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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: $23.10
You Save: $16.85 (42%)
New (42) Used (5) from $23.10
Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 7521
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new book delivered from the UK in 10-14 days.
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| Customer Reviews:
 sometimes, it lacks some precision in instructions. September 21, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
great book, well printed, well illustrated,
good ideas to follow,
beautiful examples,
but sometimes it lacks precise instructions, maybe that it is related to the "two pages design" wich restrain the scope of each subject.
for example, I'm trying for hours to "distribute to layers" two groups of strokes on two keyframe (like as said on page 127 , step 3) and I can't because the author don't explain exactly how to do this uncommon task.
I give 3 stars because I don't like this restictive "two pages design",
then it's a book I recommand otherwise, but not for the beginner.
 Perfect! September 21, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Really get you going on exactly what you need to get started! Hands on examples that get you started on real world tasks.
 Is everything I was expecting and more... September 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've had been a fan of Chris style and work since a couple of years ago, and I always get impressed with every new animation of Chris over the time. In this time Chris presents a book that covers many of his best works in all his career, and shows you, using clear explanations and lot of pictures how to achieve this impressive animations.
Personally speaking, I liked so much this book, because contains a lot of best practices and outstanding tricks in Flash animation, tricks that will help you to get impressive results in your animations by using subtle Flash techniques.
I own it, and its mine... August 31, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
i am one of the biggest fans of Chris Georgenes, only because of his style of work and attitude. I pre-ordered this book, and i thank God to actually have it. This book is One of the most valuable resources to me, as it has everything that you would ever need to become a known-seasoned professiona digimator. Right from the first page to its end you will start experiencing a speciall kind of magic in your hands, you just want to get started on the computer and make fun animations. This book covers every expert level technique, that essentially you will have to have. Chris is a great instructor and a great talented individual and Adobe should be proud to have him on their ship.
I wish it should be only me to have this book ;) ...
Awesome practical book August 31, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I first come across Chris' work by accident while searching for some tutorials on flash cartoon animation. I grew to love his tutorials featured in the Adobe(previously Macromedia) site and his personal keyframer.com site. He has this straight forward practical approach to building an animation. As the saying goes, "There are many ways to kill a cat". Chris, shows you the most efficient approach to working with Flash. I was therefore simply overjoyed to learn he was publishing a book.
Well, I finally got my copy, and this was worth the wait. Chris takes a tutorial based approach to everything you need to animate cartoons in Flash. This along with "Flash Cartoon Animation: Learn from the Pros" prove to be an invaluable resource(believe me, they are very few books out there that do the topic justice) on the topic in my opinion.
Chris, avoids getting into the nitty grity stuff on how to work with Flash and dives straight into the topic of how to animate cartoons in Flash. I was surprised by the rich color in the pages given the price of the book!
Perhaps my favorite part of the book is the tons of resources on the CD, everything from the sample source files which will help drive the lessons home and the free/trial softwares and Flash extensions that will help save time.
So two thumbs way up on this one!!
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