Why this Flash animation book?
Professional instructor and owner of  CartoonSmart.com, Justin Dike teaches a decade’s worth of tips and tricks for Adobe Flash animation using high resolution images, interactive galleries, video examples, and (duh) full color pages throughout! In recent years, Cartoon Smart has ventured into iOS programming and App development, but Justin founded the site to teach people to be “smart” with “cartoons”. Hence, the name. So he’s taking a break from the heady logic of game-making to return to CartoonSmart’s roots with a new animation course in a brand new format.
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This book was written using iBooks Author, so it is specially formatted for your iBooks App on the iPad, iPad mini or your Mac. Don’t have an iPad or Mac? That’s okay, the PDF version has almost as many of the great features below…
- High definition images
- Bookmarks
- Highlight and add notes
- Searchable text
- Embedded videos
- Interactive images
- Tab-to-reveal the glossary definition on keywords
- Multi-Touch features (pinch to show page thumbnails, Table of Contents, etc)
- Hyperlinks to outside sources
- Free updates, via push notification within iBooks App
PDF Features (alternate version)
This version of the book can be viewed on any device that supports PDF. That could be your desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or whatever (Kindle, Android, iOS device, etc). None of the beauty is lost in the PDF version…
- High definition images
- Bookmarks (might vary depending on your e-reader)
- Highlight and add notes (might vary depending on your e-reader)
- Links to streaming videos
- Searchable text
- Hyperlinks to outside sources
- Glossary
- Page thumbnails (typical of most e-readers)
- Free updates, via email notification
Table of Contents
Free! – Ch.1 Introductions
- 1.1 – Why Are You Learning From Me?
- 1.2Â – What is Great Fake Animation?
- 1.3Â – What Program Are We Using?
- 1.4Â – Resources
Free! – Ch.2 Motion Posters
- 2.1 – Assets InvestigationÂ
- 2.2Â – Introduction to FlashÂ
- 2.3Â – Key-Framing Freeway LightsÂ
- 2.4Â – Masks and TweensÂ
- 2.5Â – Smoky Shape TweensÂ
- 2.6Â – City NoiseÂ
- 2.7Â – Adding and Altering SoundsÂ
- 2.8Â – Title Animation (and a blink)Â
- 2.9Â – Fade Out…In StyleÂ
- 2.10Â – Long-Play Video Bonus
Updates itself magically.
Like those nifty iOS Apps on your phone, iBooks notify you when an update is available. Just think about all the past reference books you’ve got collecting dust. Year by year getting further and further out of date. iBooks pretty much got that problem licked.
Lovingly Illustrated by the Author
High definition illustrations mark the beginning of every section header and other places throughout the entire book.
Available from the iBookstore.
Read all 100 pages in it’s native iBook format for your iPad or Mac.  Just like iOS apps, iBook updates are free.
Get it for free from the iBookstore ÂIf you don’t have a Mac, iPad or iPad mini, we also offer an alternate PDF version.
Get the PDFIf you country does not support the iBookstore, you can download the free iBook directly from us…
Download the iBook From UsYou can find all the resources and example movies referenced in the book available at
Resources / Movies