Publication

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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Absinthe: an Exploration of the Role of Mythology and Ritual in Market Revival

Last year, I was able to contribute to a small paper along with Lauren Labrecque and Garret Warr titled “Absinthe: an Exploration of the Role of Mythology and Ritual in Market Revival” which looks at the spirit, absinthe, from a marketing angle with a brief overview of the history, ban, and revival. In terms of the paper itself, …

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Lynda.com: HTML5 Canvas and WebGL in Flash Professional CC

Pleased to present a new course for Lynda.com: HTML5 Canvas and WebGL in Flash Professional CC! Create a shared pool of content for a set of related projects—HTML5 video, a WebGL-rendered interactive ad, and an HTML5 Canvas game—using Flash Professional CC. No longer restricted to only ActionScript and Flash Player, Flash Professional CC offers more …

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Train Simple: Flash Professional CC Mobile App Development

Pleased to present a new course for Train Simple: Flash Professional CC Mobile App Development! This course is designed for experienced Flash and ActionScript designers and developers. Joseph Labrecque will show you how to take advantage of mobile device hardware using new API’s in ActionScript 3.0. You’ll see how you can produce apps and publish …

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Lynda.com: Building Custom HTML5 Video Playback with AngularJS

Pleased to present a new course for Lynda.com: Building Custom HTML5 Video Playback with AngularJS! Develop a customized responsive video app that performs and appears great in all browsers, using AngularJS and Bootstrap. HTML video doesn’t require plugins for playback, but the default experience differs drastically across browsers. Using a combination of Bootstrap and AngularJS, …

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DVD: Adobe Flash Professional CC Learn by Video (2014 release)

The DVD of “Adobe Flash Professional CC Learn by Video (2014 release)” is now available for purchase via Amazon.com, Peachpit.com, and other retailers. Copyright 2015 Dimensions: 5-3/8″ x 8-1/4″ Pages: 1 Edition: 1st DVD ISBN-10: 0-13-392809-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-392809-9 This critically-acclaimed interactive training program from Adobe Press offers exceptional quality high-definition video to teach the fundamentals …

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Running Phaser as a Chrome Application

When I was testing out different mobile platforms for my new Lynda.com course, HTML5 Game Development with Phaser, I wanted to also explore how everything runs in both desktop and mobile browsers. Just pulling something up in Chrome for Android (for instance) works wonderfully… but you have to deal with browser chrome. I found a …

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