New Masters of Flash

by Joel Baumann, Olivier Besson

New Masters of Flash is both a global showcase and practical tutorial. Nineteen 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. The author-designers are some of the most legendary Flash innovators currently working―from the U.S. to Japan, Europe to South Yugo Nakamura , Joshua Davis , Manuel Clement , Irene Chan and Tomato Interactive's Joel Baumann , together with 14 other leading Flash practitioners. These are the designers who are expanding the horizons of interactive interface design with Flash. Join them! With the book is a CD-ROM containing animated movie versions of the tutorials from the book, together with the finished interactive effects. If you're in a real hurry, you can download the source-code FLAs for many of the tutorials, in both Flash 5 and Flash 4 versions, from the CD-ROM New Masters folder. Also on the CD-ROM are video QuickTime interviews with the designers from the book.

Genres: Computers

550 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

Reviews

[Matt McClard · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought this book to help me learn Flash. It was not very helpful, but it did have nice pictures.

[Andrew Montalenti · Rating 5 out of 5]

This old book taught me to respect the mixture of creativity and craft inherent in web development.