Okay, for those of you who haven’t heard, I’ve stopped using Flash for animation. Before I explain why, allow me to be clear—I haven’t stopped using Flash for other projects (web design, motion comics, etc.), I just no longer animate with it. For animation, I switched over to a product from Toon Boom called Animate [...]
FREE Bobby Chiu digital painting tutorial!
July 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Create a Rainy Cityscape in Toon Boom Animate
June 8, 2010 By 7 Comments
OK Campers, there is a lot involved in this tutorial. It’s a Rainy Cityscape in Toon Boom Animate 2.0. It is 26 minutes and covers: custom settings, Importing Adobe Illustrator files, camera set-up, importing image files, making a rain effect, importing sound, drawing swap, swf test, exporting mov If you don’t have a copy of [...]
A Simple Leg Hierarchy starting from a Rectangle
April 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
Animating Classic Cartoon Eyes in Flash
January 25, 2010 By 3 Comments
Here is a basic Flash tutorial to animate cartoon eyes w/ a blink. This tutorial uses Graphic symbols set to Single Frame. I’m using CS4, but this technique is doable in earlier versions of Flash as well, (even before any CS version). 19 minutes/54.5MB… be patient while loading click here, or below, to order & [...]
Photoshop: Blending Modes & Layer Masks
January 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Customize Your Flash CS4 Workspace
October 21, 2009 By 2 Comments
New Tutorial on GoMediazine!
September 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Hey Campers, hope all is well with you. I have a new tutorial on Gomediazine, a Flash file with a simple, yet eye-catching effect — a black & white photo with full-color rollovers. This is the first in a multi-part tutorial. Check it out! I wanna send a shout-out, and special thank you to the [...]
AS3 Tutorial: Colors… again
June 23, 2009 By 3 Comments
So after viewing my tutorial, Build A Basic Site Using AS3 in Flash, over on Creative COW, Tom Whaley had the following to ask:I’m making an interactive color chart that has a square inside a square. I want to be able to change the color of both squares individually. How can I change them separately? [...]
Flash Plays Well with Others | pt 1 | Quicktime
April 4, 2009 By 4 Comments
Hey All, this is the first part in my new tutorial series, Flash plays well with others. Flash is awesome in that it can work and integrate with other software applications. First up, Quicktime, as in how to export to Quicktime from Flash. Enjoy, leave comments, and feedback, and stuff. This tutorial is also featured [...]
