Performance Issues and How to Resolve Them It’s no secret that devices are slower than desktop computers. In the case of Flash co …
Sound and How It Affects Playback Audio is a very important element of an animation like “2001.” We could have saved oursel …
Bitmap Images Versus Vector Graphics Bitmap images improve performance, because they are rendered already. The caveat is that they will …
Memory, Memory, Memory The biggest enemy when creating Flash Lite content is not performance, but running out of memory. I touched on t …
Inserting Animation Frames In this first example you’ll insert some Flash SWF files into a RoboDemo movie as animation frames to …
Pausing the RoboDemo Movie while Playing the Animation Pausing the RoboDemo movie while the animation plays is easy; you simply instruc …
Bringing cinematic shots to the webWeb animations and interactive web games help you create immersive environments that engage audience …
Bringing cinematic shots to the web - Setting the Stage Before directors can film a scene, they must set up their characters and props …
Bringing cinematic shots to the web - Camera moves Now that you’ve got the actors laid out, you are ready to design a “multipla …
Using the Toon Boom Studio™ importer for Macromedia Flash MX Now that you have maximized using Toon Boom Studio™ by creating cinema …
Scripting the dialog in Macromedia Flash MX The script that plays back the text and the beeping in the dialog box consists of two parts …
Bringing cinematic shots to the web - Happy trails We’ve come to the end of our exploration of the creation of cinematic, interac …
Flash Game Programming WikiFlash game programmers are probably already aware of the FlashGameCoders web site and the corresponding mail …
I want to be a game programmer! Most of todays commercially popular games are huge monsters that are deployed on several CD’s or …
Flash Game Ideas Writers, filmmakers, musicians, painters and a lot of other artists have a tradition for gathering in clubs, where th …
Animation in Macromedia Flash: Squash and Stretch Squash and stretch is a traditional animation technique that animators commonly use t …