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Flash Cinematic Techniques

Enhancing Animated Shorts and Interactive Storytelling
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Flash Cinematic Techniques by Chris Jackson teaches you how to elevate your Flash projects by applying classical cinematic methods. This guide covers every stage of production, from story reels to the finished work, offering practical tips, clear illustrations, and hands-on exercises. You will learn to skilfully use visual elements like space, line, colour, and movement to convey emotion and meaning effectively.

The book also delves into integrating traditional cinematography into Flash, including virtual camera movements, simulated 3D environments, lighting, and character animation. Additionally, it shows how to add interactivity with ActionScript to engage your audience further, making it essential for creators in entertainment, advertising, and educational media.
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This book is ideal for Flash developers, animators, multimedia designers, and digital storytellers seeking to enhance the narrative impact of their projects with cinematic techniques. It is suited for those with an intermediate understanding of Flash who want to deepen their visual storytelling and technical skills.

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Helps you to apply universally accepted cinematic techniques to your Flash projects to improve the storytelling quotient in your entertainment, advertising (branding), and educational media.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Apply universally accepted cinematic techniques to your Flash projects to improve the storytelling quotient in your entertainment, advertising (branding), and educational media. A defined focus on the concepts and techniques for production from story reels to the final project delivers valuable insights, time-saving practical tips, and hands-on techniques for great visual stories.

Extensive illustration, step-by-step instruction, and practical exercises provide a hands-on perspective. Explore the concepts and principles of visual components used in stories so you are fluent in the use of space, line, colour, and movement in communicating emotion and meaning.

Apply traditional cinematography techniques into the Flash workspace with virtual camera movements, simulated 3D spaces, lighting techniques, and character animation. Add interactivity using ActionScript to enhance audience participation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138426382

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 July 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Chris Jackson is an author, computer graphics designer, and tenured professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He teaches a variety of graduate-level courses and professional workshops focusing on 2D computer animation, 3D digital imaging, instructional multimedia, and motion graphics. He is a multimedia consultant for Fortune 500 companies and national museums. Chris' professional design work has received over 25 distinguished national and international awards for online communication. He has presented his research and professional work at Adobe MAX, ACM SIGGRAPH, UCDA Design Education Summit, and the Society for Technical Communications (STC). Chris is the author of Flash + After Effects and Flash Cinematic Techniques: Animating and Building Interactive Stories, and co-author of Flash 3D: Animation, Interactivity, and Games.

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