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Books : New Masters of FlashIn association with Amazon.comby: Tomasz Jankowski, Vince Suriani, Yasuto Suga, Jayson Singe, Todd Purgason, James Paterson, Andries Odendaal, Tony Ke, Eric Jordan, Ivo van der Grift, Brendan Dawes, Joshua Davis, cut-and-paste.com , Manuel Clement, Irene Chan, Yugo Nakamura  List Price: $59.99 Amazon.com's Price: $48.34 You Save: $11.65 (19%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 006 EAN: 9781590592090 ISBN: 1590592093 Label: friends of ED Manufacturer: friends of ED Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 550 Publication Date: July 01, 2003 Publisher: friends of ED Studio: friends of ED Sales Rank: 1761701 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: New Masters of Flash is both global showcase and practical tutorial. Twenty of the planet's most awe-inspiring Flash designers share their influences, ideas and objectives in individual introductory essays. They then take the reader through a step-by-step tutorial explaining in detail how to create in Flash 5 the interfaces, applications and effects that they have made famous. On the accompanying CD, watch interviews with the designers, follow animated versions of the tutorials and download the FLAs for Flash 5 (F4 FLAs are also available from the support website). The author-designers are some of the most legendary Flash innovators currently working - from the US to Japan, Europe to South Africa: Yugo Nakamura, Joshua Davies, Manuel Clement, Irene Chan and Tomato's Joel Baumann together with fifteen other leading Flash practitioners. These are the designers who are expanding the horizons of interactive interface design with Flash. Join them. About the Authors Nineteen legendary Flash artists and designers, including Yugo Nakamura, Brendan Dawes, Todd Purgason, Joshua Davis, Irene Chan, Tomato's Joel Baumann, Tony Ke and more, who between them have won an amazing haul o f prestigious design awards. Cool Site of the Year, Macromedia SSOD, FlashForward, Clio etc etc, they've won them all. Amazon.com Review: Learning by doing is always good, especially if you have good role models to follow. As part of the publisher's "Showing It" series, this book brings together 19 of the most innovative designers who are working in motion graphics, and gives them lots of page room to talk about their work in general, their inspirations (movies, games, etc.), and how they created some of their best projects. Some of the best-known participating artists include Tomasz Jankowski of Mondo.com, Todd Purgason of Juxt Interactive, Eric Jordan of 2advanced.com, and Irene Chan of Eneri.net. Following along is easy; large screen shots and step-by-step narratives guide readers through each process--often telling not just how to do a particular something, but also why. How you then apply these methods to your own work might not be spelled out, but by re-creating the projects you'll gain the confidence and experience that you need to push your skills to the next level. Projects range from thevoid's fairly basic, tween-heavy ripple animation to an interactive menu that's driven by dynamic ActionScripting from James Paterson of presstube.com. Simple text effects are covered, too, along with an introduction to ActionScripts, 3-D animation using only Flash, ActionScripting and Swift 3D, deciding between bitmap and vector art, discussions of download time, integration of Photoshop and Director, and many other topics. All project files are included on the companion CD-ROM, along with some extras. This is a great addition to the Flash library, but the book unfortunately gives off an overpowering ink smell. The layout of the chapters is sometimes confusing, too. Neither of these issues applies to the CD-ROM, however, which reproduces everything in the book in animated form. All you have to do is sit back and watch. And there are some great interview movies, through which you can get to know some of the personal motivations and philosophies of favorite Flash gurus. --Angelynn Grant Topics covered: Profiles of 19 designers who work in Flash, with illustrations of their work and influences Basic and advanced instruction in Flash, including the following:
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 Rating:  - Showcase, yes; Tutorial, NoThis book presents some beautiful applications of the Flash product. However, you will not be able to duplicate their results based on the brief explanations of how they were accomplished, unless you are quite advanced yourself. More than half of the fla source files are not included on the CD-ROM, only the final swf product. Rating:  - Not the right book for anyoneThis is not for the beginners, and as an advanced actionscripter myself, I gained nothing. Maybe the intermediate will learn a few things or two about duplicating movies and if-else statements, but not much more. You will know how to recreate some tired and highly copied visual effects though, something you could of grabbed from the many flash resources online, and for free. But of course, knowing and understanding is two very different things. Actionscripting is a powerful language; if you don't ... Read More Rating:  - very good for designersThat's a very good book for designers. There are a lot of tricks, but you will not find subjects like take a first glance to flash 5 or things like that. Rating: - They might, but you won't.They could well be the masters but as far as you and me, we won't be from reading this book. To me, there is only about 30% of content really worth reading and learning. Everything else is just plain useless towards the above average designers. Beginners will find quite a few good, eye popping, "wow" sort instant effect. But with lack of a certain level of art direction in the book, you still can't design a good Flash, and I have seen the effect on some people's site already (like a poorly mixed Ministry ... Read More Rating: - Not for MeThe description for this book led me believe and expect much more than I got. Tons of great names but little substance. It's a nice table top book or "studio" type book and perhaps thats they way they should sell it. But when you expect to learn advanced techniques from the experts it falls short. I found myself wanting more, not just a teaser project which was just a portion of the "real thing". I'm sure it has it's value as well, I was just too disappointed to see it. I got a refund on this one. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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