In 1994, Hasselhoff was scheduled to perform a concert on pay-per-view from Atlantic City. The concert was expected to help reignite his singing career in the United States. However, on the night of the concert, O.J. Simpson was involved in a police chase in southern California. Viewership of the concert was significantly lower than expected...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 In today’s Fireside Chat I have a few tips that will greatly help AS3 beginners or those migrating from AS2. Sit back and relax as I walk you through a few ways of optimizing your code and creating functionality that was impossible with AS2. These tips are sure to...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Hey folks, this one is a real doozy. I’m going to show you how to create tweens that travel variable distances but maintain the same speed. Want your spaceship to travel the 100 pixels per second whether its moving 10 pixels or 1000? Come on in.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Need a solution that allows your buttons to stay clicked or highlighted in an active state? Meet the Sticky Nav where the buttons stay clicked until another button is pressed.Read More

Here’s just a little extra sleekness for the previous Interactive Flash Map project. We are going to nuke the crap out of that “description” movie clip with all the keyframes and labels. I will unleash the power of Dynamic TextFields and demonstrate how they can effortlessly streamline our workflow.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here I show you how to take some really flat and boring vector art and give it a little extra flair. The ladybug’s rounded shell / wings are enhanced with Gradient Glow and DropShadow filters. Pretty nifty effect which doesn’t take long at all.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Oh My! Do you see that awesome color effect? Watch closely and check out how just the car gets colorized with that killer blend. The trick here involves combining 2 methods of masking: Layer Mask and ActionScript Bitmap Masking. Don’t fret, I’ll show you how!Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 In this video I discuss how to use the Frame and FrameLabel plugins of TweenLite/Max. These plugins come in very handy when you want to tween a Flash timeline. You can change the speed of a timeline, add easing and also play in reverse!Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I find myself more and more watching tv and enjoying the text treatments in the commercials. HGTV’s latest promo builds are pretty cool. I took a shot at doing them in Flash.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 This video tutorial using Flash CS4 gives an overview of the many ways you can create buttons in Flash. With Flash there are always multiple ways of achieving something which is great… but it can also add a lot of confusion. Let’s break it down and answer the age...Read More