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Like many people in this business, I have fallen under the spell of the animation program called Flash. The program has unlimited potential for creative expression, and best of all, once you make something cool, you get to make it move. While I was not called on to develop much Flash during my year as a Web Developer with Artifexbid.com., since leaving the company I have made Flash one of my priorities. I am now employed part time as an "adjunct faculty" member at Clover Park Technical College where I teach both
beginning and Intermediate Flash.
You will need the Flash MX Player to view these movies. It is a free one minute download. |
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Teaching and Learning projects below:
During slow periods, while I was still working as a Web Developer with Artifexbid.com, I would develop little intros for possible use on the company web site and some of the movies shown below were developed during that period while other have been created as lesson plans for my students. My unique combination of creativity and integrity makes exploring Flash a pleasurable learning curve. |
walking man
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I made this guy walk while working my way through a book on Flash Character Animation called: "Flash Cartoon Animation, Learn from the Pros" by Peaty & Kirkpatrick.The book came with all the files, but because I knew I needed the practice, I recreated them all from scratch, working mostly in Illustrator before going to Flash for the animation work. |
alarm clock
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This is an alarm clock I built as a lesson plan for my intermediate Flash class. The actionscript was all created from scratch. |
maze game
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This is my first game in Flash. It builds on skills I learned in a great book on Flash called, "How to do everything with Flash 5". This was also the first time I worked in the expert mode of ActionScripting. |
the ray of light effect
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I learned this technique in a Flash book. The book however, did not explain the details. In an animation like this, the details are everything. Pretty cool for 13 Kilobytes.
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Mark Webster Light
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This is the same file, but altered with my name in lights, and some other enhancements from Illustrator. 28 K.
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Flashlight
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The Flashlight is a popular Flash technique. Here is my variation without using masks. This one also permits you to adjust the size of the beam. Ya gotta love this program! 18 K |
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DIND intro
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I built this intro in college for the kind people at dind.com where I served my internship. 37 K |
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printing press
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There is a cool animated printing press in this one, built entirely in flash during my first 2 weeks with the software. 22 K |
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moving water
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Using a clever technique I picked up on Flashkit.com, I have animated the water on one of my landscape paintings. 50K |
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animated company logo
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A clean intro concept using spinning type and an animated border. 61K |
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3D interface concept
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Shape tweening carried to it's logical extreme. This is a lot of action for only 8K. |
my personal Flash intro |
This was my original intro created shortly after I graduated from CPTC with a certificate in web design; August, 2000. To see the companion side navigation, click on the link to "printing". 80K
I built the framework for its successor but have only put content in a few of the pages. Most of my freelance clients prefer an all html web site due to some of the limitations of Flash in the business environment. |
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