How To Create Animated Banner Ads For Your Website

How To Create Animated Banner Ads For Your Website

How To Create Animated Banner Ads For Your Website

A web banner or banner ad is a mainstream marketing tactic in today's digital world. We see tons of them throughout our day on practically every website we visit and sometimes to the point of overkill. However they can be a valuable messaging tool for your business. 

An Oldie But A Goodie: A Fun Flash Character Animation Project

An Oldie But A Goodie: A Fun Flash Character Animation Project

An Oldie But A Goodie: A Fun Flash Character Animation Project

We all have projects from our early creative days (when we were green as slime) that we just absolutely love even though when we look back on them now they scream out how much of a novice we were. This is an old project from my early animation days that absolutely cracks me up and I thought might be fun to share. The project is entitled "What is Love" and is a short animation piece featuring my original character Bluto which I created for a Flash animation workshop I was in several years ago. The piece was inspired by the movie, Night at the Roxbury and uses the theme song "What is Love" by Haddaway as the soundtrack for the animation.

What Does The Graphic Symbol Do In Flash?

What Does The Graphic Symbol Do In Flash?

What Does The Graphic Symbol Do In Flash?

Back in September of 2011, I wrote an article for ActiveTuts+ entitled Flash’s Underrated “Graphic” Symbol. If you use the timeline to create animations in Flash (does anyone do that anymore?), or if you ever wondered what the point of the graphic symbol is, then you should give it read.