Also, do you know anywhere on line that has a few tutorials and the such for this kind of thing? Thanks a lot guys!
At the risk of stating the obvious, the best program for making flash movies is, well, Flash. Made my Macromedia. www.macromedia.com
I am not sure what you mean by “etc”?
You can find tutorials all over the web for various levels of proficiancy, you can google for them, I have found www.flashkit.com useful in the past.
“etc” probably means flash websites. Which can be built with macromedia as well.
I have a book borrowed from a friend sitting next to my desk, “Using Macromedia Flash MX” by Michael Hurwicz and Laura McCabe, that has proved quite useful. As stated before, in order to make flash movies, you should either buy Flash (I think the current version is MX 2004), or there’s a free trial online at macromedia’s website, if you want to test it out.
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- Well, this depends on exactly what you are trying to do:
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- For general website and interactive-game programming, Macromedia’s software is generally regarded as the best. Adobe LiveMotion 2 is another Flash creator, but it is no longer updated or distributed.
- For creation of classic Disney-style cartoons there are at least three programs specialized to do that sort of theatrical animation: ToonBoomStudio, Animation Stand --and the third one I always forget–but there is another one out there somewhere…
Animation Stand is considered to be the professional tool for this sort of thing, and they have a free personal version for download as well:
http://www.animationstand.com/products/personal.html
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Ironically, I have not tried the Animation Stand but I have played with ToonBoomStudio, and TBS is very cool, very expensive ($350) BUT it is for making regular film-type presentations only–it doesn’t support any type of scripting at all. It only supports the color and manipulation of vector shapes and scheduling of sounds. It outputs as a flash file however, so you could possibly create a flash movie in it, and then import that as an element into another “website-style” flash creation program.
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