Product Description

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.

* Learn how to do professional Flash animation with this comprehensive guide, written for the creative, not the programmer!
* Stay ahead from the rest with a professional developer's coverage of dynamic animation, Interactive TV and the PocketPC environment.
* Use the free CD to try out everything covered in the book yourself, the quickest way to learn.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #804358 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
'.....[Animating with Flash MX] sets itself apart by drawing on other apps - such as Poser and Swift - in the creation of Flash movies, and also by demonstrating how to tailor delivery to both Web and non-Web platforms.'
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From the Publisher
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. See how you can apply these techniques to your own work. See how to make your character run in Flash, how to speed them up and slow them down, how to make them stumble as they walk, how to show their anger or fear, how to make them come to life. Learn how to translate your animation skills to the most widely used digital animation platform.Sprite Interactive show 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. Make sure you are at the cutting edge of animation and push your creative skills to the edge, if you want to animate in Flash, buy this book.

About the Author
Managing Director of Sprite Interactive Ltd, UK a new media agency, and previously Creative Director with Disney and Buena Vista International.

Customer Reviews

Classic
This book is a classic.

If you have The Animator's Workbook by Tony White, then this is the 21st century version. The scope of this book is really quite staggering. It has more games than your average Flash games book, it has more on video and DVD information than I have ever seen in one place. The detail is almost overwhelming. The tutorials are very clear and easy to follow.

This book covers all aspects of animation within a Flash environment. If you're at all serious about animation in Flash then this is the book to read first. Alex seems to cover every form of play back from iTV, PDA's, Computers and Mobile phones. How the same content works across all these platforms is really quite interesting. I am glad I read this book, because its going to stop me from falling into some very costly pitfalls.

My only little gripe is that on a few occasions the book is a little chatty, But otherwise you are going to love this book!

Not the best despite what everyone says....
This book is great if your wanting to learn how to create a Flash Website, this book lacks knowledge on actually creating a flash animated piece (e.g. short movie) this book is more focused upon the website side of things, which was something I didn't want to do, the tutorials within the book are interesting but they use 2 characters throughout, they are ok in the book but when you actually go to the pratical side of things, the book is very very confusing, it will even be more confusing to beginners, this book tugs into the deep end too early leaving many questions than answers.
This book is great if you've had experience in flash but if your new to it, you might want to try something else :/
This isn't a book that I would recommend to flash beginners because the text is over done, its too complicated to follow along, its doesn't give solutions to why this is needed in the tutorials but just tells you to do it.. I wanted to learn from the book but after working 1/4 of the way through it, I had many questions, questions that the book could not answer.
The DVD isn't that impressive either as it just gives you the Completed version of what you have to do in the tutorials, at the end of the day, you aren't really picking up anything from the book... I didn't and I'm a beginner, prehaps things will be difference for experts or veterans of the software.

Animating with Flash MX: Professional Creative Animation Tec
Great, in-depth book
This book is a great book to have. It's wonderfully illustrated with glossy pages and color pictures and has tons of information for anyone wanting master the art of animation. The amount of detail in this book is daunting and it covers everything from different animation techniques to character binding to video and rendering. This is a definite must for anyone wanting to get into character animation. This is a must have.