This movie requires Flash Player 9 I was “walking by” a tv that was showing American Idol the other night and was mesmerized by this mega screen of pulsing tiles that was behind the performers. I was instantly compelled to try to build the effect with Flash. With a little timer, loop, conditional logic and...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here is a continuation of our easy infinite scroller. The focus in part 2 is making the code more flexible and dynamic. Notice in the swf above that 4 items are moving at a time as opposed to just one. We are going to dig deeper into the “lob...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here is a fun little technique to get your brains spinning. This simple scroll technique can be used to scroll any number of items in a continuous loop. Use the “toggle mask” button in the swf above to see how the end clips are being lobbed off and sent...Read More

I’ve crammed what I could easily have stretched into a month’s worth of posts into 1 handy list. I know for certain there is something in here that you had no idea about and will find extremely useful. This claim is backed by a 90 day money-back guarantee.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here is an effect I get asked about quite a bit. Instead of highlighting objects that are being rolled over, we de-emphasize the items we are NOT rolling over. Confused? Just rollOver the icons in the swf above. Want to learn how? come on in.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Have you ever tried to tween the tint of some text that has a drop shadow filter only to find that the shadow changed color too. YUCK! This tutorial will show you how to use the TweenMax hexColors plugin to tween the textColor property of a dynamic TextField. This...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 The first in my “What I Learned Today” category. This is one of those things I can’t believe I didn’t know sooner. With TweenLite and easeParams you can pass in additional ease values that will allow you to fine tune your Elastic and Back eases. I’ve always loved ease:Back.easeOut...Read More

Here is just a little overview of a cool effect that appears to use a mask. At the heart of this effect is simple Invert blend mode. We get a little loopy with an Array and TweenLite to make it super dynamic. This movie requires Flash Player 9Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Click the buttons to see Fred traverse along his simple path. TimelineMax allows you to create amazing animation sequences. With the addLabel() and tweenTo() methods you can easily navigate to any part of a timeline. This simple example will open the door to a world of opportunities with much...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here is a super slick effect that takes very little effort. Plug 3 tweens into TimelineMax and you’re off to the races! Forget the Flash timeline and those horrible new Motion Tweens. We’ll touch on some extra goodies like the immediateRender property and visible plugin. Watch The VideoRead More