Flash MX Motion Graphics

By Euna Seol and Seol Euna

Flash MX Motion Graphics covers a variety of motion graphic techniques, taking you from planning and gathering materials through executing, fine-tuning, and adjusting the finished piece. It also features interviews with 10 Flash artists from around the world, including Hillman Curtis, Eric Jordan, and Todd Purgason. This book focuses on skills to harness motion graphics in Flash MX, including: * Digitizing video, and capturing, saving, and editing sound * Incorporating text animation and bitmap images * Working around constraints such as file sizes and the limitations of the computer screen * Adding interactive elements * Using Photoshop and 3D programs to create background images The author's website, www.seoleuna.com, experiments with the various interactive possibilities of Flash and motion graphics and is featured throughout the book. It's based on the concept of introducing an off-line exhibition to the Internet, which serves as a personal exhibition space for Seol Euna.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782141250
• ISBN13: 9780782141252
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.9" x 0.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

An Artist!

I like Seol Euna's book very much. More than anything else the book is about how to become an artist. She incourages you to find your own voice. Hopefully I'll put in the work that is required. There are lots of other books that teach the craft. I want to thank her very much for not being afraid!

This is a very cool book!!

great flash examples and easy to follow tutorials make this book a great add on to your flash learning library.

Coffee Table Flash Web Design Book

Overview.The first coffee table Flash manual that I have seen. This book has been laid out using the principals of design that are used in good Flash sites on the Web.Features. Largish soft-cover book of 325 glossy pages with Cd-rom included, which gives the .fla files for completing the projects.This book has been designed differently from most manuals. Using good quality gloss paper with very clear screen shots, and each section, or chapter is done on a different coloured pastel background. Very tasteful.A Cd-rom is included and the lessons are very clear. They start at what can be considered the easy end of the Flash scale, and as you progress, more depth is included until you are led to some quite complex ActionScript and dynamic interaction in a steady and sensible way. A lot of people never get to the ActionScript because it looks daunting. Here, you just carry on from earlier lessons and are led gently into the start of what makes Flash really kick butt.At the end of each chapter is a link and discussion with a different talented web designer.The screen shots are more like good quality photos and each detail is highlighted and explained fully in the accompanying numbered paragraph.Book Description.There is no index as this is more of a how-to book than an in-depth manual. But it is not just a simple follow-these-steps type either.You are taken through 9 separate projects, gradually gaining confidence in the different aspects of Flash usage.1. About Motion Graphics introduces and explains simple things like compression of images, sound etc. How and why are really important concepts and are described well.2. Using video clips in Flash MX is something that can be done relatively simply now, but imaging needs more work than just cutting and pasting if you want the best results. As video may not be the best way to convey movement, a lot of time has been spent showing how to reduce bandwidth by simplifying the process while not reducing quality.3. Sounds in Flash are really important and difficult to control and you are shown how to do everything from recording to editing, before using sound clips in your movie.4. This chapter is an example of text animation, but is not just plain text. The background and the method of the animation makes something a work of art instead of a simple cartoon. It seems to me that what separates the good Flash design exponents from the rest is their ability to add interesting visuals behind the mundane.5. You are taken through all the steps to create a Christmas card using some simple, and some newer, more complex techniques. This is where this book works so well, because what may be done very plainly by a learner can be enhanced using techniques like masking, which, if not approached gently, will put off the uninitiated. Here, you are led very carefully and in great detail through all the steps required.The detail in the timeline is starting to become even more important and the screen shots are very clear. This c