This text contains step-by-step methods to make your Flash 5 and Flash MX animations more impressive, engaging, effective and fun. It offers 50 cool techniques to take your Flash animations to the next level and coverage includes topics such as simulating a 3D cube and creating an explosion.

50 cool techniques that will take your Flash animations to the next level. Includes topics such as Simulating a 3D Cube, Creating an Explosion, Building Letters from an Images, Making Mono Clips Sound Like Stereo, Creating a 3D Morph, Triggering Speech Bubbles, Building a User-response Form, Putting a Flash Movie onto a PDA. Covers the latest Flash "X" release. Most of these effects can also be created with Flash 5. 50 step-by-step methods to make your Flash 5 and Flash "X" animations more impressive, engaging, effective, and fun. Includes a 32-page full-color insert highlighting the most dramatic visual tricks.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: 2D Animation
Technique 1: A Line Drawing Itself
Technique 2: Make a Character Walk
Technique 3: Talking Head
Technique 4: Create Ripples
Technique 5: Dissolve a Vector into a Bitmap
Technique 6: Morph a Geometric Shape into an Image
Technique 7: Make Bubbles
Technique 8: Kaleidoscope
Technique 9: Wrap an Image
Technique 10: Fireworks
Chapter 2: 3D Animation
Technique 11: Rotating 3D Logo
Technique 12: Rotating Earth
Chapter 3: Text
Technique 13: Text Controlling Objects
Technique 14: Animated Text Warping
Technique 15: Text Morphing
Technique 16: Movies Inside Text
Technique 17: Swarming Dots Form Text
Technique 18: Radiating Text Effects
Chapter 4: Sound and Video
Technique 19: On/Off and Volume Sound Controls
Technique 20: Adding Video to a Flash Movie
Chapter 5: Interactive Effects
Technique 21: Draggable Magnifying Lens
Technique 22: Draggable Movies
Technique 23: Image Slide Scroller with Motion Blur
Technique 24: Pan and Zoom an Image
Technique 25: Make a Scrolling Virtual Reality Panorama
Technique 26: Draggable Mask
Technique 27: Interactive Shadows
Chapter 6: User Interfaces
Technique 28: Mouse Trails
Technique 29: Tabbed Menu
Technique 30: Scroll Bars
Technique 31: Pop-Up Windows
Technique 32: Create a Multiple Choice Quiz
Technique 33: User Response Form
Technique 34: Form Validation
Technique 35: Collapsible Menu
Technique 36: 3D Book as a User Interface
Technique 37: Rollover Scroll
Technique 38: Custom Cursors
Technique 39: Cascading Menu
Technique 40: Animated Button
Technique 41: Preloader with Progress Display
Technique 42: Slide Show with Special Effect Transitions
Chapter 7: Mini-Applications
Technique 43: News Ticker
Technique 44 Digital or Analog Clock
Technique 45: Music Keyboard and Synthesizer
Technique 46: MP3 Player
Technique 47: Drum Set
Technique 48: On-Screen Print Program
Technique 49: Calculator
Technique 50: Create a Stand-Alone Movie
Appendix A: What's On the CD-ROM
Appendix B: Other Resources
About the Author
Colophon
Index
End-User License Agreement