New content on Adobe’s website: How to Get Animate to Play a Hosted Video When the need arises to play a hosted online video file in Animate CC, where do you begin? The video file can be hosted on your own server, or any publicly accessible server. You can begin with two important things: a […]
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Ever since Flash Professional became Animate CC back in February of this year, we’ve had access to the CC Libraries panel. Included within this panel is a direct connection to search against the library of assets included in Adobe Stock. Why would anyone want to search for Stock assets within Animate? For one thing, it’s
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I have another article up on the Adobe Animate team blog – this time dealing with the basics of using JavaScript and CreateJS within Animate CC. For nearly 20 years, the programming language used within Animate (Flash Professional) projects has been ActionScript. So why the current shift to JavaScript? Well, it isn’t exactly as simple
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Get moving… with the resurrected Adobe Animate CC Motion Editor at Adobe.com! Even a small amount of easing, if applied correctly to an animated object, can go far in conveying a truer sense of reality and weight. Animate CC includes a number of mechanisms for applying easing in this way, and we will examine how
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A spookily-skeletal overview of the Adobe Animate CC Bone Tool and IK Armatures on Adobe.com! Adobe Animate CC includes a really interesting tool that not many users know about. In fact, this subject is way beyond the scope of a single tool – as it encompasses and entirely different way of assembling and animating content
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A few weeks ago, I had an article published at the Adobe Animate CC Team Blog on using Typekit web and desktop fonts within Animate. We go into an overview of both static and dynamic text – across both HTML5 Canvas and ActionScript based targets. Check it out! Adobe Animate CC allows the use of Typekit
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Both of my video tutorials on customizing STrobe Media Playback are now available over at ActiveTuts+. If you are interested in doing simple skinning of SMP or want to recompile a customized version; I’ve got you covered! UPDATE: Also be sure to check out Tom Green‘s overview over at WebdesignTuts+! Getting Started with Strobe Media
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After months of preparation, the Flash Platform case study I was involved with between Adobe and the University of Denver has been published on the Adobe customer showcase website. I am a huge supporter of Industry and Higher Education working together and am happy to see this article finally see the light of day! The
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Last evening, I was interviewed by Jeffry Houser and John Wilker of The Flex Show with a focus on Flex Development in Higher Education. We chatted about a general overview of Flex and education, some Flex projects I’m involved with at the University of Denver, a bit about the Adobe Education Leader program, and emerging
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An article I had written on using a variety of ActionScript and Alchemy-based audio encoding libraries in Flash Player has been published over at CodeBass. Check it out and even play with the demo set from within your web browser. Full source code and links to referenced AS3 libraries is also available. Nice to finally
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