Examples for Chapter 7

Additonal Flash material can be found at the support site for Digital Media Tools under Illustrations>Flash and Exercise Files>Flash. Direct links to examples illustrated in Digital Multimedia are provided below.

All the chapters of Digital Media Tools, 3rd Edition, including the Flash CS3 chapter, are available as full colour PDF documents from the MacAvon Media Downloads Store.

• p. 253, Combined Stop-Frame and Digital Animation

  The movie extract illustrated in still form in Figure 7.1. The painting on the rock was done with stop-frame techniques, the ship and ocean scenes were composited digitally. This clip is taken from Jenny Chapman's award-winning experimental animation "Terra Australis" ©1997.

• p. 254, Animating a Layer's Position

  A working version of this animation in the form of an animated GIF can be found on the support site for Digital Media Tools, under Illustrations>Photoshop. The animated GIF is the bottom of the three images.

• p. 256 and p. 271, Animated GIF vs SWF

  
  The two versions of the leaping dolphin illustrate the difference between using an animated GIF (top) and a Flash movie (bottom) for the same animation. (The difference in size is simply the result of our making the two versions at different sizes. It is not connected with the fact that one is Flash and the other animated GIF.)

• p. 264, Non-Linear Motion Interpolation

  A working version of the Flash animation illustrated in Figure 7.8 can be found on the support site for Digital Media Tools under Illustrations>Flash.

• p. 265, Motion Path

  A working version of the Flash animation illustrated in Figure 7.10 can be found on the support site for Digital Media Tools under Illustrations>Flash.

• p. 269, Instances

  A working version of the Flash animation illustrated in Figure 7.12 can be found on the support site for Digital Media Tools under Illustrations>Flash.

• p. 271, Animated Symbols

  A slightly different version of the Flash animation illustrated in Figure 7.14 can be found on the support site for Digital Media Tools under Illustrations>Flash. Note the presence of several instances of the dolphin symbol shown above.

• p. 275, Time-Varying Colour Adjustment

  Here you can see how the varying colour adjustment shown in Figure 7.17 becomes a time-based effect as the animation plays.

• p. 276, A Temporal Effect

  This effect, illustrated in Figure 7.18, was created in After Effects. We have re-encoded it as Flash Video for your convenience, but it is not a Flash effect.