Flash Cinematic Techniques: Enhancing Animated Shorts and Interactive Storytelling

Flash Cinematic Techniques: Enhancing Animated Shorts and Interactive Storytelling

by Chris Jackson
Flash Cinematic Techniques: Enhancing Animated Shorts and Interactive Storytelling

Flash Cinematic Techniques: Enhancing Animated Shorts and Interactive Storytelling

by Chris Jackson

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Overview

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, color, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138426382
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/27/2017
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Chapter 1: Show, Don’t Tell Me a Story, Chapter 2: Get Into Character, Chapter 3: Give Me Space, Chapter 4: Direct My Eye, Chapter 5: Don’t Lose Me, Chapter 6: Move the Camera, Chapter 7: Light My World, Chapter 8: Speak to Me, Chapter 9: Interact with Me, Chapter 10: Optimize and Publish, Index
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