lynda.com free 1 week trial
So, you want to follow along some of my Flash lessons? Get 7 days of free unlimited access to lynda.com. Follow that link and get 1 week of access, see how you like it. If your time is short, I...
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lynda course: hand drawn animation in flash
My fifth course for Lynda.com is online. It’s called ‘Hand Drawn Animation in Flash’. If you don’t have a Lynda.com membership, you can get a free 1-week trial here, and watch it. A preview of the two...
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flash palette: a custom improvement!
It’s not news that the default palette for Flash is dreadful. There’s not much that you can do with this, other than pretend it’s not there: I made my own early in the 2000s; it’s much more subdued...
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lynda course: migrate from Flash to Harmony
My latest course for Lynda.com has gone online: ‘Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony’ It teaches a Flash animator how their favourite Flash tools and processes correspond to the Harmony...
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RIP, adobe flash (sorta)
By now, many will have heard about Adobe’s decision to bid farewell to Flash, at least in name. The following are my thoughts, as they relate to animators and designers, the second class citizens of...
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animateCC: creating a complete scene
A couple of students requested a Flash/Animate course that didn’t just show how to animate a character, but the process for creating and animating a complete scene – everything from background,...
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storyboarding in flash/animateCC
I was inspired to do this course after working on a project that was animated in Flash/AnimateCC. Unfortunately, the board artists drew the boards on paper, instead of natively in Flash/AnimateCC....
View Articlemy animation reel (2018)
I finally updated my reel (a necessary chore). The new reel includes many samples from my Lynda/Linkedin courses. The wizard animation at the start was created to demonstrate my ’21 foundations of...
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adobe alternatives
A student recently asked me about alternatives to the Adobe CC suite, given the current economic crisis. A good question! I recently canceled my CC subscription, as $600 is too much while things are...
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