Eyes follow the cursor

July 27th, 2009 in Flash | 26 Comments

In this lesson, let’s play again with trigonometrics. We are going to build an animation where the eyes of Dug, the dog from the Pixar movie UP, follow the mouse cursor. This tutorial is done with actionscript 3 and introduces the use of the Math.atan2 method.

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Animated drop shadow

July 20th, 2009 in Flash | 6 Comments

Let’s see how to add an animated dropshadow filter to a Movie clip with actionscript 3.

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Detect collision between two objects

July 11th, 2009 in Flash | 4 Comments

Few lines of code that cover the technique on how you can detect collision between two objects with actionscript 3.

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Capture images from the webcam

July 6th, 2009 in Flash | 28 Comments

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to take image captures from the webcam.

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Circular rotation with as3

June 19th, 2009 in Flash | 8 Comments

Learn how to rotate an object with actionscript 3 and some mathematics with trigonometric functions.
Here we are going to build the rotation of the moon around the earth.

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Shaking effect

June 15th, 2009 in Flash | 5 Comments

Quick tutorial that demonstrates how to create a shaking effect by using Actionscript 3.0. We will create a cocktail shaker that the user can shake by hovering it.

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Sliding menu with actionscript 3 and TweenLite

June 3rd, 2009 in Flash | 13 Comments

This tutorial will show you step by step how to create a sliding menu that appears only when the user moves the mouse over. This tutorial uses the TweenLite engine.

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Create a “24 style” digital clock

May 23rd, 2009 in Flash | 18 Comments

See how to build step by step a digital clock like in the 24 serie. This tutorial uses actionscript 3.

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