Cartoon Brew

Austalian Animator Duo Releases Electric Dog Flash Animation Power Tools

A pair of Sydney-based animators have just released Electric Dog Flash Animation Power Tools (EDAP Tools), a collection of plugin commands and optimized keyboard shortcuts for Macromedia / Adobe Flash ...
Macworld

Review: Flash CS4 Professional

Adobe Flash CS4 has been radically redesigned and restructured. With CS4, Flash has finally turned the corner from a code-based authoring tool with an interactive animation element, to a ...
Engadget

Adobe's Edge tool promises Flash-like animation through HTML5

Even as many onlookers declare HTML5 adoption the beginning of the end for Adobe's once-ubiquitous Flash platform, the company has embraced the web standard through properties like its Creative Suite ...
The Next Web

Adobe is renaming its beleaguered Flash animation tool for 2016

In the wake of major backlash to its Flash interactive media format, Adobe is rebranding the authoring tool as Animate CC. The company will launch the latest version early next year. As part of ...
Cartoon Brew

Fliiip Book Revives Flash-Era Accessibility With a Simple Browser Animation Tool

Designer, artist, and composer Jonathan Andrew Myers has launched Fliiip Book, a simple, browser-based animation app that lets users create two-second looping GIFs with ease. Lightweight and intuitive ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Play a Macromedia Flash Animation in Powerpoint

Microsoft Office PowerPoint treats Flash animations like videos that can be embedded in or linked to in a presentation. On the Insert tab in PowerPoint, click the "Video" button on the far right and ...
ZDNet

Adobe renames Flash Professional to Animate, pivots to HTML5

Adobe on Tuesday delivered an update to its Creative Cloud, but the biggest switch may be that it renamed its Flash Professional CC to Adobe Animate CC in a move that highlights the pivot from Flash ...
The Next Web

Google launches ‘Swiffy’ tool to convert Flash animations into HTML5

Google is famously fond of the brave new world that is HTML5. So, it’s little surprise to see a new tool emerge from its labs that converts Flash right into the latest version of the Web markup ...
CNET

Flash graphics land prime time on TV

The entertainment industry is learning new tricks from the Web that could dramatically reduce costs and recast a widely used Net animation technology as a significant offline production tool. Despite ...
Computerworld

Three HTML5 animation tools: Adobe Edge, Sencha Animator, Tumult Hype

The promise of HTML5, the latest revision of the HTML standard, is a simple one: With greater integration between static HTML and dynamic programming code (such as CSS3 or JavaScript), Web pages can ...
CNET

Adobe touts tools for Flash-to-HTML conversion

The company is working closely with CreateJS to help Flash developers -- and Adobe itself -- move to Web standards. The technology dovetails with an upcoming Flash Pro CS6 feature, too. Stephen ...