Sessions
Time: 5 hours

Chapter 1 : Character Animation (Chris Georgenes)
Session 01 : Easing
Learn to make your animations have a natural beginning and ending by using custom easing.
Session 02 : Anticipation
A useful and often necessary animation technique that is easy to learn and will significantly enhance your animation projects.
Session 03 : Squash & Stretch
A traditional animation technique that adds weight and volume to an otherwise rigid object.
Session 04 : Hinging - Free Transform, Scale and Object Positioning
Learn how to “hinge” your character's body parts for easier rotation and positioning.

Chapter 2 : Adding Interactivity
Session 05 : Advanced Buttons
No one uses button symbols anymore. Learn why and create the smoothest buttons in town.
Session 06 : Actionscript
Learn how to write and implement ActionScript (A basic overview of ActionScript).
Session 07 : Custom Animated Preloader
Say goodbye to boring status bars. This session shows how to make really cool preloaders.
Session 08 : Custom Graphic Cursor
Replace the user's cursor with something a lot cooler. See how to attach a movie clip to the mouse movement.
Session 09 : Click and Drag
How to make a movie clip that can be dragged.
Session 10 : Photo Gallery with Thumbnails
Click on thumbnails to load images dynamically from the library. This is easier than you think and offers unmatched flexibility.

Chapter 3 : Navigating with Style
Session 11 : Entire Site in Flash
Build a timeline-based navigation system.
Session 12 : Build a Graphical Shell to Load Pages
Loading external assets (SWF and JPG). This is an essential skill to building an entire site in Flash.
Session 13 : Bringing Things into Focus
Have a few objects out of focus and as you rollover or click they come into focus.
Session 14 : Slide-out Menu
Click a tab and the menu slides out.
Session 15 : Drop-down Menu
Learn to build a popular drop-down menu for sub-navigation.

Chapter 4 : Working with Video & Sound
Session 16 : Keying out Video
Using Adobe After Effects to make the background transparent.
Session 17 : FLV Integration
How to make an FLV from Quicktime, Final Cut or After Effects.
Session 18 : Masked Video with Green Screen
Add video with transparency to a Web page to interact with flash motion. Add video to a portion of a page with transparency, so that the other graphics are visible underneath.
Session 19 : Silhouette Effect
Recreate the effect that Apple used for the iPod commercials.
Session 20 : Vector Video
Make video look like it’s a hand-painted animation.
Session 21 : Old Scratched Cinema Effect
Like watching an old movie with all the scratches and dust.
Session 22 : Skinning Components
Change the appearance of video components.
Session 23 : Add Sound to a Button
When you click it makes a noise.
Session 24 : Looping Music with a Mute Button
Add looping music to your page that can be turned on and off by the users.

Chapter 5 : Widgets for Your Use
Session 25 : Variables
How to use Variables as containers.
Session 26 : Buttons that Remember
Adding a visited state to buttons using variables.
Session 27 : Photo Gallery using XML
(Contributor, Matt Keefe) Configure a photo gallery that loads the images using XML.
Session 28 : Scrolling Dynamic Text
Scrolling text that is loaded in from an external text file that is easy to update without opening Flash.
Session 29 : MP3 Music Player
A music player for Websites, that loads different songs and allows you to play or skip songs.
Session 30 : Email Form
(Contributor, Matt Keefe) A Form in Flash that invisibly sends an email in the background.