Flash 3 Web Animation F/X and Design [With Contains a Demo of Flash 3, Plug-Ins, Clipart...]

by Ken Milburn and Janine Warner

Flash 3 is the up-and-coming design tool for animation and is currently supported by Disney, NBC, Microsoft, IBM, and Netscape. Showing step-by-step how to apply transparency, create morphing effects,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157610382X
• ISBN13: 9781576103821
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Great for beginners...

If you're NEW to Flash, this is a great book. For those of you that know NOTHING about Flash, but want to learn... this is probably the best book on Flash out there. If you're already fluent in Flash, don't waste your time, and anyway, if you're that fluent, why do you need a book? Use your imagination when it comes to designing and programming!

Excellent!

First of all, you people here giving this book a one star for the missing tutorials is not good at all. He does a awesome job of explaining flash to a beginner/intermediate flash user. WHO TOLD YOU TO BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU WERE AN EXPERT? Anyways, even if the tutorials and things were missing, you could've still downloaded it from the website!! As Ken Milburn said, he did not intend to do it and made an error. But, this book was excellent in my opinion and i think you should buy this book.

Good writing, friendly style, got me up and running fast

I dug this book a lot, being a newcomer to Flash. I've read a bunch of Milburn's books and his many magazine articles, and I think he's a good writer. I don't know where these other reviews are coming from. They look suspiciously like they are from the same person. If you want to make an objective decision about whether to buy this book, here's my take. Buy it if you're new to vector graphics or animation. It's considerably more patient and detailed than the on-line tutorials. Don't buy it if you're an experienced Flasher who's been working with the program since its inception. Flash is a simple program compared to most graphics applications. Practice every day and you'll start inventing stylistic "tricks" and putting together new combinations of elements. The negative reviews you see here also clump together in a batch every time someone posts a positive review. It really looks to me like the idea is to push the positive reviews from the active part of the Web page and to make sure that there are enough of them to lower the average ratings.

This book is excelent!!!

This book is very good, now, I have many tools to do my home page!

Too bad shipping isn't refundable....

This book looked promising based on, A previously released book looked bad, so this one must be good. Right? (nope) Flash3 has been out for awhile now, so the author has had time to work things out, and refine the publication. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This book talks down an already simple program, making it suitable for people who have very little experience with any sort of graphics program, rather than the beginning Flash user. Most people can get beyond 90% of this book in less than a day or two of work.... I think I speak for many Flash 3 Users when I ask for an ADVANCED FLASH 3 Book PLEASE!