Finally, friends of ED have produced a beautiful full color companion to last years New Masters of Flash! Each New Masters volume delves deep into the heart of the year’s most innovative Flash design and brings you the new New Masters’ inspiration and technique. Building to form a unique collection of Flash Art, the New Masters series tests your Flash skills, offers inspiration and insight, while at the same time forms an in-depth chronicle of the best of motion graphics. New Masters: Flash Annual 2002 gives competent web artists inspiration on cutting-edge Flash design techniques, as well as serious tutorial information on how to build top class effects. The format builds on the best of the original best-selling volume, New Masters of Flash, while improving in such areas as generic customisable code examples. The talents, the inspirations and effects are all of the moment and represent the mature and expert deployment of the staggering new capabilities of Flash 5 ActionScript. This book offers immediate insight into the design approaches of 15 globally known designers. There is step-by-step deconstruction of cutting-edge design effects, both from the original designer p.o.v PLUS an editorial commentary. Included is a CD-ROM with animated tutorials and video interviews with authors. From the Publisher Flash has upped the standard for web motion graphics and has been welcomed with open arms on account of its powerful new Actionscripting capabilities. Following on from the phenomenal success of New Masters of Flash, the Flash Annual will bring together a new collection of the hottest Flash design talents on the planet, all of whom have grabbed attention in the preceding year. From the Author The artists collected in New Masters: Flash Annual 2002 are a collection of the new wave of showcase web artists from across the world. They all have a worldwide following and a reputation for using their designs to push Flash 5 capabilities to new limits. About the Author The artists collected in New Masters: Flash Annual 2002 are a collection of the new wave of showcase web artists from across the world. They all have a worldwide following and a reputation for using their designs to push Flash 5 capabilities to new limits.