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Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed
Feb 9th
Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed teaches readers how to create applications using the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). Readers will learn three things: what AIR is and what it offers to developers, the process of creating an application and some good practises for developing your applications.
In a nutshell AIR lets developers write cross-platform applications in ActionScript or JavaScript- though ActionScript is given most of the coverage in the book. If this sounds a bit like Java’s “write once, run (or test) anywhere,” the comparison is a valid one– in fact, with the new 3D animation support and UI toolkit, AIR could be More >
Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation
Feb 3rd
The techniques covered are for 2D animation of the kind that that might end-up on a website or broadcast. Each chapter proceeds along the path of creating an animation, from the concept, through setting up the Flash workspace, using Flash’s features to create the animation and then into post-production using Adobe’s After Effects.
It should be noted, there isn’t an over-arching animation project created in this book; However, readers could certainly follow along with their own project as the process is fairly linear, from the planning stages, through effectively using Flash’s library and a host of useful plug-in for tasks such More >
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation, Making things Move!
Jul 27th
It’s worth point out that this book focuses almost exclusively on on animation with ActionScript- there is no coverage of creating forms, buttons or even a lot of the usual flying logos that ActionScript is often used for in web design; Instead it’s choke-full of information required to create realistic animation.
The book starts off gradually, showing the reader how to write a simple ActionScript to display a ball, introduces the events system to make it react to events, and then how to compile the script into a .swf file suitable for displaying in a web browser or stand-alone application. While More >
