Flash 5 Cartooning [With CDROM]

By Mark Clarkson

Flash 5 Cartooning is a stunning, full color book that reveals scores of tips and techniques for building great cartoons, regardless of your artistic experience. Everything from cartooning fundamentals to advanced Flash techniques like ActionScripting and selling your work online is covered here, in this unique guide to creating exciting Flash cartoons. Author Mark Clarkson dives deep into the key topics cartooners need to know, with an emphasis on things like interactivity, special visual and audio effects, timing (it's critical to a good joke, you know), cartoon physics, and more A free companion CD-ROM is packed with sample cartoons from the book, additional cartooning material, and product tryouts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764535471
• ISBN13: 9780764535475
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Missing files available at markclarkson.com

Inevitably, in the complex process of putting a book like Flash 5 Cartooning together, a few bits and pieces get mislabled, misprinted or, far worse, left out altogether. As any mistakes, omissions and missing bits come to the attention of the author, they'll be posted at markclarkson.comThe file Mr. Carroll was missing "Labels and Buttons.FLA" is among those available. If any other readers have noticed missing files, please contact Mr. Clarkson at markclarkson.com

Excellent Book! Thanks Mark...

This book is great if you are familiar with the flash interface and can do basic things in it. For learning to write and animate cartoons in Flash it's a must. I think Mark covered just about everything you need to know for cartooning in this book and alot more. I've read just about every tutorial on Flash 5 on the web. I've been designing a website and was having trouble with "movie clips" and "tell target" (after all the tutorials) until I read this book. If you're new to flash >>> get it! Even if you aren't real interested in cartooning there is alot of good information for beginners here. I'll use it as a reference book for years to come. Thanks again Mark... you da' man!

If you want to 'Toon' with Flash 5, BUY THIS BOOK!

I've bought just about every Flash tutorial there is, but this is the BEST one to get once you get the absolute basics down. It won't tell you how to arrange your workspace like some beginner books will (get 'Foundation Flash' for that - great place to start & get up to speed in a hurry), but if you've even spent a couple months messing around with Flash on your own, you're ready for this book. If you want to cartoon with Flash & even do movies with it, this book is a must have. There are a ton of Flash books out there that can get you going in Actinscript, learning the basics like tweening, etc., but this is written in a very concise manner that takes you through the technical aspects of how Flash can be used to create cartoons & movies (like the ones you've probably already gotten from someone in your email or seen at places like AtomFilms), yet makes it so easy to understand that you'll wonder why no one wrote a book like this 2 years ago.I only started with Flash a couple months ago, and I'm already cranking out cartoons like nobodies business because of this book.Hats off to the author, Mark Clarkson! THANK YOU for writing this book!

No kidding, this is a must have book!

You know a book is going to be an excellent experience for you when the list of reference books are books that you already own. That's my experience with Mark Clarkson's "Flash 5 Cartooning."What Clarkson does is to provide clear and consise instructions and tutorials on how to create animations using the flash toolset. More than just a "how to use flash" book, Flash 5Cartooning, illuminates the "how" of animation productions that can be used from a one-person studio to a production studio of dozens of people.I especially enjoyed and learned a lot from the "bobsey Model" chapter (chapt 9) and chapt 11 (layout, style and camera moves) that inspired me to try some of the things mentioned in those chapters. And there's gems scattered through out this entire book. This is not a book to teach you cartooning (the list in the preface has many books for that), rather, this is a book to take your static cartoons and breathe some "12 frames per second" life to them. There are a few rare books that I will tell friends that if they buy it and don't like it, I'll buy it back. Flash 5 Cartooning joins the ranks of those books.This book now occupies the space next to my copy of Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation book(ISBN # 1-56010-084-2). Higher praise, I don't know how to give!

Money very well spent

This is a must have book for Flash users, or those interested in cartooning. I waited with great anticipation for this book. You will not be disappointed, and neither was I. BUY IT NOW! Mr. Clarkson provides great info on cartooning technique, flash methods, and lots of resources to learn from. He is a great tech writer. But the CD-rom that comes with the book is the real treat. The whole book on CD, great demos, and example Flash cartoons!!! The book is easy to read, and the pictures/diagrams , (which there are lots of), are easy to follow and add to the points he makes. There are dozens of Flash books out there, but this one is the best.