Archive for March, 2008

Communication between two seperate flash files placed on the same page (or even running simultaneously on one machine) is a nice way to spread a project out. You can send variable, call functions, pretty much do anything in one swf from another. Easiest case use would be a navigation menu set up in one flash [...]

The goal of this tutorial is simple, to get you acquainted with Away3D and get a spinning cube rendered on the screen. This is going to be easier than you think.

In every Actionscript version, when two movieclips (or objects, shapes, texts… ;) overlap, the one with the greater depth stands in front of the other. You can think about depth as a Z coordinate.
This tutorial will explain you how to manage AS3 sprites and depths, and what’s changed from AS2 to AS3.

In the first part of our series on interactive design, Danny Franzreb and Holger Grünwald from German design studio Taobot show how you can use Photoshop to visualise ideas and concepts from your sketches.

Oftentimes there’s a need for a quick but unique design. In this tutorial, Jonathan will be showing you a short but attractive way to create a graphic for backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards, designs, and all that other good stuff. You will learn a simple photoshop trick that you can easily manipulate for your daily needs.