Flash Home: Flash 5 Online Animation Making Guide

Author: Mo Zhixiong
Publisher: Beijing Hope Electronic Press
Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This is a textbook that provides a detailed explanation of how to design and create online animations using Flash. "Flash Garden" is published in two volumes: one is a tutorial on online animation creation, and the other is a tutorial on online animation programming. These two works are the masterpieces of Mo Zhixiong, a seasoned expert in the "Flash Empire" in China. This edition is a guidebook for online animation creation, consisting of 12 chapters divided into a Basic Section and an Examples Section. In the Basic Section, the author uses two simple creation processes to vividly explain the fundamental principles of Flash animation, enabling readers to easily and quickly get started. Chapters 2 to 4 cover drawing, color usage, and object manipulation methods, which are essential basic knowledge for Flash animation materials. Chapters 5 to 6 introduce how to use text and images in animations, making the content of the created animations richer. Chapters 7 to 8 delve into two important concepts in Flash—symbols and layers—as well as their applications in animation creation, laying the foundation for creating complex animations later. Chapters 9 to 10 provide detailed explanations of the creation methods for simple and advanced animations through examples, which is another key feature of this book. Chapter 11 introduces how to add voice to animations, making them more engaging. Chapter 12 covers the export of animations and their application on the web. The appendix lists related resources for Flash online animations.
The key feature of this edition is that the author categorizes Flash animation creation techniques into more than a dozen major groups. Through carefully designed processes of nearly 70 typical examples, readers can comprehensively and systematically master the basic and advanced techniques of Flash animation creation in a relatively short time, achieving the goal of easy and practical application. These examples include text effects, light and shadow effects, mask effects, interactive buttons, scrolling text, cool mouse effects, sound effects, opening sequences, form elements, and advanced interactive animation creation, among others.
This book is aimed at beginners and intermediate users and is suitable as a self-study guide for website animation creators, website/web editors and developers, and multimedia developers. It can also serve as a training textbook for introductory online animation classes. The accompanying CD-ROM for this edition includes the source files of the examples in the book.