Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

DIY Rubber Stamp

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I was ordering something from an online printer the other day and noticed that they offered custom rubber stamps. This got the old brain moving, and I remembered that I (and by extension you) can make a custom stamp of my own.

Step 1: Get Your Stuff Together

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Making an MP3 player in AS3

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008


Music Credits:
Title: The Best Day Ever
Artist: SpongBob
Album: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Music From the Movie and More

Creating an MP3 Player in ActionScript 3.0 is fairly straight forward. The complexity varies greatly depending on what kind of features you want your player to have. I don’t plan on getting into ID3 tags here, but otherwise (as you can see) I will be going over the full functionality of a normal MP3 Player.
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Internal PreLoading in ActionScript 3

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I’m going to walk through the steps of making a preloader for your animation, game, or application and provide easily implemented source files that you can copy and change to fit your own project. Making a preloader in ActionScript 3 is more difficult to figure out then it was in ActionScript 2, but the code itself is not any harder.
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Spring Animation with ActionScript 3

Friday, April 4th, 2008

In celebration of our little vector contest I thought I would unofficially submit my own entry.

I made this animation using our Spring Time vector pack. It’s about 360Kbs, but once it’s loaded click Play to get it started, then you can press the Left or Right arrows to control the little bunny.

I’ll walk you through the process I went through to create this here game/animation.

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Fun with Illustrator: Here Comes the Sun!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Fun with Illustrator

Hello everyone. I’m glad you could join us on this fantastic day. I thought today I would show you how to make a nice cheerful sun to live with the clouds we made in the last tutorial.

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Fun with Illustrator: Happy Little Clouds

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

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We’re all big Bob Ross fans here at ClickPopMedia. Today, in the tradition of the Joy of Painting, I am going to show you how to make a happy little cloud.

Welcome back everybody. I sure am glad you could make it out today. Does everyone have their Illustrator warmed up and ready to do some vectorizing? Good.

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