Rating: 
Summary: No kidding, this is a must have book!
Review: You know a book is going to be an excellent experience for you when the list of reference books are books that you already own. That's my experience with Mark Clarkson's "Flash 5 Cartooning."What Clarkson does is to provide clear and consise instructions and tutorials on how to create animations using the flash toolset. More than just a "how to use flash" book, Flash 5Cartooning, illuminates the "how" of animation productions that can be used from a one-person studio to a production studio of dozens of people. I especially enjoyed and learned a lot from the "bobsey Model" chapter (chapt 9) and chapt 11 (layout, style and camera moves) that inspired me to try some of the things mentioned in those chapters. And there's gems scattered through out this entire book. This is not a book to teach you cartooning (the list in the preface has many books for that), rather, this is a book to take your static cartoons and breathe some "12 frames per second" life to them. There are a few rare books that I will tell friends that if they buy it and don't like it, I'll buy it back. Flash 5 Cartooning joins the ranks of those books. This book now occupies the space next to my copy of Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation book(ISBN # 1-56010-084-2). Higher praise, I don't know how to give!
Rating:
Summary: No kidding, this is a must have book!
Review: You know a book is going to be an excellent experience for you when the list of reference books are books that you already own. That's my experience with Mark Clarkson's "Flash 5 Cartooning." What Clarkson does is to provide clear and consise instructions and tutorials on how to create animations using the flash toolset. More than just a "how to use flash" book, Flash 5Cartooning, illuminates the "how" of animation productions that can be used from a one-person studio to a production studio of dozens of people. I especially enjoyed and learned a lot from the "bobsey Model" chapter (chapt 9) and chapt 11 (layout, style and camera moves) that inspired me to try some of the things mentioned in those chapters. And there's gems scattered through out this entire book. This is not a book to teach you cartooning (the list in the preface has many books for that), rather, this is a book to take your static cartoons and breathe some "12 frames per second" life to them. There are a few rare books that I will tell friends that if they buy it and don't like it, I'll buy it back. Flash 5 Cartooning joins the ranks of those books. This book now occupies the space next to my copy of Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation book(ISBN # 1-56010-084-2). Higher praise, I don't know how to give!
| 
