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About Flash

Flash has revolutionized the way that web graphics are created and built an entirely new market for 3d Animation and motion graphics. Flash Animation started as a very simple method for creating vector based web animation. The Flash Movie was little more than a slight advancement of the animated gif. The files were large, the drawing options limited and the end result clunky. In the early days of the Internet (5 years ago) this was enough to blow the competition out of the water. While their have been numerous ways to create motion graphics none of these methods has combined the impact and usability of Flash. Flash became the standard for online motion graphics because it was easy to use. Web animators did not have to understand code or advanced scripting language. You could design in flash, move things around, restructure the animation and duplicate effects with ease. None of this was possible before Macromedia Flash.

Even Microsoft tried to create a competing product: Liquid Motion. It soon became evident that the product required too extensive a knowledge of programming. A multimedia product needs to be designed by a multimedia designer, not a software engineer.

As Flash has grown and matured it has become unstoppable. Flash can be seamlessly integrated with web languages through Active X controls. It’s custom programming language, ActionScript is now object oriented. It has taken some of the power of a language like C and created an environment that appeals to the designer, not a simple accomplishment.

Flash can now be integrated with Databases and built with server side languages such as ASP, ASP.net, PHP, and JSP.

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