Customer Reviews

Flash! Creative Web Animation

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I was (desperately) looking for a more advanced tool to help me add to my knowledge of animation. If you already know programs like Photoshop or Illustrator or any other graphics programs, then this is not the book for you. Basically, it just teaches the tool bars and other options. Not very helpful for those of us who want to go further.

Although the book show the basics very well, as I mastered all the steps, I sought for more advanced steps. That's where the book ended. No advanced stuff, no detailed descriptions of various uses. Only very basic drawing and animation, nothing like what you see out on the web. I'd like to see more stuff on Flash.

I recomend that you dont buy any book on flash 4 because it's not necesary all you have to know is in the interactive help files an examples provided with the software

The basics were explained well but about half way through the book, Mr. Plant got very lazy. Some exercises weren't clear and the examples on the CD were a joke. If you like learning programs by book, you really don't have many other options than this book. Maybe try the lessons that come w/ Flash.

I think that it has great explanation however, it doesn't provide to many programming details or examples. Besides that I think is great.

The book starts off with the basics and covers quite a lot of useful stuff if u want to learn Flash then I recommend this book to anyone. From starting from scratch to people who already know Flash but want to learn a few extra bits this is for you.

this is a good book to get the basics of flash 3, but i think they spent too much time on it.

they also should have REALLY spent more time into explaining how you can put everything all together into a nice website, with more of the special effects-

it would be great if they had a flash 3 book for advanced users where they would get more into the exmples and applications/demos with good explinations.

The generic title, Flash Creative Web Animation, tends to be misleading since it only deals with Flash II. Flash III has been released and many menus etc. have been changed. It is too bad that the software changes are so far ahead of the books publication. It heavy on tutorial exercises and contains a CD with a Flash II trial software and many examples..

As a veteran web developer, I found the book strong in explaining how to use the fundamental tools of flash, (the pen, ink bottle, lasso, etc.) However, the book didn't give much attention to building a flash site with multiple links to multiple flash movies and creating complex button behaviors. I eventually got what I needed, but it wasn't from this book - it was from another Flash developer.

It does not take long to understand why masters of Flash 3 are so sought after in the web site industry. Darrel Plant introduces the Flash 3 platform in a way that will have Illustrator users begging for copies. Although I am not much of a designer or artist, I was able to pick up on nearly everything that was explained without having to re-read passages (which seems to be quite commonplace for me with other books). My Director background did help, but this book will teach anyone willing to learn the fundamentals the essentials and advanced techniques of Flash 3.