i felt really honoured to be invited to speak on a panel at the Toronto Fan Expo this weekend alongside a number of other local industry pros. i couldn’t attend the event as a non-cosplayer, so my wife Cheryl whipped up a little something to satisfy my desperate desire for attention, and my [...] 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. This lesson [...] 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 programming language in [...] 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.) You [...] Keep Reading

“Fwitter”. Deal with it. Our Pull Twitter Updates Into Flash tutorials (Part 1 and Part 2) continue to be popular! A few folks were asking how i had taken my Twitter feed and rigged it so that people’s Twitter names and links were clickable. i promised to write tutorials on demand, so here we [...] Keep Reading