About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Adobe Flash, Autodesk Maya, Blender, The Movies, Autodesk 3ds Max, Poser, Anim8or, Adobe Flash Lite, Processing, Art of Illusion, TVPaint, Seamless3d, Stykz, Autodesk Softimage, Messiah, Adobe Shockwave, Cinema 4D, Avid Elastic Reality, Express Animator, List of Maya plugins, 3D Movie Maker, Bryce, Pivot Stickfigure Animator, PowerAnimator, 3DMLW, Aladdin4D, Moviestorm, Softimage 3D, MASSIVE, Gmax, MikuMikuDance, Euphoria, DrQueue, Artoonix, Cheetah3D, 3dvia, Cyber Studio, OpenFX, Swfdec, InTru3D, Craft Director Tools, Fix8, Rotoshop, IClone, Shade 3D, Flux, K-3D, Muvizu, Strata 3D, Commotion, Dynamation, Extended Vector Animation, Dimp Animator, Ming library, Quake 2 Modeler, Gryphon Software Morph, Fantavision, Apple iAd Producer, Swift 3D, Amazing Animation, Cacani, Biovision Hierarchy, TrigML. Excerpt: Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" ("RIAs"). Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an object-oriented language called ActionScript and supports automation via the Javascript Flash language (JFSL). Flash content may be displayed on various computer systems and devices, using Adobe Flash Player, which is available free of charge for common web browsers, some mobile phones and a few other electronic devices (using Flash Lite). Some users feel that Flash enriches their web experience, while others find the extensive use of Flash animation, particularly in ...
