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Artie Romero's Recommended Reading and Software
Books on Creating Click on the name of the book to order it from Amazon.com. Flash 5 Cartooning (with CD-ROM)by Mark Clarkson  List
Price: You Save: $15.00 (30%) Amazon.com Price: $34.99 This book (now on sale, 30% off!) will get you started in the creation of your own full-screen, full-motion, color and sound Flash cartoons which will stream smoothly on the Web. You will need some other things to get started: Flash MX, the latest and greatest version of the software from Macromedia, a powerful Macintosh® or Windows® computer, an abundance of drawing talent and a lot of desire to see your cartoons come to life. A graphics tablet is also a must! The book includes some great tips on keeping your file sizes down, so that even viewers with modem connections can enjoy your online cartoons. Check out flash.artie.com for examples of ARG! Flash cartoons.
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Flash 5 Studio with CD-ROM by Sham Bhangal, Peter Holm, Nikhil Adnani 
List Price: Amazon.com Price: $34.99 You Save: $15.00 (30%) Flash 5 Studio is for the intermediate to advanced Flash user and concentrates on game and other interactive content creation through the use of actionscripts. If you are not used to working in Expert mode, you will find this a difficult exercise. However if you would like to get involved in game development, you can find some very useful routines and nifty ways of handling visual action in the book and CD ROM. Yes, this is programming, folks, and where would the game business be without that?
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Flash 5 Cartoons and Games f/x and Design by Bill Turner, James Robertson, and Richard Bazley 
List Price: Amazon.com Price: $34.99 You Save: $15.00 (30%)
Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. ARG! prefers this book for advanced Flash animation studies. We found it to be a very informative and readable edition. The contributors' list reads like a "who's who" of Flash experts, and the examples are outstanding. This is an excellent book for learning cartooning and game creation skills in Flash. |
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Wacom Graphire 4 X 5 USB Tablet with Cordless Mouse & Pen (Slate)
 Amazon.com Price: $89.99Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. If you want to do cartooning in Flash, you will definitely want to get a good graphics tablet! This is the one that ARG! animators use in our studios. It's great because it is a one-size-fits-all USB device with software for both Macintosh and PC, it's very easy to install, and we're offering it now in association with Amazon.com for an amazing price. FEATURES:
The Wacom Graphire tablet with its patented cordless mouse and pen brings a new level of freedom and innovation to the world of graphical input. Boasting a resolution of 1,015 lines per inch, the high-precision Graphire mouse works on the active surface of the tablet--without cords or batteries! |
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