Free! Mini review - New Masters of Flash volume 3

From the Back Cover

Macromedia Flash is the industry standard design tool, providing rich opportunities for creative professionals in many areas of digital design and web development. With the release of the latest version of this exciting product, Flash MX 2004, Macromedia has yet again upped the standard for creating immersive digital experiences. With Flash, the possibilities for artistic expression and overcoming technical challenges are limited only by your imagination.

New Masters of Flash is both a global showcase and a practical tutorial book aimed at professional and aspiring designers who are looking for novel inspirations and imaginative techniques. Following the phenomenal success of the world's most awe-inspiring innovators - you'll see the very finest examples of advanced interaction design, animation techniques, experimental digital art, graphic design, application development, e-learning, and commercial web design.

This book is a celebration of people and ideas - these New Masters are the legendary artists and designers who are continually expanding the horizons of motion graphics and interactive design. They share their influences, ideas, and artistic objectives in a series of individual essays that offer unique insights into the creative professional's life and workflow. They take the reader through step-by-step tutorials and case studies explaining in detail how to re-create their interfaces, applications, effects, and experiments in Macromedia Flash MX 2004.

On the CD:

Tutorial source files and additional examples
Interviews with the authors
Bonus goodies: Ween music video sampler, demo software, and lots more!

Overview

What you will learn

The book takes the reader through step-by-step tutorials, explaining in detail how to re-create the interfaces, applications, and effects in Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Major gurus teach you how to use interaction, animation and design in your Flash animations and applications. The book teaches you about lighting, how to apply 3d animations and integrate them with Flash, how to make interactive interfaces and movies, script movies, optimize your workflow and much more.

Who should buy this book?

The book is aimed at Flash designers and developers. But if you are a beginner or an intermediate user and if you want to learn more about cFlash Design this book will defenitly be worth full to you. If you are an advanced user, you might find some new tricks in this book that you can use and you will almost certainly be inspired by the great examples of the authors.

Conclusion

Although the book is based on Flash MX 2004 rather then Flash 8 it is still a very interesting book with many real life examples of great sites. The book is full of animations, and explanations of cutting edge Flash projects. The book is written by leading Flash artists and I'm sure they will inspire you!

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