Part animation guide, part Flash manual, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning provides a practical primer on classic, hand-drawn 2D screen animation as well as an introduction to using Flash for creating your own cartoons. Section I discusses the terms and techniques of hand-drawn animation, character design, and storyboards, while Section II covers scanning, digitizing your artwork into Flash, and setting up scenes.

Topics include:

• How to animate a walk cycle.
• Recording and editing dialogue, sound effects, and music.
• How to use recyclable symbols to make the animation process more efficient.
• Preparing your work for video or web download.