Archive for July, 2008

09 Jul

Video Tutorial - Adding a Stroke to text in Flash

Flash, irritatingly enough, does not come with a specific stroke tool, but I have found a few ways to get around this and simulate a stroke effect with the following methods:

08 Jul

A Quick Introduction

Welcome to gotoAndBlog.com - A haven for those with a passion for Flash!   Whether you’re an animator, a programmer or a web designer you’ve come to the right place to fulfill your dynamic web content needs.
My name is David Brown and I have been using Flash for about 7 years.   I have made animations, games [...]

07 Jul

The 10 best Indie Flash Animation series’ EVER.

The best 10 Flash animations made by independant developers (i.e. not funded by anyone!) are right here for your perusal. Get ready for some of the greats!

06 Jul

A free iphone 3G and some of the soundest advice in the blogosphere!

With about a million and six blogs-about-blogging on the ol’ interweb, it’s hard to know where to start.   I was introduced to Upstart Blogger by my freelance web designer girlfriend.   It’s chock full of useful articles advising how to begin, maintain and actually make money out of ones blogging empire.

06 Jul

Flash CS3 Disaster! - Crash on save/open/PSD Import + Fix

I just had a 3 hour scare when a flash project I’d been working on crashed.
I had been trying to import a .psd with seperate layers, and after some messing around, achieved it.   I clicked the test movie button and… white fade.   Crash.   “This program needs to close” and such.
I tried again, and the same [...]