Create great flash cartoons starring your friends, your boss, your teachers, your favorite celebrities - absolutely anyone you choose!

Flash? Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.

With Flash Professional 8, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.

Sonify.org is a community resource where Developers can unite with the common goals of adding interactive audio to the Web, Wireless and Digital Devices as well as advancing the development of the underlying interactive audio technologies. Read more.

STUDIO 8 WITH FLASH PRO UPGRADE FROM FLASH MX

Intro: Macromedia Flash is the leading vector technology for designing high-impact, low-bandwidth Web sites. SWF (ShockWave Flash) is the file format used by Macromedia Flash to deliver graphics, animation and sound over the Internet. It's rapidly changing the way we play, work or just browse online.

What are vector graphics? Vector graphics, which manipulate coordinates and mathematical formulas rather than pixel-by-pixel bitmap manipulation, produce graphics files that are one-tenth the size of bitmaps. Additionally, SWF can deliver animation, rich colors, sounds and interactivity. It just downloads faster, is scalable, and boasts higher quality than other graphics formats. It loads and plays in a flash !

Over 99% of internet users can view SWF content: over 600 million systems (and still counting) have downloaded the Flash Player for their browser. ( And if you run at least a 4.0 browser - it's in there. No plug-in is required. )

If you want to experience or create more than just static web pages ? then SWF is the format. It is rapidly becoming the online multi-media standard (check the links below).

Macromedia published the specifications for SWF in April 1998. It is now an open source format for development by third parties. Enjoy the benefits !

iFlash2.com provides information and inspiration for designers just finding their way into the Flash movie scene. But for those more interested in experiencing it than experimenting with it, we also have links to some of the premier Flash sites and Flash animation online.