Posts tagged ‘extensions’

May 5th, 2009

Great extensions that work with new motion tweens in Flash CS4

by Jen deHaan

Justin Putney at Ajar Productions has created some amazing extensions that you can use with Flash CS4 and the new motion model to help with your tweens or create them. Justin’s extensions are not only useful, but well implemented and documented on his blog.

For some helpful detailed info about the extension creation, check out this post on the Ajar Productions site.

For information/download for the MotionSketch extension, which records/creates a tween based on you drawing in Flash (!), see this post.

For the Motion Blur extension, which analyzes the movement of your tween and then creates a motion blur. see this post.

Many thanks to Justin for your hard work, and excellent extensions.

November 4th, 2008

Understanding Flash CS4 Motion XML

by John Mayhew

Hi everyone. John Mayhew from Flash authoring here. This is my first blog entry here and I wanted to take some time to describe the XML schema we use to store motion presets in Flash CS4. First I’d like to give you some background. The new animation model in Flash CS4 was built from the ground up over the last several years. It started as an idea I pitched at the end of our Flash 8 cycle at Macromedia. We assembled a team and started development in Flash 9 and continued through into Flash 10 and eventually shipped it as part of CS4. It was the culmination of tons of hard work by many, many people including our very own Jen DeHaan! We are all very proud of the feature and hope our users find that it does indeed "kick ass" as Jen likes to put it.