Flash leads interactive animation trend

Now flash this interactive animation form has become a design darling, with the flash of the network world has become more colorful, vivid.

　　The predecessor of Flash

Flash is the predecessor of Future Wave company developed FutureSplash animator, based on the vector animation software, Macromedia after the company, combined with Macromedia Shockwave, Used on the web to publish interactive animations. The reason for Macromedia's acquisition of FutureSplash is that FutureSplash has perfected Macromedia's director products, and Director is a programmable technology that has been used for a long time on the internet to generate interactive product presentations and games. Since director is not designed for the Internet, director's most exciting films are too large to be played on the internet, so flash becomes a new technology to replace director in the Internet.

The advantage of Flash is that it is independent of the browser, as long as the browser to add the appropriate plug-ins can watch Flash animation, the use of small bandwidth, than the standard GIFs and jpegs more flexible, smaller volume.

　　Version replacement of Flash

Flash from FutureSplash to come over, in 1996 birth of the Flash1.0 version. But at that time Flash was not people's attention, what is really known is the Flash3.0 version began, when the domestic internet technology has just begun to start. The June 1999 release of the Flash4.0 version, its production of animation began a large number of online communication, has gradually become the Web interactive multimedia animation design software standards.

Flash contains ActionScript technology that allows programmers to apply their scripts for editing animations, From the Flash5.0 Start program and animation technology combined with the formal application of flash editing network animation, ActionScript script easy to learn and ease of use so that beginners can quickly grasp the application of the law, creating a simple animation with the program.

Flash developed into the current MX 2004 and MX Professional 2004,actionscript action scripting language also developed to version 2.0, introducing a number of new language elements, object-oriented programming in a more standard way, classes, packages, inheritance, encapsulation, rich components, Project management, versioning, things that used to be seen only in a professional object-oriented application integration rapid development environment have all been implemented in Flash. Flash is no longer a single animation creation tool.

　　Comparison of Flash animation and traditional animation

With the development of network, animation and multimedia technology, music, animation and literature are interspersed with each other as a trend of development. Flash is the interface of these technologies, a large flash animation, you can apply HTML, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, CGI and other technologies, combined with image processing 3DMAX, CorelDraw, FreeHand, Photoshop and other technologies are done together. As a result, flash animation and traditional animation compared with the following features:

1.Flash animation plot more exaggerated ups and downs.

2. Its interactive characteristics, you can let the appreciation of the animation into the use of mouse clicks, choose to determine the development of the story, so that the appreciation of the animation in a role.

The production process of 3.Flash is relatively simple, and ordinary users can create a simple animation by mastering its Operation method.

4.Flash the use of vector graphics technology, so that the size of the animation, the speed of transmission on the network, viewers can download at any time to watch.

5.Flash animations can be used both on the network and on TV.

　　Flash current application and development prospects

Flash is now a wide range of applications, greeting cards, MTV, animated short films, interactive games, website titles, network ads have flash figure, and even in E-commerce has also applied the technology of Flash. Both the artist and the programmer can find their place in Flash. The most widely used field of Flash today is in online advertising.

Since domestic users began to contact Flash, many young computer enthusiasts dedicated to the study of Flash technology, 1999 for flash enthusiasts to provide a professional website Flash Guodi (flashempire.com) After the birth of this kind of like flash of young people have a special name "Flash guest." The initial tutorial articles on Flash were relatively few, when the flash guests were able to make progress only through the English language of Help files and communication on the forums, and everyone was interested in the software, and it was rarely used for commercial purposes.

More than IE5.0 version of the browser with the Flash playback plug-ins, vigorously promote the popularity of Flash. Flash is only a technology of multimedia animation development, but in China it has affected a generation of young people, with the help of research flash famous young people such as small, border town prodigal, "Northeast people are living Lei Feng" Snow Village become a household name, this flash created a group of Flash star. September 9, 2001, the CCTV channel 10th "Selection", the first time in the country to broadcast a special program for the Flash, the previous mysterious flash guests in the public, the first to become the star of the young people to become a "role model" for other young people.

In a commercialized society, the Flash animation becomes the popular media dissemination way, inevitably will be invaded by the commercial capital. The small animation was acquired by the Koreans, "Northeast people are living Lei Feng" Snow Village effect, Flash has been from pure technology research to commercial operation mode, Flash Flash guest officially become a new industry, more and more people want to grasp its technology to get a point of envy of the work. " Investors want to get more of their wealth through it.

The widespread application of flash in the network advertisement is undoubtedly the most direct profit way. Some of the traditional product ads played on TV, by Flash carved up the cake, now everywhere open a well-known website, will see the familiar product Flash ads, and Internet users also accept this emerging advertising methods, because they are attracted by the interesting design of Flash, Don't get tired of this kind of flash animation that has an advertising character. In contrast, with the commercial nature of Flash animation more exquisite, screen design, background music more sophisticated, network advertising to flash technology and business perfect combination, but also to flash learners pointed out the direction of development.

Flash widely spread and the characteristics of a wide range of freedom, whether the artist or ordinary enthusiasts can find from flash to show their style of the stage, I believe that these focus on the cause of flash friends, will bring us more surprises in the near future.