This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here we have a very cool effect that, although fairly simple, is a bit difficult to do with basic timeline motion tweens. By relying on some core ActionScript fundamentals we can hammer it out in no time. The important thing to note is that the transition is non-linear, meaning...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Ok, I was just going to smack a little sample file into a post on the GreenSock forums but figured it would only take a few extra minutes to share it with all of you. Here are 2 fairly basic approaches to creating animated lines with ActionScript 3 Drawing...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I was recently asked by a youtube subscriber how I made the animation I used in the TwitterSpitter. Here is a quick code walk-through. I think most of you will do fine just grabbing the source files. Enjoy.Read More

The final thorn in my side when building the TwitterSpitter was something totally out of my hands. Twitter limits how many times you can request data from its services to 150 times per hour. This on its own is manageable but I had a problem where my rate limit was mysteriously diminishing at a very...Read More

When working with Twitter I foolishly got pretty far into my development without testing how my applet would work once it was hosted on a web server. You see Flash is very open to loading data from any domain when you are testing locally. If you have a swf on yoursite.com that needs to load...Read More

Ok, now that you’ve seen the trouble I had with Loading XML from Twitter, I’m going to talk a bit about making sure the images you try to load have valid file names. This trick can come in handy for many things.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 See that nifty little Flash/Twitter Widget? It simply loads the profile images of a Twitter user’s followers. It took me about 2 hours to get working 95% and 10 hours to make it 99% bullet proof. The following is a discussion on things you should look out for when...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here we go, the last technique in my Bullet-Proof TimelineMax Transitions series. This technique allows you to have a unique animate out sequence for each section as well as do the reverse from the previous technique. Notice in the swf above that if you click to go to a...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 This Bullet-Proof TimelineMax Transition which I call the Reverse Out, tells the current section’s build sequence to play quickly in reverse before introducing the next section. Click a few buttons in the swf above to get the idea. To learn more jump on in.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here is an example of the first Bullet-Proof TimlineMax Page Transition. This technique allows you to jump directly to the beginning animation of any section/page you are introducing from any point in the timeline. This is the leanest and meanest of the three techniques I will be discussing. The...Read More