the reader (or learner) by the hand and walk them through the most fundamental aspects of the product. Lots of us like to look through a table of contents, see the subject we're after, jump right to that page, and expect things to be comprehensible. Not so true with this book. If you're like me, you'll learn best with this book if you start from page 1, have patience, and read through it chapter by chapter. DO THE EXAMPLES, watch the movies on the CD, study them, and apply what you just learned to your own projects. The product is quite complex and does some fantastic things. There's no quick and easy answers to blow you through all that Flash 4 has to offer. But the authors of this book seem to understand this and present it in such a way as though you were taking a course on the subject. No instructor is going to start teaching in week 12, what ought to be taught in week 3. Stick with them, try not to jump ahead, and when you're finished, you'll have an extremely solid grasp of the software (much more so than if you had picked up a "quiky" book). I now have four books on Flash 4 and have read all of them cover to cover (and some more than once). This book, by far, takes the cake!

All you need to know

Flash 4, Creative Web Animation is the most easy to understand and most comprehensive text on the flash 4 program to date. It is referenced by subject content making it easy to learn from or to use as a desktop reference. I strongly recommend this manual. It comes with a cd that really offers a supberb jump start to flash. If you have been having problems understanding tell target and getting the hang of scripting, this book is sure to enlighten you indepth without adding to your confusion. It has a lot of hints for super use. You would have to be extremely advanced in flash 4 not to find something new in the text.