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Need to solve problems quickly to develop creative projects to time and to budget? Want to hone your Flash skills so you can concentrate on your animation? Then How to Cheat in Flash is for you! Chris Georgenes shows how to work from the problem to the solution - from the viewpoint of an animator who has been commissioned to create a job and is working to a deadline and to a budget.
With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce creative, professional animations, Chris is the go-to guru for designers and animators who want to create great animation, applications or motion design with Flash. Fully updated for CS5, How to Cheat in Flash CS5, is a goldmine of artistic inspiration, timesaving practical tips, tricks and step-by-step workthroughs that you'll wonder how you survived without it.
Each techniques is designed as a double-page spread so you can prop the book up behind your keyboard or next to your monitor as a visual reference while working alongside it. Many of these workthroughs are real-world client projects, with the source files supplied for you to open and explore. With these real-life professional projects you'll discover how to: bring objects to life with cool motion effects, make it rain, snow or set your world ablaze, develop flash mobile applications and many more tips and tricks not found anywhere else!
* Work over the shoulder of Chris Georgenes, renowned Flash expert, and apply the practical techniques, tips and tricks to your own projects with downloadable Flash source files, examples and tutorials, available at www.howtocheatinflash.com.
* Bestselling How to Cheat coverage of Flash CS5 - proven format for successful learning
* Learn a myriad of tips and tricks based on real-life working methods to help you work faster and more efficiently and to budget!
* Work from the problem to the solution, to gain the best possible results from Flash CS5!
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** Should I Buy This Even If I Don't Have CS5?
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* HOW TO CHEAT IN ADOBE FLASH CS5 by Chris Georgenes is an instructional companion book to Flash CS5. Filled with step-by-step lessons from the fundamental of graphic arts and bitmap creation through the video/ animation layout of Flash, it is more of a "classroom-in-a-book" than a mere guide to how the program works or an introduction to the tools of the software.
This book, like HTC/CS3 in which I bought several years ago, is much more valuable than the title relays. If you're going to use ANY kind of animation software, a book such as this become an essential reference. I found this to be true in my recent struggle to comprehend/ use the animation software, Anime 7 Studio Debut (PC/Mac). There the layout is much more simpler to grasp than Flash, but and this is a big but, ASD7 lacks that weight to do real animation: animation that can produce files or movies that is presentation-quality. This is the beauty of Adobe Flash. It is also why you (and I) paid the big $$$ for it as well. HTC-Flash CS5 is filled with the fundamentals of basic animation. It's thorough and prepares one for the challenges of most animation software. This, in my opinion, makes the book more universal and exceeds its premise of just applicability to Flash.
** If you don't own at least HTC-Flash CS3, I'd say without question. If you have to buy a Flash tutorial/ classroom-in-a-book, this would be it. (I'd also throw in another book, Flash Cinematic Techniques: Enhancing Animated Shorts and Interactive Storytelling: Animating and Building Interactive Stories to round out your Flash library, if you're on a budget.)
Here's where it becomes tricky. Buy this book, obviously, if you have Adobe Flash CS5. If you don't, but you own HTC-Flash CS3, like I do, I don't think the upgrade may be worth it. Because, many of the chapters have been duplicated. There are later chapters that deal with new features specific for Flash CS5 and so the book gives you invaluable instructional detail. (However, if you don't own CS5, there's still a possibility that you may find yourself in a work environment that has CS5, so this book would be well-worth the investment.)
*** Anyone who uses Flash or wants to learn how to use Flash or any kind of animation software, Flash, Anime Studio, or the excellent Toon Boom Studio, then owning a recent edition of Chris Georgenes' book is an extremely wise investment.
Well structured, it is organized in exercises and it explains step by step all the passages to achieve the result.
A must have if your a beginner or experienced flash user! A++++ to the Author!
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