CartoonSmart Flash Tutorials
filed Under: Tutorials
With most major animation schools fully entrenched in Maya this or traditional that, Flash animation hasn’t been getting the educational support it deserves. It’s to the point where my good friends at Six Point Harness Studios have taken it upon themselves to go teach classes at local universities themselves for no money. The way they see it, their next wave of employees isn’t going to just appear out of thin air, sooooo….
Anywhoo, this leads me to the topic of tutorials. Last night I stumbled onto the CartoonSmart website, a cleverly designed, entertaining, all-Flash site with the solitary goal of bringing Flash knowledge to the unwashed masses. Justin Dyke, who also publishes a clever comic strip titled The Mows, narrates several Quicktime tutorials that walk Flashers through the basics, and even some not-so-basics. I followed him through one of his freebies he offers on his site, and I was impressed. Justin - keep up the good work. You’re doing us a big favor.
Tags: CartoonSmart, Six Point Harness
February 21st, 2005 at 1:38 pm
cartoonsmart.com is a brilliant website! I have found the video tutorials on flash MX and Dreamweaver MX really helpful as they are highly informative and at the same time light-hearted and entertaining. The basic video tutorials are free, and the more advanced ones I found to be very reasonably priced with secure paypal payment options.
Top marks to cartoonsmart.com
February 20th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
jepp. support this guy, the tutorials are great. i tried the free ones, and bought the animation tutorials. it is really worth the cost…
April 29th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
cartoonsmart has helped me come from using basic flash for doing simple stuff to now desinging websites on a profesional level!!! Justin makes everything interesting!! he’s a really great guy just go to http://www.cartoonsmart.com
August 19th, 2006 at 6:20 am
I have purchased everything he has put out and I must say, it is very good and you will learn a lot about using Flash and also Actionscript.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
I must agree! cartoonsmart.com is a well maintained site with some good stuff on it! ive looked at his free flash tutorials and wanted to buy the other ones and he is not one of them guys who you email and dont get an email back! ive emailed him about 5/6 times now and he has returned to all of them so well dont to cartoonsmart.com!!!
December 17th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
sorry i meant well done to cartoonsmart.com!!! sorry!
January 17th, 2007 at 3:54 am
why can’t I use cartoonsmart.com I have flash 8 in my computer I should’t have any problem
January 17th, 2007 at 3:57 am
well anyone there!!!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
i have top agree withv everyone else here, ive bourght many tutorials and they have ALL taught me something!
June 21st, 2008 at 9:10 am
Cartoonsmart has a forum now for those interested in getting a little more advice on Flash, or just hanging out. You can find it at http://cartoonsmart.net/forum/ come on over and have some fun Flashing.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Cartoon Smart is a brilliant website with many good staff