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Mac FTP Apps

graphixboy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:52:52 +0000

Ok so its time to get your project online. Step 1: Find some FTP software so you can upload your files to the server. Here are a few favorites

After Effects

graphixboy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:21:01 +0000

If any of you want to follow up on our After Effects demo last week, you can take a look at a few of these tutorials.

Display Flash in a HTML page with the SwfObject

graphixboy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:20:26 +0000

So you’ve worked for hours on that award winning Flash project and you need to place your SWF in a HTML container for the world to see… The obvious solution is to open the publish settings and check the HTML format, allowing Flash to build everything you need. But is that really all you need? The default Flash embed code works fine for the little stuff, but lets say you want to make your code standards compliant or you want an easy way to make your site friendly for viewers without the Flash player installed (your grandparents or googlebot). In that case take advantage of the added features of Geoff Stearns’ great SWFObject

A few of the SWFObject features that might make your life easier:

Fixes the dreaded Microsoft “Click to Activate” error in IE 6 and 7
Creates clean standard compliant code
Can detect a Flash player version and push an upgrade
Provide users with alternate (non-Flash) content for search engines or those without Flash
Allows for an easy way to pass data into Flash at run time.

Free vector animation software

graphixboy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:30:05 +0000

Here’s some software for those of you who are interested in animation without the interactive abilities of Flash (Read animation only). Synfig is a high end vector animation package for OSX, Windows and Linux that offers a lot of professional features for free. So if your interested in the type of animation you see on Cartoon Network give this a try. I haven’t personally used this software but the feature list looks very high end and who can argue with the price.

Synfig Animation

And another one that competes with ToonBoom Studio. Again Open Source and available on most platforms.

Pencil