Contents

How to cheat, and why

Acknowledgments

How to use this book

1 Design styles

Drawing with basic shapes

Geometric and organic shapes

Advanced Color Effect

Animated Color Effect

Using gradients

Shading 1: line trick

Shading 2: shape it

Shading 3: paint selected

Shading 4: outlines

Realism with gradients

Spray Brush tool

Interlude: The new Flash CS5 interface

2 Transformation and distortion

Distorting bitmaps

The Envelope tool

Squash and stretch

Interlude: Being subtle

Iris transition

Feathered mask (ActionScript)

Interlude: A moment of clarity

4 Motion techniques

Motion and Classic tweens

Creating Motion tweens

Working with Motion spans

Editing Motion paths

Motion Editor properties

Motion tweens and 3D

3D Position and View

Basic bone armature

Complex bone armature

Joint rotation and constrain

Bone tool easing basics

Bones and shapes

Perspective shadow

Combining effects

Blur filter (text)

Selective blurring

Background blurring

Interlude: Learning to be simple

5 Character animation

Lip syncing (swap method)

Lip syncing (nesting method)

To sync or not to sync

Sync (Classic tweens)

Sync (Motion tweens)

Hinging body parts

Bone tool (Inverse Kinematics)

Closing the gaps

Bitmap animation (Jib Jab)

PSD Importer (Jib Jab)

Motion guides (Jib Jab)

Advanced walk cycle

Drawing upon oneself

Looping backgrounds

Tradigital animation

Interlude: How did I get here?

6 Flash to video

Title and action safety

CS5 video templates

Safe colors (Kuler)

Keeping it all in sync

QuickTime Exporter

SWF & FLV Toolbox

Interlude: Graphics tablets

7 Animation examples

Super text effect

Smoke with gradients

Full steam ahead

Handwriting effect (frame-by-frame)

Color adjustments

Playing with fire

Winter wonderland

Sausage grinder

Interlude: From the inside out

8 Working with sound

Recording sounds

Adobe^® Soundbooth^® CS5

Adobe^® Audition ^® 3.0

Dynamic sounds (AS3)

Interlude: My wishlist for Flash CS6

9 Working with video

Importing video (pre-CS4)

Importing video (CS4 and CS5)

Flash Video (FLV)

Interlude: FLV tools and articles

10 Interactivity

Pausing the Timeline

Loading images (AS3)

Loading images (AS2)

Toggling sound (AS3)

Interlude: Objects, objects everywhere

11 Extending Flash

Introduction to JSFL

Trace Bitmap and JSFL

Enter current frame

Ajar Extensions

Swift 3D Xpress

Flash Decompiler Trillix

Flash Optimizer

Interlude: Pimp my Flash

12 What's new in CS5

XFL uncompressed format

Code Snippet panel

Text Layout Framework

iPhone publisher

Interlude: The Future of Flash

What's on the CD