Publisher's Synopsis
Flash has upped the standard for web motion graphics and has been welcomed with open arms on account of its powerful new Actionscripting capabilities. Following on from the phenomenal success of New Masters of Flash, the Flash Annual will bring together a new collection of the hottest Flash design talents on the planet, all of whom have grabbed attention in the preceding year. New Masters: Flash Annual 2001 will give competent web artists inspiration on cutting-edge Flash design techniques, as well as hard tutorial information on how to build top class effects. The format builds on the best of the original best-selling title while improving in areas where the first volume was weaker, (e.g. generic customisable code examples), while the talents, the inspirations and effects are all of the moment and represent the mature and expert deployment of the staggering new capabilities of Flash 5 ActionScript. The Flash Annual format: The Intro is a series of 3 "field-report" essays written by key New Masters from the previous year (in this first case, Yugo, James and Brendan) covering new Talents, New Techniques and New Trends.;The main body of the book is then an evolution from the original format. This time, as well as the Inspiration + Tutorial sections, we add a third section to each chapter, The Next Step. Part summary, part chapter commentary, part code overview, The Next Step section teases out the reusable and generic elements of the previous tutorial and suggests ways forward for the reader.
