Wilkinson- Resources Blog

So it is the end of the semester, and for my last blog I though I would share with the rest of the class some helpful sites I found among all the late-night, last minute, google scrambling to figure out how to fix that last bit of scripting or animating.
The first is a collection of tutorials on how to use the Wacom tablets the school provides for us: the collection is through a magazine and provides some very intriguing lessons.

http://designm.ag/tutorials/wacom-tutorials/
The tutorials for the most part have nothing to do with flash, but knowing how to animate with one of these tablets can lead to interesting creations in illustrator which in turn can provide you with great symbols to animate in flash. If you are interested in creating animated films or games with flash this is a site you should definitely check out.
The second site is a user-generated tutorial site that only deals with flash called: www.tutorialized.com.

If there are any questions you have pertaining to scripting or animating, chances are that within the over 3,500 tutorials you will find you answer. And best of all, you will find it explained to you in normal lingo. A great website that provides not only insight but also has a lot of great ideas to build upon.
The Third site is a website called www.Kibashare.com

KibaShare is a great website, although incredibly hard to understand. People post their work on there so you may take it, change the content and keep the awesome animation and scripting. It is incredibly difficult to understand everything once you have the files open, but if you find something worth having, it might be worth all the effort to decipher the scripting.
My fourth site is one I have been going to all semester for all my classes and that is the tutorial section of www.SmashingMagazine.com

A magazine that mainly deals with design issues, they offer a gigantic section of tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. Once again, a very nice way to figure out how to make items to use in your Flash project. If Flash is point C than this provides guides on how to make Point A and B kick ass. It also provides very well written tutorials on Flash from experts and students alike.
My final site is an added bonus, one I enjoy checking out before entering a project and getting ideas from. www.thebestdesigns.com

The Best Designs is a website that merely offers their choices in the current best designed sites, not like the FWA where flash is the main concentration, this website showcases the incredible uses of fonts, layouts and pictures, not animation. If you need a base to start a website design on, start here, then figure out how you can add some animation to the site to make it more interactive, and therefore better.
I hope you enjoy these sites and I really hope that they can help you in your further classes.