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Essential Director 8.5 fast

Rapid Shockwave Movie Development

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Fiaz Hussain

    1. Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Luton, Park Square, Luton, UK

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  • Hands-on approach
  • Plenty of examples and illustrations
  • Source code available
  • 16pp colour section

Part of the book series: Essential Series (ES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Director Environment

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 1-30

  3. Director Basics

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 31-52

  4. Casts and Cast Members

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 53-112

  5. Producing a Score

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 113-160

  6. Editing Sprites

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 161-200

  7. Animated Sprites

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 201-230

  8. Colour and Graphic Tools

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 231-266

  9. Behaviours and Scripts

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 267-298

  10. Publishing Movies

    • Fiaz Hussain
    Pages 299-308

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 309-315
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About this book

Macromedia Director 8.5 provides an exciting environment for composing interactive, attractive and media rich movies suitable for the web. Starting with an introduction to the development environment, Fiaz Hussain presents a quick and effective guide to the powerful components that make up Macromedia Director 8.5.

Using a hands-on approach, with plenty of illustrations, Essential Director 8.5 fast:
- Introduces the panels, windows and tools required for producing attractive and informative movies 
- Explains the role of casts and sprites in making appealing movies
- Shows various ways of designing, developing and publishing animations
- Demonstrates how different media types can be integrated to create lively movies
- Illustrates the use of behaviours to add interactivity and dynamism in movies 
- Provides a quick guide to producing Shockwave movies suitable for web delivery

Essential Director 8.5 fast gives an easy explanation of the basic tools needed to create dazzling entertainment, interactive product demonstrations and learning applications suitable for corporate web sites.

Examples used in the book can be found in the accompanying Essential series web site http://www.essential-series.com

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Luton, Park Square, Luton, UK

    Fiaz Hussain

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