Drawing repeating elements in Flash can be a real asspain. This tutorial will teach you a valuable trick with the timeline to help you draw things like starbursts, buzzsaws, clock faces, and repeating elements along a path. Check out this vector graphic of a sun. Sure, you can individually copy and rotate all those flames [...] Keep Reading

Prerequisites: Basic Flash Project Setup Drawing with Strokes and Fills Groups and Layers Begin Flash wasn’t always this difficult to get your head around. Before it was hijacked by codemonkeys, the software was a very capable animation program. The focal point of Flash animation is the Timeline, and all the wonderful things it can do. [...] 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

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