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LiveMotion for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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If your new to animation and web authoring, this book will be a big plus for you. If you are looking for advanced material on LiveMotion, I would recommend "Adobe LiveMotion Classroom in a Book."

In this title, the authors are perhaps a little too cute, in a manner that speaks down to it's readers. It begins with. "Are you a real greenhorn?," moves to a web-speak glossary (including chatroom shorthand) and wraps up with a suggestion to surf the web to study good design (not bad advice, excepting there's just so much bad design to make this a blanket tip).

Of course in between these, the authors do indicate how to use the application, giving accurate descriptions of how to use each function in a relatively simple way.

So again, a good book with the caveat that it is a beginner's title, not for intermediate or advanced web authors who are adding Livemotion to their tool box and want to get into the more complex aspects of this tool.

If you're already familiar with photoshop, illustrator, and have some familiarity of flash or vector animation, this book will only have limited usage. There might be about 50 pages of actual material you might need to know as this book spends a lot of time covering basic elements (graphic/drawing), and you have to wait until chapter 13 to get to the animation. Overall, it's not a bad book, but if you're already familiar with graphics and animation, then I suggest you look elsewhere. If you're new to this whole field, then it's a good start.

I am new to both Live Motion and to web animation/design. I have read everything I can get my hands on, from information on the internet to other Live Motion books. This is THE best information I've read to date. The instructions are very clear, it is easy to find specific information by going through either the index or table of contents, the training is easily applied to your own projects and, as you go through the exercises, you gain invaluable experience with the program. It's definitely a book that any multimedia designer will want near by at all times!

In my humble opinion, this book is useful to both the new and experienced designer.