The Art of Cartooning with Flash TM: The Twinkle Guide to Flash Character Animation - Softcover

Gray, Daniel; Leib, Gary; Kuramoto, John

 
9780782129137: The Art of Cartooning with Flash TM: The Twinkle Guide to Flash Character Animation

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Flash X is the newest version of Macromedia's best-selling Web graphics tool. This book focuses on one aspect of using Flash: the process of creating a cartoon animation for the Web. This is a hot new area of Web graphics, and little has been written about it. The authors are professional cartoonists and animators, and will use examples from many of their projects to illustrate the art and craft of character animation on the Web using Flash X.

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Dan Gray is a professional Web designer and the author of 17 graphics and Web books. Gary Leib and John Kuramoto are animators at Twinkle, an animation studio in New York City. Twinkle's work has appeared in numerous venues including, PBS, MTV, ABC, Adobe's Web site, and in the Sundance award--winning film, The Tao of Steve.

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Face it, funny doesn't come in the Flash box. Alas, there's no "make funny" button.

At long last, here's a book with the pure intent of helping you squeeze more entertaining bits out of Flash. If you've ever dreamt of creating your own animated cartoon, this book is a must read.

In The Art of Cartooning with Flash, you'll learn how to:

  • Apply the 12 classic principles of cartooning to Flash
  • Build bandwidth-stingy digital puppets
  • Master the walkcycle and other intricate techniques
  • Craft a strong story and dynamic characters
  • Storyboard and layout like a pro
  • Create an animatic to test your ideas
  • Analyze a cartoon, frame-by-frame
Check out the Flash-enabled companion site at http://www.twinkleland.com/book1.html.

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