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Animating with Flash MX : Professional Creative Animation Techniques
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Author: Alex Michael
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0240519051
Publisher: Focal Press (November, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 424,452
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Less technique rather plug-n-play
The techniques in this book are extremely basic as well as superficial. There is very little "how or why" a technique (or script) is being used, which prevents you from customizing the examples for your own use beyond replacing the graphics with your own. There are many spelling and other grammatical errors. For instance, the error "optimisation" (should be "optimization") is found throughout the book. I was disappointed with this purchase quite a bit.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This is an amazing book
The first real computer book that looks at animation. It is well written, and delivers information in a very straight-forward way. But most of the front part of the book is very basic stuff. You have to read on to get into the guts of the world of professional animation. If using Flash MX for professional development, this is a must have. If you are just beginning, this is also a great book. The tutorials were easy and results were rewarding.
I have already, within a week tested my animation on a PDA (PocketPC), video, web, the only one I have still to do is interactive TV. I give this book top marks.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Full of Mistakes and Inaccuracies
I guess the title pretty much says it all. Oh, expect that over half of the example files I opened had already been completed. What's the point? To start from the end of the example and work backwards to undo what you're going to turn around and redo? I only got thru the first two or three chapters of this book before I returned it and bought "Macromedia FLash MX HOT Hands-On Training".
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