Online Tutorial: Tutvid.com

Here is a useful set of video tutorials for the Adobe suite

Creating Art from Data: Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

This morning as I was preparing lunches for the day I watched this TED talk by Aaron Koblin and was both amazed and inspired. For me this short talk was particularly interesting from the fact that it is based on making use of data, the meaningless stuff, that can be collected or is created by [...]

Flash AS2 Tutorial – Loading External SWF files

Loading external pages into MovieClip symbols also Loading external SWF’s into blankMC’s from a navigation/menu SWF Let’s start this one by opening the Top SWF created in the last tutorial. As you will remember I made three buttons whose _visible property was switched on and off according to what was rolled over. I am going [...]

Flash AS2 Tutorial – Making Roll-Over (drop-down) buttons

Making roll over (drop-down) buttons in Adobe Flash CS3 using ActionScript 2.0. Start a new Flash AS2 file and give the stage the size that fits where you wish it to go on the controller page eg. Make the layers on the timeline that you may need eg. Create yourself some buttons and place them [...]

Flash AS2 Tutorial – Creating a Container page

Making a container page – The page that is the root of all your pages! This tutorial is a basic overview of how to make an Adobe Flash movie that uses ActionScript 2.0 to load and contain external SWF files. This page is similar to the Index page of a Frame Based HTML site. Start [...]