All across the internet there are millions of examples of Adobe Flash creations. From those neat animations you see on sites like Youtube to the many online game sites that are very popular with kids, Flash creations are everywhere. But where do these animations come from and can you make them yourself?
Adobe flash is a commercially available program you can use to design anything from games to cartoons. The program itself is actually quite easy to use once purchased. Like many programs it has a help guide to get you started and help you with complicated tasks. The timeline where the events of the animation are placed/take place is easy to manipulate and is actually quite similar to that of Windows Movie Maker. Their are many effects available like ready-to-add shapes, sound effects, and other cool features that are quite easy to use and can produce amazing results. There is also money to be made with Flash. If you produce a good animation or game you may post it to a website. Whenever someone visits your page, you earn money. How is this you might ask? The answer is advertising. Companies pay the websites to post their ads on their games/movies like the one you just added. In exchange for giving them materiel which they can post more ads on (more money), they will give you a small share of the income (determined by the number of people who play your game/movie). This does however come at a cost. Adobe flash can only be acquired in unison with all the other programs that come in Creative Suite (newest version is CS5). This bundle of programs costs (get ready for it) 800+ dollars. So, are you willing to shell out 800 dollars in the promise of making just as much or even more?
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