Well, I've recently come across Flash MX. Anyone good at Flash? I've started learning and I wonder how Flash animators draw those complex shapes and add voice overs. Does anyone have any good flash tutorials around or can teach me a few things? You can IM me at Magic1992 through AIM. Thanks.

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There are many tutorials available all over the Internet, but two of the best sites are Pixel2Life and Tutorialized. You could also have a look around WikiBooks and see if there is anything there.

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Wow, i remember when i first started to try out Flash MX, i was told that it would do animations for me because i was wanting to do animating things as in .gif's but it didn't work out for me..but anyways

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/1 -- is a good site for tutorials, the locationi gave you happens to be the exact spot for Flash Tutorials

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp -- and another

basicly just google Flash MX Tutorials and you will come up with thousands of hits!!

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I am so glad tha t I nopticed this thread... my dad just recently bought Flash MX 2004 cheap for his work and I would like to learn how to use it. Seems pretty complicated with all those functions and layers and what have you.
Those tutorials are pretty good . . . soon I hope to be able to actually do something in it and spice up my website a bit. I am currently tyrying to teach myself all about CSS / html / java etc. and these flash tutorials should add to my knowledge bank well for the better!
Thanks for linking to those

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Ah. Macromedia Flash MX! We have all the Macromedia products on our MAC's (Dreamweaver,Flash,Fireworks,Freehand)

Flash is a tricky program, but fiddle around with it and you should come across a few handy things. I had a problem like this before also, so I was playing about with Fireworks and Flash, and came up with a little Flash cartoon.
The problem i had was making a character!
But doing the mouth moving with the voice for me, is easier with fireworks

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Mx is good but I use swish 3d and 3d flash animator (almost dead)they where alot less difficult to learn to use. www.3dfa.com and google swish if u want it both range only 50$ i got it for free educational reasons and the company gave it away. www.flashkit.com is a nice place to get a boost on learning flash.

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i tottaly agree about swish. All my sites are designed in swish, i don't know if i can post urls to hear your opinions about my attempts
It's a very easy to use program, but it doesn't offer flash's capabilities, which is the only (?) solution if you want to make animation movies.

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