General Flash Links

Resources

• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Exchange
• Activity: Getting Familiar with Flash
• Flazoom
• Flash Kit
• Flash Design Center
• Flash Developer Center
• FlashDen
• Additional Resources

• Text animators - SWfx and SWiSH
• Free clip art, sound loops and soundFX from Flashkit
• Community MX
• ActionScript.org
• FlashExtension.net
• Flash Loaded
• Senocular.com
• CartoonSmart
• Lynda.com
• Total Training

Reviews, Articles, & Opinions

• Flash is Evil
• Use Macromedia Flash: Save the Web
• Flash: 99% Bad (article by usability expert Jacob Neilsen)
• A Cancer on the Web called Flash (Flazoom editorial)
• Adoption Statistics

• Hey Flasher, Stop Abusing your Visitors (Flazoom editorial)
• Making Sure Usability 'Fitts' Flash (Flazoom editorial)
• Attention Macromedia: I Will not be Your Scapegoat (Flazoom editorial)
• Flash User Essentials - Webreview article about SWfx and FlaX, 2 applications that simplify text effects (also see SWiSH)

Techniques & Tutorials

• Webmonkey tutorials
• Flashkit tutorials
• GoToAndLearn
• W3 Schools Flash Tutorials
• Some Random Dude

• Tutorials from Adobe Development Center
• Elastic Navigation with ActionScript
• Dev Articles on Flash
• ActionScript.com

Flash Examples

• Jonathan Robinson portfolio
• Flinch
• NEOStream
• 156 Productions
• Mad Rhino
• Hillman Curtis
• Andy Foulds
• Smashing Ideas
• Balthaser Online
• Beatstream Multimedia
• Frank Herholdt Studio
• Architekton
• E3 Direktiv
• Insomnious
• MONKEYmedia
• Fusionary Media
• Chopping Block
• Power Flasher
• Graphics a gogo

• George's at the Cove
• miniusa
• Six Flags
• Gilette Mach3 Shaver
• Lundstrom & Associates
• Billabong
• Disney
• Dr Pepper
• Wyland
• NRG
• Searchbots
• Navy Jobs
• Greenbrier
• Macromedia story - nice integration of video
• Fiorelli
• chick-fil-a

• FLOW
• Dancing Bush
• Zoog Disney
• Gabocorp
• Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter
• System of a Down
• Reflektions
• Gorillaz
• Shockwave
• Flash Christmas Card
• Eaves Movie Ranch

• Flash Showcase
• silly beginner cartoons
• Animation Express
• Flash Gallery

• The Jerusalem Archaeological Park
• Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design
• Froguts
• yinyutang
• Against Their Will
• Knowing Poe
• Eye Contact
  

• Phong (NEW!)
  • Phong list of resources
  • Flash examples
• Complexification
• Levitated
• Muffin Films
• Immerse
• Bulbo
• Simon Hoegsberg
• Baxter
• combine