Explores how to use and create features including graphics, text, symbols, animation, interactivity, sound, video, ActionScript, content, printable movies, and Web sites.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains source and published files for examples in the book, demo copy of Flash MX for Windows and Macintosh, Flash Player for your browser, and web links to Flash resource sites.

Updated and revised, this bestselling tutorial is a clearly written, well-organized introduction to Flash and gives the beginner an overview of the application's newest version.

Discusses topics including creating and modifying graphics, using non-Flash graphics, frame-by-frame animations, interactivity, and adding sound and video.

Give games and Web applications a professional look with powerful Flash movies and high-quality animations. Master ActionScript by watching 70 plus videos from the desktop of expert Flash author and developer Livingston on accompanying CD-ROM with code.

This book is broken up into a collection of hands-on seminars that each focus on teaching a specific aspect of Flash MX. The author begins each seminar by teaching core concepts and techniques. Then, in the workshop, she takes the reader step by step through applying those concepts and techniques to an actual Flash movie. By working through the book cover to cover, you can build an entire Flash web site that includes compelling graphics and animation, audio and video, ActionScript-driven activities, games and personalization, components, and XML-driven forms.

Annotation The only comprehensive reference to Flash that creative professionals and Flash gurus will need! Covering basic skills quickly and concisely, it allows more time to be spent on more advanced topics.nbsp;Organised by topic, readers can jump in and learn only what they need to complete the task at hand. nbsp; Completely up20020828d and expanded to cover all aspects of Flash MX, including Flash's upgraded ActionScript and interface features. Concise and complete, containing the information that busy professionals need without any of the fluff. Includes contributions from several highly respected Flash professionals; they give real-world tasks and tips as well as answers to questions they've been hearing for years as trainers. Cyndy Cashman is the founder and president of Breakaway Interactive Training and Digital Media Center, located in Norman, Oklahoma. Her company is a Macromedia-authorized training center providing training and consulting services for interactive media. She has been using and teaching advanced Flash topics for many years. Michael Hurwicz has been using Flash 5 intensively since it first came out. He has written about Macromedia Director, discreet 3d Studio Max, and eRain Swift3D for WebTools. A full-time freelance writer for 16 years, he has written books on networks and architecture. nbsp.

Readers will learn how to design, structure and optimize for the most efficient Flash animations possible. Each subject is presented in clear and direct language, with useful and well-explained examples and extensive graphical elements. Sample questions accompany each subject.

So you wanna be a hotshot game designer? Well, if you have a basic grasp of Macromedia Flash MX, you can. Unafraid to tackle some of the more complicated aspects of game creation (including physics and trigonometry!), this comprehensive reference covers it all. Macromedia Flash Game Design Demystified starts out with the basics: planning, adapting ActionScript techniques, using introductory Flash game techniques, and more. Then it gets down to the real business of building simple games. You'll tackle simple-logic and quiz games before moving on to multiplayer and complex-logic games (chess, for example)--learning about importing 3-D graphics, adding sound effects, and licensing your games in the process. The book's companion CD includes the source files for a number of games as well as the tutorials and lessons that go along with the book and XML server software to facilitate multiplayer games. If you're tired of the games that you have and want to make your own action, this book offers comprehensive coverage of sophisticated techniques--but put in easy-to-grasp, practical terms.

Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Examples and Trial versions of Flash MX 2004, Canvas 9 Professional Ed., Sorenson Squeeze, Swift 3D, Toon Boom Studio.