With the power of Flash, your Web presentations and information can be fun and interactive. Using streaming animations, or webisodes, you can entertain, educate, and promote to your audience easily and effectively.
Written for artists, illustrators, and Web developers, The Flash Webisode Production Handbook, provides useful insights and hands-on techniques that explain how to plan, create, and deploy webisodes with Flash 5. Using cartoon examples, each chapter focuses on a specific part of the Flash animation development process, and provides useful problem-solving techniques for any type of production. Everything from how to create the story, to delivering your animations effectively is covered.
With Flash 5 as your authoring tool and the guidelines in this book, you can learn how to produce animated short films, edutainment presentations, games, interactive greeting cards, and more.
KEY FEATURES
* Details the issues involved in producing a webisode from developing the story to putting it on the Web
* Covers Flash sound basics and how to use ACID㤠to make loops
* Explains how to optimize bitmapped images and create GIF animations using Fireworks
* Teaches how to create tweened animations and how to integrate movie clips and graphic symbols
* Covers advanced techniques, including lip synchronization and ActionScripting
* Teaches interactive ActionScripting for games, including a slider game, jigsaw puzzle, match game, find game, hangman, and a maze game
* Covers deployment concerns including bandwidth issues and preloaders
* Details how to optimize and secure your webisodes
On the CD-ROM
Limited-use Demos of Popular Programs
* Awave Audio (Win)
* Crater Software CTP PRO (Win)
* GoldWave Goldwave (Win)
* JavaKitty vid2Flash (Win)
* Macromedia Flash 5 & Fireworks 4 (Win/Mac)
* TriMedia Retas Pro (Win/Mac)
* Apotheosis ScreenForge (Win/Mac)
* Marmalade FlashAmp (Win/Mac)
* Feltip Sound Studio (Mac)
* Proteron N2MP3 Professional & Mpegger (Mac)
* The Mediahead Loop Library
* Sample loops in mp3 format
* Source Code for example projects
* FLA, wav, and movie files
* Artwork for example webisodes that the user can use to develop the productions
System Requirements
Windows: Pentium III processor, Athlon processor; Microsoft Windows® 95, 98, or Windows 2000/ME, 64MB memory, Hard disk space: 6GB, VGA or higher resolution video adapter (SVGA 256-color recommended); Mouse or compatible pointing device, CD-ROM drive, and sound card. Macintosh: 300 MHz G3 or higher, MacOS System 8 or later, 64MB memory, 6GB Hard disk space VGA or higher resolution video adapter(24-bit video display recommended), Mouse or compatible pointing device, CD-ROM drive. Both systems also require Internet Explorer 5 or later, or Netscape 4.7 or later and Flash 5. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Flash Webisode Production Handbook (With CD-ROM) (John G. Moore, John B. Moore)