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| Preface Cultural Revolution, Kitsch, and the Origins of This Odd Little Book 1 Birth of a Flash-Killer: LiveMotion's Radical Roots and Rise to Power The Shot Heard 'Round the Web Dot-Commies in Cyberspace Is LiveMotion for Me? Is This Little Red Book for Me? What You Need to Get the Most from This Book 2 Organize! Organize! Organize! Conspire, Plot, Plan Ahead! Motion Notions Red Guard Those Files! Revolutionary Tools and Digital Comrades The Big Guns The Little Guns 3 Capitalist Tools All Right-Thinking Little Red Guards Should Look Alike! The Toolbox Preferences and Proletarian Perks Creating a New Composition Exporting Revolution Strange Characters Draw the Character Smooth the Points Adjust the Object's Size and Color Add the Character to the Library More Pen Fun The People's Palettes The Properties Palette The Transform Palette The 3D Palette Working with Objects An Object is an Object is an Object . . . Aligning Anarchist Objects in the Mass Struggle Crash Course in Subversively Grouping Objects Combining Objects for a United Front Aligning, Uniting, Combining for Victory 4 Revolutionary Styles, Textures, and the People's Liberation Library: Immortalizing Your Objects, Applying Power Presets, and Rolling Your Own Three Cheers for the Gang of Four Palettes The People's Liberation Library Additional Library Palette Buttons March of the Billion Styles Brigade Quick Timeline Preview More on Styles Textures: Footprints on the Road to Liberation 5 Timeline Ballet: Orchestrating the Motion Revolution Fandong Bailei Jianjue Yao Gongpo. A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Keyframe One Chopstick, One Keyframe . . . No Dice! One Timeline, Four Zones Use the Timeline to Create an Animation Lay the Groundwork Add a Preset Cloud Animate the Cloud Make the Cloud Appear from Afar Stormy Weather Now for a Dash of Drama . . . "Politically Correct" Moves: Auto Bezier and Linear Motion Nerd Perfect 6 Textual Mischief & the Art of Propaganda: Animating Words and Text The Type Tool Six Red Anagrams = Marx, as in Grades! The Anagram Timeline Putting Mao in Motion Creating Mao in Motion Wao Mao! More Text Worship Last Anagram Before Toll Famous Lost Words 7 Mao Buttons, Guerilla Rollovers, and Mass Movement: Correct Behaviors and Interactive Elements Do-It-Yourself Mao Buttons Making Mao Kowtow: Creating the Rollover Correct Behaviors Red Romance Create the Silhouettes Add the Heart Animate the Kiss Trigger the Animation Remembrance of Nerd's Past 8 Importing and Exporting the Revolution: Working with Layered Photoshop Files and Exporting Radical Flash Importing and Manipulating Files The Writing on the Wall: Using Layers to Animate an Autograph The Little Red Exercise Book Defeating Low Bandwidth by Exporting Small Files! Revolutionary Vectors vs. Reactionary Bitmaps Keeping Tabs on Your Objects From Tai Chi to Sci-Fi: Using the Report Function Animate or Bust: Using Layers and Report to Animate Effectively How Did I Do It? Animate or Bust: Exporting Objects and Layouts to HTML Saving Face with Batch Replace Replacing HTML with Graphic Buttons 9 The People's War of Independents: Conquering Time-Independent Groups with Red Humor & Zeal Meet Me After Midnight at the Red Goddess . . . The Time-Independent Group Creating an Animation with a Time-Independent Group TIGs in the War of Independents: A Quick Quiz Banner Ads: "To Rebel Is Good, to Promote Is Even Better!" Animating the Banner Ad Ten Thousand Timelines to Chairman Mao Parting Head-Shot 10 The Great Wall of Sound: Adding Audio to Flash Animations The Sounds Palette Shake, Rattle, and Revolt: Sound Basics Making Adjustments to Your Sounds Extending a Sound's Length More Sound Adjustments Let the Nerd Be Heard: Adding a Repeat Effect Adding the Thump Red Guard Heaven: Adding Sound to Web Buttons Slim It Down? Duplicating Objects with Sounds Alien Sounds: Adding a Soundtrack Getting Ready Adding sound1 Looping sound1 and Adding sound2 Extending and Fading Out sound2 Red Guard Mission (Possible): Reduce File Size Exporting Sound to Flash Load Movies! Fire Flash! Bang! The Load Movie Behavior Adding Load Movie to Rhapsody If a Tree Falls in the Red Forest . . . 11 Capitalist Freeloaders and Proletarian Preloaders Find a Hook and Grab the Masses! How a Preloader Works Waiting for Download: Implementing a Preloader Preloader Preparations Adding the Preloader Setting the Gang of Three Behaviors The Main Attraction Rebel with a Cause The Little Preloader That Could 12 The Cult of Motion: Building Great Socialist Web Sites The Web Is in Its Infancy (And It's a Brat) Serving the Revolution: Plan your Web Site Well Little Red Layout Dreams People's Layout #1 Exporting to HTML Flash-Based "Manchurian Candidate" Layout: Using the Load Movie Behavior Appending a Movie to a Movie Replacing SWF Movies Opening Movies in Multiple Windows Entering the Red Goddess's Lair Loading a Movie in a New Window See JavaScript Run Theater of the Absurd Smoking (Guns) Permitted: Make Your Own Zines Make a Big Splash Screen (But Keep It Small) Nixon's Missing Gift to Chairman Mao A Long March Shortcuts, Tips & Tricks Red Chinese Takeout Reference Menu (Windows) Red Chinese Takeout Reference Menu (Mac) B Motion Resources on the Web LiveMotion, Flash, Data & Utilities Adobe Systems FlashJester FlashKiller Flash Magazine Little Red Books Macromedia OpenSWF.org Stylemotion Swifty Utilities Audio & Sound Sources FindSounds.com Music Robot Free WAVs Killersound Music4flash Font Sense BLAMBOT! Comic Fonts The Dingbat Pages Erotic Fonts The Font Diner Font World JavaScript Resources The JavaScript Source Web Developer's Virtual Library Images Animation Factory Ditto GoGraph The Future of Flash & Web Design Cool Art, Lit & E-zines Hardcore Maoist Mischief Little Red Bibliography Chinese Politics & Magic Maoism Absurdism, Humor & Quality Lit |
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