Creating a Simple Animation in Flash CS4 Professional from Paul Trani on Vimeo. New to Flash?  Well, a great place to start is learning how to create a simple animation using the Motion Tween.

I recently had the privilege of working on a large online promotional campaign for Spartacus: Blood and Sand. A new series premiering on Starz. The mostly Flash assets I created and managed took about 3 months and resulted in streaming video rich media, site “takeovers”, custom Flash experiences, games, augmented reality and mobile content.  These assets were pushed through all major media sites including IMDB, Hulu, People.com, TVGuide.com, SI.com, and ESPN to name a few. Although the […]

Whether you are looking to update your skills, work more efficiently in Flash, revamp your web site, or launch a new career or business, you’ll walk away with awesome new skills in the industry-leading animation authoring software!  Join me! Philadelphia, PA February 26th, 2010 Minneapolis, MN March 26th, 2010 New York City, NY April 30th, 2010 Chicago, IL May 28th, 2010 Boston, MA June 25th, 2010 San Francisco, CA July 30th, 2010 Los Angeles, CA […]

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 public prerelease is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised web browsing of expressive applications, content, and video across devices. Here’s a good article on some of the first demos and interviews.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch has posted his thoughts on Open Access to Content and Applications. “Flash has been incredibly successful in its adoption, with over 85% of the top web sites containing Flash content and Flash running on over 98% of computers on the Web.”

Here’s the latest Flash animation I’ve done for http://www.blessmanministries.org Good cause.  Good animation!

More about Flash Professional CS5 What did Adobe announce at MAX regarding Flash Professional? Adobe previewed an early version of the next major version of Flash, Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Adobe also announced that a public beta of Flash Professional CS5 will be available for download from Adobe Labs later this year. That beta will include support for the ability to compile ActionScript 3® projects in Adobe Flash Professional to run as applications for iPhone. […]

At the MAX conference yesterday, Adobe announced that designers and developers will be able to use Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to create rich, interactive applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is NOT Flash Player running on the iPhone.   There is no new information about Flash Player on the iPhone.   This announcement means that Flash designers and developers can use Flash Professional CS5 and ActionScript 3 to build native applications that can be distributed […]

Monday at the Adobe MAX conference Adobe announced that Flash Professional CS5 will support creating rich, interactive applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The demo involved using Flash CS5 to export apps for the iPhone. It leverages the same source code used to deliver applications across desktops and devices for Flash Platform runtimes — Adobe AIR and Flash Player 10. The iPhone apps shown were built with Flash and not Apple’s iPhone SDK. Adobe said they are […]

Flash Professional evangelist Paul Burnett and Flash Professional expert trainer Paul Trani go head to head with Flash CS4 and Flash CS3, putting the best of these two releases to the test! View the onDemand seminar here VS.