Prerequisites: Basic Flash Project Setup Drawing with Strokes and Fills Begin Let’s learn how to prevent Flash from doing the automatic cutting and melding that we saw in the Drawing with Strokes and Fills lesson. There are three different ways to “protect” your shapes from interfering with each other. We’re going to look at two [...] Keep Reading

Prerequisites: Basic Flash Project Setup Begin Let’s learn to draw with Flash! Flash is not the most feature-rich vector drawing package available. During its development lifecycle, the creators of Flash listened more closely to programmers than artists. As a result, many new features for artists fell by the wayside, while Flash developed a (near) fully-featured [...] Keep Reading

We were at TCAF – the Toronto Comic Arts Festival – this past weekend, showing off a new Spellirium prototype, thanks to the generous support of the Hand Eye Society. Full Frontal Nerdity (thanks to Paul Forest for the photo) We ran two different pieces on the monitor. The first was an art reel, with [...] Keep Reading

Prerequisites: none. Begin So you want to start creating games with Adobe Flash? Here’s the very first step. You’ll need two pieces of software: Adobe Flash, and a program to in which to write your code. (Code is a list of instructions you give to the computer to make it bend to your steely will.) [...] Keep Reading

Many folks have been voicing their concerns about Adobe’s Flash player plugin. Without it, there would be no advertising on the Internet. We could play phenomenally fun games written in Javascript, and all our video would be delivered via HTML5. And finally, FINALLY, our whirring laptop fans would be quieted, and our computers would only [...] Keep Reading