How to Cheat in Flash CS3 The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3

How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3

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Design styles

This chapter will serve as a refresher course on the fundamentals of designing for animation and introduce a few cool drawing techniques along the way.

Transformation and distortion

This chapter will focus on the versatility of the Free Transform tool and how to apply it to your images.

Masking

MASKS ARE POWERFUL. They can be used in myriad ways to achieve limitless results. Masks can make your daily workflow easier, less time-consuming and, in most cases, become your most indispensable tool.

Motion tips and tricks

In this chapter we will look at a few of what I consider to be the most valuable motion effects that you can use in your everday life as a Flash designer and animator.

Character animation

When is it advantageous to nest certain animations and why? How can swapping symbols be effective? What

exactly does the Sync feature do? What is the most effective way to synchronize a character’s mouth and lips to a voice-over soundtrack?

Flash to video

FLASH IS EVERYWHERE. Not only is Flash developed for online and offline movies, websites, games and applications, but also for DVD and broadcast television.

Animation examples

This chapter contains some of the most popular “How do I...” animation requests from Flash users as far back as Flash version 4.

Working with sound

In this chapter we’ll look at how you can incorporate sounds into your animations, where to find them, how to record, edit and load them dynamically.

Working with video

This chapter features two separate client projects that show how video was used with Flash in different ways to achieve two very different goals.

Going mobile

We’ll look at how to create an animated screensaver for a mobile device and how to test its performance across all supported devices, even if you don’t own one.

Extending Flash

FLASH OFFERS A WIDE ARRAY of features for designing and animating. As great as it is, Flash can sometimes lack some of the functionality that you might benefit from.

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