Focal Easy Guide to Flash MX 2004: For new users and professionals (The Focal Easy Guide Series)

By Birgitta Hosea

Confused by ActionScript? Want to get to grips with creating interactive graphics and animation in Flash quickly? Whether you are a new user or a professional illustrator, designer or animator experienced in other animation and effects packages, this highly visual, color book will be all you need to get you up and running with the latest powerful upgrade - Flash MX 2004. Birgitta Hosea uses tried and tested material based on her teaching, breaking down the software into its main components and providing lots of screenshots and simple step-by-step instructions. This encourages you to get the most out of the programme and fully develop your skills, whilst allowing those with particular needs to 'jump ahead'. The structure and style, influenced by her commercial and creative expertise, allows you either as a student or professional to dip in and out according to the needs of your specific projects, but also allows the exploration of the programmes capability when you have more time. It is a generalist, accessible, visual and a truly introductory guide, written from the perspective of a designer with a thorough coverage of the basic features of Flash MX 2004, without going too in-depth into coding with ActionScript. Birgitta Hosea is a motion graphics artist and Course Director of the London Animation Studio at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her experience ranges from designing idents and promotional materials to working as an Art Director on pop promos and short films.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240519590
• ISBN13: 9780240519593
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A straightforward guide to the Flash MX 2004 upgrade for creating graphics & animation

The Focal Easy Guide To Flash MX 2004 is a straightforward guide to the Flash MX 2004 upgrade for creating graphics & animation. Illustrated throughout with computer screenshots in full color, The Focal Easy Guide To Flash MX 2004 combines enumerated instructions with displays of exactly what to click on where to achieve which visual effects. An index for quick reference rounds out this "must-have" starter instructional that will prove as useful to amateurs as it will to professionals who need to swiftly look up a specific tip or feature. Highly recommended.

Okay - Now this is a GREAT book!

After spending literally thousands of dollars on courses, learning cd's, Macromedia Studio, etc... I was in a local book store and started thumbing through it. The simplicity of FLASH flashed through my mind. I finally got it. Everything clicked. I bought the book, brought it home, read the entire book with lessons over the next three days, and viola- I could do professional design (or at least I feel I could). Seriously, it is very easy to read. It is not buried in jargon, but instead uses read examples in a step by step tutorial like setting where you play with the program and get comfortable with the environment. I seriously loved this book, and couldn't recommend and on Flash ahead of it... but don't take my word. Go to a local book store and thumb through it yourself. GOOD LUCK!