This movie requires Flash Player 9 FREE FILE FRIDAY I don’t have time to get into a video on this. EDIT: 3 VIDEOS TO WATCH HERE: This is more of a sneak-peak at what is to come. There is soooo much cool stuff to cover with TImelineMax. I’m simply offering up this file so you...Read More

Here we take advantage of TimelineMax’s sequencing prowess to do a series of tweens on clips that are being used to reveal an image. We’ll talk a bit about the offset parameter when using append() as well as have a little yoyo fun. This movie requires Flash Player 9Read More

This video walks you through a few uses of TimelineMax. It includes a brief overview and shows you a bit on controlling advanced sequences of animations for multiple movieclips.Read More

In this lesson I’ll show you how to add labels to a timeline. Once a label is added we can then use them for navigation.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 Time for a new code challenge open to both ActionScript and JavaScript developers! This challenge is going to be fairly easy for those of you who have followed this blog closely, but I guarantee it will be a worthy exercise for many regardless of experience or background. The challenge...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here I have a mash-up of 3 very useful techniques: Create an array of all children inside any Movie Clip or DisplayObjectContainer Shuffle that array Animate all the items in that array in sequence And oh yeah, no instance names.Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Just wanted to provide you guys with a sound starting point for building grids and more importantly animating them in clever ways. I’m going to do a quick rundown in the video and leave you with a few files to poke around in. I’m sure you will find a...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I’m going to show you how to make a super simple sound toggle with ActionsScript 3. GreenSock’s MP3Loader and Volume Plugin drastically minimize the amount of code you need to worry about. You’ll be in and out of here in a matter of minutes. No Sound(), SoundTransform(), SoundChannel() or...Read More