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FlashTM 5 Cartooning - Softcover

Clarkson, Mark

 
9780764535475: FlashTM 5 Cartooning

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

About the Author Mark Clarkson is a former software analyst for Boeing who now works as a freelance writer and computer artist. He has written for Computer Gaming World, Computer Artist, and Computer Graphics World, and his Flash cartoons are featured on AtomFilms.com.

From the Back Cover

Your Complete Guide to State–of–the–Art Flash 5 Cartoons Flash has opened up a whole new world for animators. But how do you create cartoons that make the most of Flash – cartoons that feature appealing characters, convincing movement, and great sound? Flash 5 Cartooning provides the answers. Brimming with full–color examples and savvy advice on the craft of cartooning, this unique guide focuses exclusively on the challenges you face as a Flash animator. From choosing a cartoon style and building repetitive motion cycles to lip–snyching, mastering sound effects, and creating ActonScript–controlled movie clips, it shows you step–by–step how to capitalize on Flash animation tools – and create engaging, commercial–quality cartoons. Bonus CD–ROM
∗ Example cartoons from the book
∗ Interactive tutorials
∗ Flash 5, Fireworks 4, Dreamweaver 4, and FreeHand 9 trial versions
∗ Adobe LiveMotion, Adobe Streamline 4, and Illustrator 8 tryout versions
∗ Paint Shop Pro evaluation version
∗ Screenweaver and ACID Pro trial versions
∗ ScreenTime for Flash and SoundForge XP demos
System Requirements: PC runningWindows 95 or later, Windows NT 4 or later; Power Macintosh running system 8.1 or later. See the About the CD Appendix for details and complete systems requirements. www.hungryminds.com

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