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Flash 5 Actionscript Studio

TITLE: Flash 5 Actionscript Studio PUBLISHER: Friends of Ed ISBN: 1-903450-35-7 PAGES: 683 b/w CD: No AUTHORS: David Beard, Michael Bedar, Sham Bhangal, Richard Chu, John Davey, Justin Everett-Church, Jamie McDonald, Jose R. Rodriguez, Adam Wolff Get it now at Amazon.com

Generator / Flash web development

TITLE: Generator / Flash web development - Workflow process from planning to production PUBLISHER: New Riders ISBN: 0-7357-1080-5 PAGES: 224 b/w CD: Yes AUTHORS: Richard Alvarez, Jason Taylor, Matthew Groch Get it now from Amazon.com

Flash Site Workshop

TITLE: Flash Site Workshop PUBLISHER: Sams ISBN: 0-672-31999-3 PAGES: 384 colour CD: Yes AUTHORS: Ken Milburn, Craig Swann, Lynn Baus, Lon Coley, Cyndy Cashman Get it now from Amazon.com

Expression 2 by Creature House

Expression 2 is a unique vector-based drawing application that allows you to create images with complex brush strokes, called Skeletal Strokes.

Flash Web Design - The art of motion graphics (The v5 remix)

The original version of 'Flash Web Design - The art of motion graphics' came out in March of last year. This latest release is essentially the same book but with updated Flash 5 actionscript and screen captures, courtesy of Brendan Dawes. If you already have the original then there's really not much here to justify shelling out again. If on the other hand you missed this one last time round then you may want to read on.

Corel Rave 1.0 - a new contestant?

So Corel's gotten a SWF-program too? How good can that be? Well, it's actually not so bad. We've been playing a bit with Rave 1.0 from Corel, and it's a rather good animation program.

Flash 5 Magic with Actionscript

Flash 5 Magic comes with quite a pedigree. The editors, J Scott Hamlin and David J Emberton have authored some of the best of the Flash 4 books including this books predecessor Flash 4 Magic. They are joined this time by four other contributors, Mathew David, Jennifer S Hall, John Lenker and Samuel Wan.

Flash ActionScript f/x & Design

Author: Bill Sanders Publisher: Coriolis ISBN: 1-57610-821-X Pages: 303 b/w Buy it now from Amazon.com

New Masters of Flash

New Masters of Flash is the flagship release from the book world's new kids on the block, 'Friends of Ed'. In the relatively short period of time they have been around they have done much to endear themselves to the hardcore Flash community. From sponsoring much of the New Media Underground Festival to actively promoting 'design-friendly' sites such as freshfroot.com.

Amorphium Pro

3D in Flash has been around for a few years now and we're recently seeing the second generation of dedicated SWF renderers arrive on the shelves. John Dalziel takes Electric Image's, Amorphium Pro out for a spin (and a swoosh, and a flyby).