CartoonSmart.com teaches Flash tutorials in High Quality, High Definition Quicktime Video. Lessons are long format (usually over 2 hours) and comprehensive courses covering a wide range of topics geared toward turning new users to the Flash program into experienced professionals. Our tutorials are divided into these categories...
CartoonSmart tutorials....
The Flash Drawing Tutorials section lists all our current drawing tutorials.
Retro Futuristic Illustration / 1950's style illustration This Flash tutorial teaches how to draw in a specific style of art. Remember that old Jetsons look, thats the best way of summing up this style of art. Check out the examples for more.
Flash Logo Design This tutorial instructs viewers on how to create various logos using Flash (or any program really) The focus includes various styles of logos and how to convey subtle messages about the company in the logo.
How to Design and Illustrate Product Spokes Characters Everyone loves a great spokes character. Think of the many name brands that include a character as part of their corporate branding. This flash tutorial teaches how to draw and some design tips for your character
Industrial Design to create Photo-real Vector Objects This tutorial teaches how to draw realistic objects in Flash vector art. Technological objects such as cell phones are a focus.
Comic Book Illustration in Flash > This Flash tutorial teaches how to draw traditional comic book style characters in Flash.
How to draw realistic Faces and Hair in Flash This is an advanced vector art tutorial. Organic, realistic faces can be tough with Flash. This tutorial will help smooth out your art to make it look realistic.
How to Draw Cartoon Heads > Learn how to draw TONS of different style heads in Flash.
How to draw cartoon bodies >Drawing techniques for creating bodies in Flash
Clothing Illustration, Learn how to draw clothes in Flash. This tutorial sets up various bodies and clothes are drawn overtop them.
Background Illustration techniques in Flash, Learn how to draw buildings and cities in perspective.
Cartoonist Drawing Package This package combines the Heads tutorial, Bodies tutorial, Clothing Tutorial and Background lesson.
Professional Flash Illustration Package This package includes the Retro animation lesson, comic book tutorial, advanced face illustration lesson.
Flash Animation Tutorials This page details all of our Flash animation tutorials.
How to Techniques Rotoscoping and Animating in Silhouette
Flash Character Animation Package > This page lists the courses for this bulk package
Atmosphere Animation Package > This page lists the courses for this bulk package
Flash Website Animation Package > This page lists the courses for this bulk package
Motion Tweening Learn how to create Water Ripple Effect.
How to animate image transitions in Flash
Page turning or Page Flipping Flash tutorial. This tutorial teaches a book-like page turning gallery in Flash.
Title and Bumper Animations. This course teaches how to design and animate title sequences in Flash
Walk and Run Cycles for Two Leg or Bipedal Creatures and Humans >
Learn How to Animate in Flash Four Leg Walk and Run Cycles for cats, dogs, horses, elephants >
Lip Syncing Techniques in Flash > This tutorial teaches how to include an audio track in your animation, and some interesting lip sync techniques.
Character Animation practice in Flash, Learn how to setup multi-shot animations for export to video.
Rain and Particles tutorial. Learn how to Animate Snow, sleet, rain, particles, fireworks, leaves, and other high number of small objects in Flash.
Fire tutorial. This Flash tutorial teaches how to animate realistic Flames and Fire.
How to Animate Smoke and Clouds in Flash Flash Tutorials for Animation FX. Create Water, Blasts, Smoke Puffs, Electricity, Light Streaks and More
Web Design Tutorials using Flash This section details our web design flash tutorials.
Dynamic Flash Web Design Course for loading swfs, jpgs, text externally This lengthy course teaches almost all aspects to creating a dynamic Flash site using Actionscript 2.
Flash Essentials Course for Web Design using Actionscript 2. This course teaches how to create a simple menu, navigation, gallery, along with many other Flash essentials like buttons and general scripting with Actionscript 2
Flash Essentials Course for Web Design using Actionscript 3. This course teaches how to create a simple menu, navigation, gallery, along with many other Flash essentials like buttons and general scripting with Actionscript 2
Dynamic Photo Gallery > This flash tutorial teaches how to use PHP query string variables, and a folder of sequentially named images to load into Flash
Tutorials for Simple Web Design courses in Flash > This course teaches how to create a simple dropdown menu, navigation system, and gallery.
Flash Buttons Tutorial, This course teaches how to connect Flash Buttons to Paypal or Flash buttons and Javascript.
Site Map in Flash This tutorial teaches how to create a dynamic site map style navigations.
How to create Banner Ads in Flash.
This course teaches how design and animate a Splash Page or Flash intro.
Flash Gaming tutorials > This page lists our current tutorials for how to create a Flash game.
Learn Basic Flash Gaming and Actionscript. This basic or starter course teaches a modern missile command type game.
Classic Gaming Tutorial This courses teaches how to program Classic or Retro style game like Mario Bros in Flash.
Games of Chance This Flash tutorial teaches how to program gambling style flash games.
Learn to program isometric style Flash RPG games or MMPOG style games in this tutorial.
Learn how to program Battleship or a typical Ship Guessing Board Game in Flash. The course teaches some basic AI, and user vs. CPU in the game.
This course teaches how to program overhead games in Flash
CartoonSmart.com Newsletter >for site updates and discount Flash lessons
Flash Actionscript Tutorials
Actionscript 3 Tutorials This page lists our Actionscript 3 tutorials.
Actionscript 2 or Actionscript 3 Drawing API Learn how to program dynamic shapes at runtime and apply filters to them.
Actionscript 3 based Music Player This AS3 based Flash tutorial teaches how to create an mp3 streaming music player using Flash. Create an internal playlist to play from song to song.
Actionscript 2 and XML in Flash to create an MP3 Player This AS2 based Flash tutorial teaches how to create an mp3 streaming music player using Flash. Create an external playlist with XML to play from song to song.
Product Display Techniques This Flash tutorial teaches how to create a click and drag, Pan and Zoom application.
How to program a Flash based PHP email form.
Learn Basic Actionscript 2. This page details our various Actionscript 2 tutorials.
Flash Based E-card This tutorial teaches how to make an ecard system using both Actionscript 2 and 3. Learn how to program a Flash application where visitors can email a customized card to their friends.
Tutorials on how to import Video (.flv) into Flash and make a video playlist using Actionscript 2
Program an Actionscript 3 based Video Player for FLV format, and import XML with Actionscript 3 This Flash tutorial teaches how to make a playlist for loading various videos into Flash. The videos are then streamed in and you can create custom playback buttons.
Program a complex email form using Actionscript 3 and PHP This Flash tutorial teaches how to make an intriquite email form. It also makes use of Flash cookies (or shared local objects) so if you user closes out of the form the data will get saved for later.
Learn how to use XML to Create a Flash Based RSS Reader - Learn how to parse RSS/XML files using Actionscript 3 and create your own custom readers for displaying information. You can also connect up the reader with your own RSS feeds or thousands of others
Learn how to Program an Actionscript 3 Darts Game This Flash tutorial course teaches how to program a dart game (either 501, 301, or Round the Clock. By learning how to program those 3 Flash games, you can created unlimited variations.
Blender Basics part 1, Blender Basics Part 2 Blender Basics Part 3 This series of courses teach the basics of using Blender a free 3D program. We also sell all three courses in a blender basics package
Character Design from sketching to Adobe Illustrator This course teaches sketching techniques on paper then how to import them into Illustrator.
Actionscript 3 based XML Gallery. This tutorial teaches how to make a Flash gallery that loads image dynamically based on an external xml file.
All About Components. This course covers CS3 User Interface Components with Actionscript 3
We also offer many lesson in Flash, PHP, and MySQL integration lessons > This package of Tutorials teach how to make a High Score Board, Guestbook, Members Login, or Blog. This course package teaches Ecards using Flash and a MYSQL database. Finally we also offer a customizable Flash Based Voting Polls using MYSQL and PHP
Dreamweaver Tutorials > These various courses focus on Dreamweaver 7, Dreamweaver 8 and Dreamweaver CS3. You'll learn the basics of Dreamweaver, CSS, PHP, Javascript Mail forms, Client Logins and more.
Located here is our Tutorial in the Basics of Flash Lite 1.1, FLash Lite 2.0,FLash Lite 2.1, Flash Lite 3.0
As usual we have Free Flash Tutorials, no sign up is need to check those out. And we now have section for Demo Flash tutorials. These are links to portions of our pay lessons that people can download.
You can also find the latest about our Flash tutorials at our CartoonSmart Blog
And if you're ever uncertain about which Flash, PHP, MYSQL, or Dreamweaver tutorial will suit you best, check out our interactive site map
We also have a page of new tutorials that have hit the site recently
The official Cartoonsmart forum is located here.
Our forum has categories for each of our Flash tutorials and Blender tutorials. Along with forum categories for students to post jobs, and also show off their design skills with various galleries for Flash files, image files, and movie files.