Flash5 Online Animation Creation Guide from Flasher's Home - Including Disc

Author: Mo Zhixiong
Publisher: Beijing Hope Electronic Press
Publication Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This is a textbook that provides a detailed explanation of how to design and create online animations using Flash. "Flash Home" 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. The current 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 and engagingly explain the fundamental principles of Flash animations, enabling readers to easily and quickly get started. Chapters 2 to 4 cover drawing, coloring, 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 animations more rich and engaging. Chapters 7 to 8 delve deeper into two important concepts in Flash—symbols and layers—and 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 highlight of this book. Chapter 11 introduces how to add voice to animations, making them more captivating. Chapter 12 covers the export of animations and their applications on the internet. The appendix lists relevant Flash online resources.
The key feature of this edition is that the author has categorized the techniques of Flash animation into more than a dozen major categories. Through meticulously designed nearly 70 typical examples, readers can systematically and comprehensively master both the basic and advanced techniques of Flash animation in a relatively short time, achieving the goal of easy and flexible application. These examples include: text effects, light and shadow effects, masking effects, interactive buttons, scrolling text, cool mouse effects, sound effects, intros, form elements, and advanced interactive animation creation.
This book is suitable for beginners and intermediate users and serves as a self-study guide for website animation creators, website/page editors and developers, and multimedia developers. It can also be used as a training for introductory online animation classes. The included with this edition contains the source files of the examples in the book.