This is a pretty cool coming soon website.  You can throw these 3D block letters around.  http://www.helloenjoy.com/

Flash developers who post their  files and code on blogs and forums to receive help, to give help, to teach, etc, should check some of the popular Flash template sites occasionally.   The flash developer who maintains the blog, No Ponies, recently found a user at FlashDen selling one of his files.  Then he went to another forum and found a user posting some of his other class files.

The [Flash] animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, will hit New York  and Los Angeles theaters in a few days.  In the film, director Ari Folman takes an investigative journey seeking  the lost memories and the untold truths of his Israeli army mission in the First Lebanon War of the early eighties. 

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I recently came across these very impressive fur renderings by Flash developers Andre Michelle and Luis Martinez.  Basically they break images into millions of particles and then trace a path for each particle using that particle’s color.  You can view Andre’s collection here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93579423@N00/sets/72157608481995223/ and Luis’s experiment here: http://www.lessrain.com/projects/luis/algorithm/liverender/ .   …Pretty nice.

Flash CS4 is loaded with new features and improvements. The animation tools function very similarly  to those of After Effects, where keyframes are automatically created for you and each property (i.e. heigt, alpha, x, y, etc) has its own keyframes that you can edit separately.  This allows much better control from the timeline, but will take some getting used to for long time flashers.  Two other huge advancements are the built-in 3D translation and rotation functions and the the built-in inverse kinematics using the new bone tool.  Also, look forward to  a better user interface and a useful project panel. Take a tour of the new Flash with this video: http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=87