The 4th quarter Adobe eSeminar series for Web Professionals are now available! Register now! Especially for Architecting a Web Site in Flash since I’m giving it. And rembember, they’re free! Advanced Dreamweaver Design 9/25/2007 9:00 AM PST Use the new CSS starter pages in Dreamweaver CS3 and take using CSS to the next level. Learn [...]
Not sure what Flex is or how it works? Here’s an animated overview I created to help answer this question. It is part of the Flex: Getting Started Experience. That’s right. When you get started with Flex you see one of my animations!
(Place your mouse over the image above to get the feeling like someone is watching you). Download Source Files In this example, every 3 seconds about 15 eyes will randomly animate around your current cursor position. This is done using the tween class with a random variance. But what I want to talk about is [...]
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 9:00 AM PDT So you’ve created Flash graphics but are unsure how to set up an entire site in Flash? In this session I will show you how to build a site in Flash using different methods, and the benefit of each. You’ll even be able to walk away with sample [...]
(roll your mouse over the image above). In this eSeminar I show how to do all your animation using ActionScript 3. Why? Well, some things just can’t be done in the timeline. For instance, if you want a movieclip to follow the mouse. Or you want to animate to an undefined location that’s not known [...]
View Example | Download Source Files This is an example site that was created to show different ActionScript animation techniques which include: Event model (ENTER_FRAME) Timer class Tween class TransitionManager class Dynamically create and animate multiple elements
View Example | Download Source Files Basically the Date object hasn’t changed in AS 3.0. In this example the skull moves once every second and when it reaches the end of the stage then a minute has passed. the red overlay moves every minute, covering the screen in an hour. In general if you want [...]
View File | Download Source Files In AS 3.0, to draw a line that continually changes, add the following code in an ENTER_FRAME:    //remove graphic to remove previously drawn line each time container.graphics.clear(); //define line width in pixels container.graphics.lineStyle(15); //move the drawing pen. Mace X and Y are dynamic positions container.graphics.moveTo(mace.x, mace.y); //draw lines [...]
View Example | Download Source Files Creation There are a couple different ways to create multiple movie clips in AS 3.0 but this is the way I like best. Basically create an array and attach (addChild) the Rain library item to the stage. Place it at a random position within the stage width/height: var rainArray:Array [...]
View Example | Download Source Files In this example, every 3 seconds about 15 eyes will randomly animate around your current cursor position. This is done using the tween class with a random variance. But what I want to talk about is how to get the eyeball to point to the cursor. Here’s the code [...]
A very exciting new announcement from Adobe in the last couple weeks brought industry standard HD quality video to the Flash Player. Paired with the power and ubiquity of the Flash Player the new support for MPEG4 H.264 content will help revolutionize video on the web yet again. The new update also includes support for [...]
Basically the Date object hasn’t changed in AS 3.0 but it’s still the most effective way to get and time items related to the date. In this example the skull moves once every second and when it reaches the end of the stage then a minute has passed. the red overlay moves every minute, covering [...]
The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) See what’s hot with Flash so you can feel bad about how much your stuff sucks. That’s what I do! Cool desktop images as well.
A very exciting new announcement from Adobe in the last couple weeks brought industry standard HD quality video to the Flash Player. Paired with the power and ubiquity of the Flash Player the new support for MPEG4 H.264 content will help revolutionize video on the web yet again. The new update also includes support for [...]
Create a site in Flash! Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 9:00 AM PDT So you’ve created Flash graphics but are unsure how to set up an entire site in Flash? In this session I will show you how to build a site in Flash using different methods, and the benefit of each. You’ll even be able [...]
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 9:00 AM PDT Join me for this eSeminar where we go beyond the simple motion tween and not only get up to speed on ActionScript 3.0 but you’ll learn how to create complex, user-initiated animation that can only be done using ActionScript, bringing your projects to a whole new level. Register [...]
The 4th quarter Adobe eSeminar series for Web Professionals are now available! Register now! Especially for Architecting a Web Site in Flash since I’m giving it. And rembember, they’re free! Advanced Dreamweaver Design 9/25/2007 9:00 AM PST Use the new CSS starter pages in Dreamweaver CS3 and take using CSS to the next level. Learn [...]
Join me for this eSeminar where we go beyond the simple motion tween and not only get up to speed on ActionScript 3.0 but you’ll learn how to create complex, user-initiated animation that can only be done using ActionScript, bringing your projects to a whole new level.
