What is Flash Catalyst? Adobe Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding. Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® into functional user interfaces. Create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product Publish a finished project as a SWF file [...]

JUNE 1, 2009, VENTURA, CA—lynda.com, the award-winning provider of online training and education for consumers, businesses, and schools, today announced that it is offering its latest online training video course, Flash Catalyst Beta Preview with Mordy Golding, completely free to the public. The course is being released on June 1, 2009, the same day as [...]

Just a quick link to the font resource from thinkdesignblog. I’ve been meaning to compile this list for a little while now. I’m following up my post, 20+ Beautiful Serif Fonts, with a list of equally beautiful, equal quality sans serif fonts. As we all know, you can never get enough good quality fonts. The [...]

In the previous tutorial, i have do an basic example. You should learn the basic step to start using Box2D in flash. In the following tutorials, i hope you will get more familiarize with using Box2D. First, i will talk about the basic element in Box2d – body. What is body (rigid body)? Yes, like [...]

One of the biggest problems flash designers/developers face after publishing their work over the internet, is that soon or later will noticed their work are stolen, or at least their code. Why, because the majority of the “flashers” don’t protect their movies by encrypting their files. Using a Flash Decompiler, is very easy to get [...]

In recent tutorial, you learn some basic things which are important before start to use Box2DFlashAS3. In the following tutorial. I will teach you with example to use a basic world. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to setup a basic scene – one ball and one box hit the ground. When running [...]

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When for the first time I hosted my first project, I even didn’t notice what should I consider prior to choose the right hosting provider. Nowadays things like these became easier, specially, because we can find web hosting rating sites, where we are able to find such information. But even better than that, is the possibility to hear the opinion from other people which use or used certain web hosting provider.

I recently work on a project using Box2DFlashAS3 library and find it is a great thing we must learn. So, i want to write some beginner tutorials which help others to learn it. I will divided the tutorial in  several parts. In part 1, you will learn some basic concepts and preparation needed before using [...]

In previous tutorial, i have teach you how to add bone to a character and optimize the bone. Now, We go to the last step to animate the character by the bones. In this tutorial, you learn how to animate the character by moving the bones. I will do a simple dancing animation. Part 2 [...]

In previous tutorial, i have teach you how to add bone to a character. But, if you test by moving the bone, the character look wired. So, we need to optimize the bone in order to have best result when doing animation. Part 2 – Optimizing the character and bones use for animation. Step 1. [...]