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Night and Day: Easily Create a Landscape Alteration in Animate CC

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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Easing and the Motion Editor

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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Mysteries of the Bone Tool

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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Interview with The Flex Show

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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CodeBass Article: AS3 Audio Libraries

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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