Before doing the fancy stuff in Animate CC you need to master the basics. Here are 4 quick challenges for you.Read More

Below is a video lesson from my upcoming Animate CC for Everyone premium course. I'm releasing the video and source files here for free just because it's nice to have some new content on the blog, and it would be cool to get you a little interested in it. Read More

Have you ever opened up an Animate file and or watched a tutorial and been totally perplexed by the visual appearance of the timeline? There’s a bunch of little black circles, stroked circles and rectangles of different shades of grey. I’m here to help decipher it all. The video below is the 5th from Animate...Read More

While building my Animate CC course I’ve been playing around with a few different techniques and styles. I’ve been super eager to share some stuff. The other day I came across a tweet from Rachel Nabors which linked to a Teen Titans Go video that highlighted many different animation styles. The one that caught my...Read More

Dear Readers, Just want to give you all a little (ok, long-winded) update on what I’ve been up to in recent months and what’s on the horizon. Its been awhile since my last post and I’ve been dying to officially share with you some tremendous news.Read More

I continue to be blow away by how fast the GreeenSock Animation Platform is (js speed test), but often canvas performance disappoints and I get ridiculous CPU spikes. Most likely it is due to operator error. I found KineticJS to do a fantastic job of making it real easy to get up and running with canvas while...Read More

Breaking News: As the tectonic plates of technology continue to shift beneath our very feet snorkl.tv unleashes more evidence of the growing potential of javascript-based animation. Rumor has it that animated interactive peacocks can be built today without Flash. Can it be true?  Read More

I have a really fun and stylish demo of banner-style javascript animation for you. The main player here is TimelineLite from GreenSock’s tangy Javascript port. I created this demo to try to prove to myself that: banner animation outside of Flash is viable the performance and precision of sequencing would not be barriers Come inside...Read More

It’s finally here! GreenSock has just released the GreenSock Animation Platform v12 BETA (GSAP v12). The big news is that GSAP has now been ported to JavaScript. I know tons of you have been waiting for this. I whipped up a fun litte demo using all your favorite and some new features of this robust...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here’s a little departure from the norm. Just want to share with you a little butterfly animation that I whipped together. I grabbed a static butterfly and simply animated the wings in a self-contained movie clip symbol. Grab it and use it any way you like. Download and details...Read More