Overview
Flash MX Motion Graphics covers a variety of motion graphic techniques, taking you from planning and gathering materials through executing, fine-tuning, and adjusting the finished piece. It also features interviews with 10 Flash artists from around the world, including Hillman Curtis, Eric Jordan, and Todd Purgason.This book focuses on skills to harness motion graphics in Flash MX, including:
Digitizing video, and capturing, saving, and editing sound
Incorporating text animation and bitmap images
Working around constraints such as file sizes and the limitations of the computer screen
Adding interactive elements
Using Photoshop and 3D programs to create background images
The author's website experiments with the various interactive possibilities of Flash and motion graphics and is featured throughout the book. It's based on the concept of introducing an off-line exhibition to the Internet, which serves as a personal exhibition space for Seol Euna.
About the Author
Seol Euna is a world-renowned Flash artist who was a finalist in the motion graphics division of The Flash Film Festival 2001, San Francisco. She is currently acting as a judge for the Macromedia WWWhat Awards. Commercial sites by Seol Euna include the sites for the movies, My Sassy Girl and Wanee & Junal.
Synopsis
Flash motion graphics is the art of creating a Flash experience using bitmaps, vector images, and extensive interaction.
Flash MX Motion Graphics, a new, full-color book by award-winning Flash designer Euna Seol, is the first title to focus on this rapidly evolving approach.
Writing on the latest version of Flash, Euna Seol emphasizes Flash web design, rather than just Flash functions. Throughout the book's 300+ pages, she uses a combination of essays, interviews, step-by-step tutorials, and striking images to make motion graphics with Flash exciting and accessible, while inspiring you to use these techniques to explore your own creativity.
The enclosed CD features Flash demo software, tutorial sample code, and Flash movies.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewFlash is emerging as a powerful medium for creating new experiences, and few Flash designers have gone as far down this road as Euna Seol. To see some of her deeply evocative work, visit www.seoleuna.com (it’ll really be worth your time). To learn how to use Flash to create powerful experiences of your own, read her book Flash MX Motion Graphics.
Seol shares hard-won techniques for arranging and optimizing sound, for achieving clean video resolution with minimum file size, for using text effectively. But this isn’t the place to learn Flash features in isolation. What makes the book special is Seol’s focus on bringing bitmaps, vectors, sound, and interaction together to deepen the experience you’re building.
The heart of the book is a series of Seol’s own projects, from Christmas cards to complete web sites: projects that create rhythmic visuals which won’t let go of you; “applications” that “evaluate” how similar you are to the author; reenactments of video scenes using stills and low-bandwidth effects; and much more. If Seol’s work isn’t enough, the book also contains interviews with several remarkable Flash designers, from Todd Purgason to Hillman Curtis. It will inspire you. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.