Flash Tutorials

Free! - New Flash Tutorials on Video Available

I have received some free Flash video tutorials. They are first rate and you will get a great idea of the potential of learning flash by watching a video tutorial. You will get taken through all the steps and shown visually how to get the job done. Have a look below at some of the great free video tutorials I have secured.

Fixing Unruly Shape Tweens in Flash 8
Sometimes complex shape tweens can become a little out of control, even when we add all the shape hints we can think to add. In fact, sometimes the shape hints only serve to make things worse. In this flash 8 tutorial, you will learn a quick cheat that might fix some of the less desirable shape tween effects that might pop up.

Cursor Replacement and Blending Modes in Flash 8
You are going to need Flash Professional 8 for this tutorial. In this video, you will learn how to use Flash 8's blending modes to create a circle that follows the cursor around on the stage, inverting the colors of the image in the layer below the circle.

Rotating Globe Effect in Flash 8
Unfortunately, Flash does not have any functionality for creating true 3D animations by itself, but if you know a few tricks, sometimes you can fake it. In this flash video tutorial, you will learn how to create a fake 3D rotating globe effect in Flash.

Animating Filters in Flash Pro 8
You can motion tween a lot of things in Flash - position, transparency, color, etc. But did you know you could ALSO tween a filter in Flash Professional 8? In this video, will be shown how!

Creating a Bounce Animation with ActionScript
Creating a bouncing ball animation can be a little tedious if you usually do it in Flash 8. In this video tutorial, you will be shown how to create a bounce animation with only a few lines of ActionScript by calling on the Tween class and the Bounce class.

Continuous Animation
In this flash video tutorial, you will learn how to set up a looping animation that does not seem like it is looping. It will look like a continuous stream flowing through a pipe.

Flash 8 Semitransparent Buttons Tutorial
In this beginner-level flash 8 tutorial, you will learn how to create a very simple and yet elegant button symbol with a semi-transparent background that loses its transparency on rollOver.

Animating Lines in Flash 8
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to animate a series of lines to make it look like they're drawing themselves onto the stage. This is done using a simple mask.

Flash 8 Symbol Instances
How do you alter the label on one instance of a button without having the labels of the other instances of the same button change along with it? In this video, you will learn an important distinction between the way symbols work and the way symbol instances work.

Flash 8 - Rotating Sunburst Effect
In this basic tutorial, you will learn how to highlight your logo by putting a rotating sunburst effect behind it. You'll also learn an important lesson about reusing graphic elements whenever possible.

Text Swipe Effect in Flash 8
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animated text swipe effect, where the text is quickly and smoothly revealed from left to right. Text effects like this can be a little tedious to achieve, but the end result is usually well worth the effort.

Creating a Gyroscope Animation in Flash 8
Creating a spinning ring is as easy as flipping it over and tweening it. In this video, you'll learn how to create a gyroscope effect using multiple instances of this simple technique.

Flash 8 - Text Gradient Fills
Unfortunately, applying a gradient fill to text in Flash isn't as easy as selecting the text field and then choosing a linear gradient from the Color Mixer panel. So in this video, you will learn two different methods to achieve this effect.

Flash 8 - Problems with Rotating Animations
Creating an animation of an object rotating is very easy to do, whether you do it with tweens or in Actionscript. Unfortunately, sometimes the rotations don't occur exactly how you would want them to, because by default, the anchor for the rotation is the center point of the object being rotated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change that anchor point for both tweened animations and Actionscript animations.

Flash - common mistakes with actions and buttons
There are two ways to add actions to a button in Flash. You can add the actions to the button itself or you can refer to the button when adding actions to a frame. Unfortunately, the actions you add will be a little different depending on which method you choose. Because of this difference, the ActionScript involved can be a little confusing to beginners. In this video, we'll clear up all the confusion and fix some common mistakes that are made in the process.

Flash conditionals and toggle switches
A conditional is a way of executing a piece of code only if the circumstances are right. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the if() statement to control a toggle switch in Flash.

Flash - ComboBox Interactivity
In Flash, the ComboBox component is basically nothing more than your basic dropdown list that you see in forms on the Internet. In this video, you'll learn how to use this component to communicate with another movie clip on the stage.

Animation Setup
Animation can be a tricky process if you've never done it before, but Flash makes it possible to reuse pieces of your animation so you don't have to continually redraw everything. In this tutorial, you'll learn some basics for drawing and preparing your drawings for animation in Flash.

Flash 8 Tutorial - Simple Page Transitions
This tutorial is an excerpt for an upcoming training series, to be released by LearnFlash.com on March 31. In this excerpt, you'll learn how to create simple animated transitions for your Flash website.

Creating Movie Clip Buttons
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create animated buttons by storing your button as a movie clip symbol instead of a button symbol. Movie clip symbols will give you much more flexibility.
Running time: 21:31

Animating With Actionscript
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a simple animation using ActionScript instead of motion tweens.
Running time: 11:01

Falling Text Effect
In this video, you'll learn how to create a really sharp animation effect by animating the letters of a block of text onto the stage separately.
Running time: 8:08

Smoke Effect
Learn how to create a really cool smoke effect using Flash Professional 8's new filters!
Running time: 15:20

Flashing Face Effect
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to highlight a picture on the stage by causing it to flash a couple times.
Running time: 13:39

Read These Basic Tutes First

Flash MX common errors - Read this first. How to name Movieclips and that dreaded error message.

Actionscript Programming Basics - The general elements of programming structures.

Flash Work Practices - How to Generate good work practices in Flash.

Basic Create a Movieclip - and control using Actionscript.

Capturing Key Events and Mouse Drag - Using Flash MX Actionscript to capture key events such as pressing up and down keys, used in game control for example.

Flash MX Sound Object - Using Actionscript to play sounds

Flash MX Basic Animation Tutorial - First steps in Tweening

Flash MX preloader - by my buddy Ron

Flash SlideShow by Cressida Goddard

Flash MX Sound Object - How to use the Sound object.

Flash MX Games

Making a Dodgem Cars Game in flash MX Using Actionscript - Basic introduction to games programming using actionscript.

anatomy of a Flash MX Game - Full process of how to design and code a very simple game

Flash MX game - Tutorial on a space invaders clone

Space Invaders Tutorial Version 2.0 - With the code totally reworked and optimised.

Flash MX First Person Shooter Game - all the very basics, more to come.

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Drag and Drop - Learning Interactions

Drag and Drop Learning Interactions - Basic Flash 5 and Flash MX quiz construction

Drag and Drop to Shapes - Extra tutorial for drag and drop

Multiple Choice Quiz - For Flash 5 and Flash MX Learning Interactions

Fill in the Blanks Quiz - More Learning Interactions for Flash 5 and MX

Flash MX Video

Making Flash Videos - How to make videos in flash without using any codecs

Embedded Video in Flash MX - How to make Flash Video

Flash MX Video Editor Simulation - a drag and drop exercise

Flash MX Components

Flash MX ScrollPane - How to use the ScrollPane Component

Flash MX ScrollPane #2 - How to use buttons inside scrollpanes.

Flash MX2004 - Actionscript 2.0

ActionScript 2.0 classes tutorial - Using Inheritance and creating an Interface class

ActionScript 2.0 classes tutorial 2 - More on Inheritance

AS2 Game Development Log - Notes on my developing a space shoot-em-up in OOP

AS2 Game Development Log, Part 2 - Making baddies move, collision detection, scoring

AS2 Game Development Log, Part 3 - fix score display, Scrolling parallax Background

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Actionscript 2.0 Graphics class - A wrapper to simplify the use of Flash's Drawing API.

Deamothuls Actionscript 2.0 Shapes classes - Another way to use the Drawing API to draw basic shapes.

Physics and AS2.0 - A falling Triangle using flashMX2004 and physics - by Deamothul

Interfaces in Flash MX2004 - learn what they are and how to use them.

Flash MX video course -Learn how to use the powerful development features - action scripting, sound, images, text, and video clips to create Website content.

Resources

Flash MX2004 tutorials
Steve's Forums
"Flash MX Bible" by Robert Reinhardt