Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Joshua Davis Eric Jordan Yugo Nakamura
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Summary: Showcase, yes; Tutorial, No
This book presents some beautiful applications of the Flash product. However, you will not be able to duplicate their results based on the brief explanations of how they were accomplished, unless you are quite advanced yourself. More than half of the fla source files are not included on the CD-ROM, only the final swf product.
Summary: Not the right book for anyone
This is not for the beginners, and as an advanced actionscripter myself, I gained nothing. Maybe the intermediate will learn a few things or two about duplicating movies and if-else statements, but not much more. You will know how to recreate some tired and highly copied visual effects though, something you could of grabbed from the many flash resources online, and for free. But of course, knowing and understanding is two very different things. Actionscripting is a powerful language; if you don't understand at the basic level what certain commands do, you are going to have to be happy grabbing other people's scripts and editing them to your liking, which won't take you far at all. Plus flash is a heck of a lot more than just eye candy. So the basic point is, don't think of this book as a tutorial.
Summary: Well produced, slick for motivation and design ideas
No, this isn't a "how to use the flash app" book, there's plenty of good ones out there for that (I found the "Teach yourself flash 5 in 24 hours" remarkably better than I had expected for this).
The "new masters" book is an excellent full color wide page design concept book, to give intermediate/experienced users some new ideas and insights to build on.
In this it does an excellent job. It's one thing to go to a website (I like flashkit) and see the 'cool sites' examples, it's more useful to read this kind of book, which gives you the original designers insights, tutorials, and even a half dozen interview movies, along with source flas' for many of the projects.
So, it's more than worth the price of a PS2 game :) and I found it to be useful. I'm glad I didn't let the "but it doesnt explain how to code actionscript" neg reviews keep me from buying it.
I paid full price at a local bookstore, wish I had bought it here on amazon instead :o
Good book, worth getting for the intermediate+ level flash designer. Not for newbies. And, they tell you this.
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