This movie requires Flash Player 9 This quick video demonstration will show you how to make a super easy interactive map with Flash. This is the super basic beginner version.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 So here is just quick tip on getting MovieClips that have their alpha adjusted to look better. The alpha bug is most apparent during fades. Watch the video and see.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Suppose your client gives you a photo of a phone with it’s keyboard expanded and they want you to animate it opening and closing. In a perfect world you have 2 images. One of the phone and one of just the keyboard. Not today.  By using the pen tool...Read More

Sometime’s you have to start small. In order to harness the true power of the Pen Tool in Flash you have to obey a few strict rules. Watching this video should take some of the mystery and frustration out of using this annoying tool.Read More

This HD video is a fun little demonstration showing how easy it can be to create a highly effective logo with just two of Flash’s built-in drawing tools. Along the way you will see how to use guides, a few keyboard shortcuts, and shape combining techniques to enhance your workflow.Read More

This quick video tutorial will show you how to use Safari’s Activity Window to see all the files loaded into your browser. Using this technique you can literally grab any image that is dynamically loaded into a swf. Works great for also grabbing xml, javascript and css from any website that you view!Read More

This video tutorial will show you how to make a Flash movie loop a certain number of times. With very basic ActionScript you can literally count how many times your animation has played and stop when the counter reaches a certain point.Read More

So you’ve created the perfect button with cool up over and down states. Now you want to use that button many times, but OH NO! you’re text is in the button! No Worries, Duplicate Symbol to the rescue!Read More

This video explores they mystery behind those symbols that Flash automatically creates when you try to tween the untweenable. Watch this video to learn why Flash does this and most importantly what you can do to avoid it!Read More