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| How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3 | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Georgenes
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 5757
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0240520580
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
EAN: 9780240520582
ASIN: 0240520580
Publication Date: August 6, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 The First Book to Read for Flash Animation August 3, 2008
This book is a wonderful resource for the animation student or casual amateur. Chock full of useful knowledge, Chris covers several key areas of the animation process, such as: character animation, different drawing styles, painting techniques and more. Plus, he shows you a bunch of tips and tricks to add that extra flare and even delves into exporting animations into suitable formats for different applications: like tv/video or the internet, all the while explaining it in a way that's casual and understandable. All in all, a fantastic book to learn from: especially if you want to make internet shorts.
P.S. It also comes with a CD with source files to go along with the teaching and a bunch of extra goodies to streamline your work. Excellent!
The Flash Animator's Cheat Sheet June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the most comprehensive flash references I have seen. Being an animator and illustrator for a small interactive company, this book gives you priceless tips and tricks on how to save valuable time and meet those never ending deadlines. Great job Chris. I'm sure all flash animators old and new could benefit from this little gem.
 Good for learning time line animation June 14, 2008
On the positive side the author is a excellent artist & animator. You will be able to see how high quality animation is put together in Flash. But I agree don't get this book - at least by it self - if you are a complete nube, it doesn't cover the foundation basics. Also it is rather weak on scripting, the author had to go to the bullpen and get a second author to cover the subject, the book only gives the subject the briefest coverage, plus I have found problems - files missing - that are needed to complete the lessons.
How to Cheat in Flash CS3 June 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is outstanding. Clear and vast, goes direct to the point: how to make art in the computer.
How To Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3,Indispensable. A Critical Review. May 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
How To Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3, Indispensable. A Critical Review.
I love this book for both what it teaches and the way the book is presented as a quick and fun way to master the software Flash (CS3).
How To Cheat...Flash, is the third of 3 essential books I've bought and am highly recommending for learning, advancing in Adobe Creative Suite 3. The first, the foundation book, CS3 For Dummies, is the essential resource book for learning what CS3 can do. Dummies differs from the more practical books of How to Cheat and the Adobe Illustrator CS3, WOW! book, in that it's function is only to layout all of the tools and how the tools are used in the Adobe CS3 Premium set. That's it. This is where books specifically for the use of showing real world examples are for and How To Cheat in Flash CS3 is phenomenal at it.
To say that an entire production suite that enables one to create artwork. Create animation. Repair photos. Design brochures. Create and publish websites--all of this is possible (and more with this Design Suite.), but there is a steep learning curve with all of the applications, if you're fully interested in doing really amazing work: this is why all three books are essential.
If you want to learn how do animation, whether in Flash or a similar program, this book is for you. It is as much a book about taking illustrations and converting them to computer illustrations and then to animated figures as it is about learning how the Flash software can take your ideas and make them a reality.
As I mentioned in my review of the Wow book for Illustrator CS3, How to Cheat... should be considered an addendum to Dummies. It is fully illustrated (the illustrations are worth the price alone!) and it also includes a fully-stocked cd room that accompanies the text. This book differs in style from the others in that author, Chris Georgenes, takes your basic illustrations and demonstrates basic routines. Then, Georgenes, builds on those elementary to more advanced projects. But, these projects are very attractive to the eyes and fun to read.
For graphic designers, illustrators, film animators, YouTube enthusiasts, marketing managers, web developers, novice website builders, this software and this book are indispensable.
Strongly recommended.
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