The Art of Flash® Animation: Creative Cartooning
It’s funny how things work out. I never really started out wanting to be an animator, other than having a lifelong love for drawing, and now I find myself writing a “how to” book on drawing animation for Macromedia’s Flash. As far as animation, I’ve made no secret to my students or readers of my website (www.marktoonery.com) of how I got interested in animation. It started out, I guess, when I was a teenager. I had written a number of short stories in the Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents vein, and a couple of fantasy novels that explored the premise of modernized “ringwraiths” invading a 1986 Alabama high school. Hey, I was a student in a 1986 Alabama high school, and writing about such things sure beat the heck out of driving back and forth repeatedly along the same stretch of road between Winn-Dixie and Dairy Queen (which seemed to be my classmates’ favorite weekend pastime). Anyway, I took some of my stories to my Methodist Sunday school teacher. What was I thinking? you may well wonder. Waving horror stories and dark, magic-wielding, wizardly epics around my Sunday morning church class? Well, our teacher was an attractive, friendly woman in her mid-20s, who raised horses on a ranch. Not your typical Southern Sunday school teacher, if there exists such a thing.
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