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Toon Boom Studio

Let's face it - in terms of animation, Flash is rather simplistic. What do you do when your animation skills surpass the capabilities of Flash? Toon Boom Animation may have the solution for you.

Foundation ActionScript Animation

Not only has Foundation ActionScript Animation - Making Things Move been a long time coming, but just in a matter of a few weeks, it sold out of its first run. And after going through it, I can see why.

Review: Camtasia Studio 3.1 and SnagIt 8

It's been a couple of years since we checked out the capture tools from TechSmith so we thought we'd take a look at the new releases of Camtasia Studio 3.1 & SnagIt 8.

Review: Xtivity

Interactive designers have had a rough ride from Macromedia Flash over the last few versions. Although Flash 8 looks set to reignite the creativity within the community there are now a number of designer friendly Flash authoring tools out there. Xtivity is one of the most interesting. It has been built from the ground up to let anyone create complex interactive sites without ever writing a line of code. John Dalziel checks it out.

TurboDemo Professional reviewed

The makers of TurboDemo use a slogan that just has to be verified: 'Record Your Desktop and Create Demos and Tutorials within minutes'. Will I be able to do just that? In this review I will have a try at making a simple demo in 'just minutes'.

Flash 8 - New for Designers

Macromedia is focusing on designers for this new release. And you will be pleased with all of the features being offered.

Flash 8 - New for Coders

Flash programmers will jump of joy when they dig trough the new bitmap and filter classes. So much to learn, so little time... This article gives you a short overview of the new features as well as links to existing samples, using the function mentioned. The new video features as well as the Flash 8 IDE itself are covered in the main review.