It’s finally here! GreenSock has just released the GreenSock Animation Platform v12 BETA (GSAP v12). The big news is that GSAP has now been ported to JavaScript. I know tons of you have been waiting for this. I whipped up a fun litte demo using all your favorite and some new features of this robust...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I have an exciting update for you regarding GreenSock’s SlowMo ease. There is a new feature called yoyoMode which allows you to easily synchronize fade, de-blur and other effects with positional SlowMo tweens. yoyoMode configures a SlowMo ease to tween to a target value, hold throughout the linear portion...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I am hugely excited to introduce you to the new SlowMo ease! This ease is a total game-changer and will make it insanely easy to create animations that were previously very tedious and awkward. The SlowMo ease allows you to get super smooth transitions into and out of steady...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I’m thrilled to introduce to you my AS3 GrowAndColorizeItem class. Can you guess what it does? 🙂 Come take a peak inside and I’ll show you how easy it is to implement in your own projects.Read More

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

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

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