Flash and XML: A Developer's Guide

Flash and XML shows designers and developers how to integrate these powerful technologies and create dynamic web sites. With this thoroughly readable guide you take Flash to the next level, interfacing ActionScript with XML. Empower your Flash projects with dynamic content, backend databases, server-based applications, peer-to-peer, and more. Flash and XML is a tutorial that brings you up to speed on both technologies, offering clear and concise explanations. In addition, this book presents a number of important web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, and sockets. It shows how to work with these technologies to create n-tier, interactive systems that access the full resources of the Internet.

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Flash 5 Cartooning

Flash 5 Cartooning (with CD-ROM) by Mark Clarkson_0764535471

Flash 5 Cartooning is a stunning, full color book that reveals scores of tips and techniques for building great cartoons, regardless of your artistic experience. Everything from cartooning fundamentals to advanced Flash techniques like ActionScripting and selling your work online is covered here, in this unique guide to creating exciting Flash cartoons. Author Mark Clarkson dives deep into the key topics cartooners need to know, with an emphasis on things like interactivity, special visual and audio effects, timing (it's critical to a good joke, you know), cartoon physics, and more! A free companion CD-ROM is packed with sample cartoons from the book, additional cartooning material, and product tryouts.Finally someone has written a book on animating in Flash. It's a wonder there aren't more like it. Flash 5 Cartooning covers the cartoon production cycle from a Flash artist's standpoint--drawing, writing, storyboarding, animating, and keyframes. Sounds like a book on traditional animation, doesn't it? But everything is examined from a Flash perspective. When the book talks about drawing, it means drawing with a tablet. When it talks on keyframes and in-betweens, it is within Flash and not on paper that these issues are covered.

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Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers

Flash is one of the most engaging and innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of pretty much anything from simple slideshows, animated banners and icons and cartoons, to Rich Internet Applications, Interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, except that now, it just got better. In 2007, Adobe released Flash CS3, which boasts a whole host of new features, including fully customizable workspace, full ActionScript 3.0 support, a PSD importer, a tween-to-code animation converter, and much more. And this book is all you'll need to learn Flash CS3 from the ground up, or learn about all these new features, if you already have previous Flash experience—Flash experts Tom Green and David Stiller take you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS3, with the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects.* Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step by step tutorials.* Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design.* Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and David Stiller.

Publisher: friends of EDLanguage: englishISBN: 159059861XPaperback: 599 pagesData: July 24, 2007Format: PDF

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Flash CS3 For Dummies by Ellen Finkelstein

Pack pizzazz into your Web sites with Flash!Start with simple animation, or create whole pages in FlashThe newest version of Flash offers all sorts of cool options for designing Web sites that stand out from the crowd, and this handy guide makes it easy. Enhance your site with animated graphics, boxes, or buttons; morph shapes; create text with exotically changing colors; add sound or video; and watch visitors flock to your site!

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How to Cheat in Flash CS3

If you have ever stared at a blank stage wondering how to make your ideas into reality, this is how its done. I consider each example a best practice of how to use Flash CS Professional.Justin Everett-Church, Sr. Product Manager Flash Player, Adobe SystemsChris Georgenes' gorgeously designed book contains many short, practical tutorials that both Flash animators and web designers will want to thumb through to learn the tricks of the trade, so they can really impress their clients.Stefan Gruenwedel, Sr. Editor, Developer Center, Adobe SystemsThis is a not-to-be-missed chance to get secrets from one of the foremost authorities on Flash animation. His techniques for animating characters are essential for anyone dreaming of creating a cartoon or animated feature.Craig Goodman, Executive Editor, Developer Center, Adobe SystemsThis is a must-have Flash book. Whether you consider yourself more a Flash designer or developer, you'll want to run home and try out the concepts and techniques in this beautifully presented book.Tim Statler, Flash developer, Adobe SystemsA valuable resource loaded with helpful tips and hints for Flash users at all skill levels. It is filled with practical how-to examples for artists and animators, presented in a clear step-by-step manner with illustrations documenting each step along the way.Jim Ver Hague, Professor Emeritus, Computer Graphics Design, Rochester Institute of Technology

How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3 by Chris Georgenes (Author)Publisher: Focal Press; Pap/Cdr edition (August 6, 2007) ISBN-10: 0240520580 PDF 42 Mb 280 pages

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Flash Video for Professionals (e-book)

More than just a programming guide, this book takes you step by step through the process of gathering and preparing content, asking the right questions, determining the scope of the project and writing the project proposal. The authors cull from their professional experience of running their own digital media company to explain the special considerations in deploying Flash video applications, presenting ideas for solutions as well as tips for avoiding the most common pitfalls.

Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating video on the Web by Lisa LarsonPublisher: Sybex (July 2, 2007) ISBN-10: 0470131136 PDF 3 Mb 362 pages.

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