2D Animation Software: 2D Computer Graphics, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Shockwave Player, Anime Studio, Antics 2-D Animation, Apple

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General Books, 2013 - 60 pages
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: 2D computer graphics, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Shockwave Player, Anime Studio, Antics 2-D Animation, Apple iAd Producer, Autodesk Animator, Express Animator, Flipnote Studio, FutureSplash Animator, List of 2D animation software, List of Adobe Flash software, Mediator (software), ParticleIllusion, RETAS, Stykz, SWiSH Max, TISFAT, Toon Boom Animation, Toufee, TVPaint. Excerpt: Adobe Flash (formerly called "Macromedia Flash") is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation, games and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) which can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining. Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It allows bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera. Flash applications and animations can be programmed using the object-oriented language called ActionScript. Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular and user-friendly authoring tool for creating the Flash content, which also allows automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL). Adobe Flash Player makes the Flash content accessible on various computer systems and devices and is available free of charge for common web browsers (as a plug-in) under a few of the major operating systems, some smartphones and tablets, and a few other electronic devices using Flash Lite. Flash originated with the application SmartSketch, developed by Jonathan Gay. It was published by FutureWave Software, which was founded by Charlie Jackson, Jonathan Gay and Michelle Welsh. SmartSketch was a...

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