This movie requires Flash Player 9 The swf above illustrates 32 BlitMasks running simultaneously. The slick performance absolutely stomps any other method available for moving so many bitmaps at the same time. Silky, smooth and totally seamless! Remember those days of trying to do a seamless scrolling loop in Flash? You would make 2 copies...Read More

I had 20 minutes to kill last night while waiting for Google Analytics to update. I asked myself, “Self, wouldn’t it be fun to just play around and try to hammer the crap out of the Flash Player?” This movie requires Flash Player 9 I replied, “yes”.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here I have a mash-up of 3 very useful techniques: Create an array of all children inside any Movie Clip or DisplayObjectContainer Shuffle that array Animate all the items in that array in sequence And oh yeah, no instance names.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Just wanted to provide you guys with a sound starting point for building grids and more importantly animating them in clever ways. I’m going to do a quick rundown in the video and leave you with a few files to poke around in. I’m sure you will find a...Read More

The Interactive Peacock Challenge is over. Got some great submissions and, as always, some folks went above and beyond. Come on in to see how its done.Read More

It’s time for another ActionScript 3 Code Challenge. Oops, make that AS3 HTML5 WEBGL SVG CSS3 JavaScript Code Challenge! Can your tech build this? This movie requires Flash Player 9 Yup, that’s right, I welcome you all to take a stab.Read More

In continuing this image loading series, I would like to show you how you can create an XMLLoader that loads a single XML file that contains all your ImageLoader data. Once the XML loads, the ImageLoaders will automatically load. This is one of the most powerful tools in the whole GreenSock family.Read More

Just for fun I just thought I’d share with you where my Flash journey began. This movie requires Flash Player 9 file size:48kb 13 years later I still think this is pretty cool and quite frankly I can’t think of another technology that would make creating something like this as easy or fun. I would...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I’m pleased to present the first 2 parts of my first series in my Loadermax series. Yes, you read that correctly, or at least I typed it correctly:) We are going to start learning about LoaderMax by walking through a few examples of how to load images with the...Read More

Here it is folks, just a little intro-teaser to get you excited about all the fun we are going to have loading external assets with GreenSock’s LoaderMax. Today I’m just going to give you a little background and a startling code comparison to show you how much you can streamline the wildly verbose native AS3...Read More