New Masters of Flash is both a global showcase and practical tutorial. Nineteen of the planet's most awe-inspiring Flash designers share their influences, ideas and objectives in individual introductory essays. They then take the reader through a step-by-step tutorial explaining in detail how to create in Flash 5 the interfaces, applications and effects that they have made famous. The author-designers are some of the most legendary Flash innovators currently working-from the US to Japan, Europe to South Africa: Yugo Nakamura, Joshua Davis, Manuel Clement, Irene Chan and Tomato Interactive's Joel Baumann together with fourteen other leading Flash practitioners. These are the designers who are expanding the horizons of interactive interface design with Flash. Join them.

Who is this Book for?
Web artists with experience in the Flash environment
Aspiring designers looking for greater inspiration from industry leaders

What does the Book cover?
New Masters of Flash is a compendium of advanced Flash techniques aimed at working Flash designers who are looking for inspirations and radical techniques. Across the nineteen chapters you will learn deployable skills for a wide range of effects and applications, many of which take ActionScripting right out of the box. Also covered are optimizing Flash assets for use in Director, exploiting Flash 5's advanced sound manipulation toolkit and an introduction to translating geometry directly into ActionScript. This is not a beginner's book. You'll need to feel comfortable with the Flash 5 interface and know some basic scripting constructs in order to get the most from what these experts have to teach. But apart from that, a load of curiosity and a taste for pushing web-design to the max is all that's required.

Summary of contents:
Tomasz Jankowski; Shadow
Todd Purgason; Acoustic
Ivo van de Grift; Flashlight
Luke Turner, thevoid; Ripple
Andries Odendaal; Dimensions
Eric Jordan; System
Manuel Clement; Looping
Brendan Dawes; React
Tony Ke; Illusion
Irene Chan; Rainfall
Yugo Nakamura; Nervous
Jayson Singe; Pointillism
cut-and-paste.com; Matrix
Olivier Besson; Rules
James Paterson; Sketch
Vince Suriani; Puzzle
Joel Baumann, Tomato Interactive; Wobble
Yasuto Suga; Rays
Outro by Joshua Davis; Chaos