One of the best things about FLASH is the community . There are dozens of great Flash resources sites out there, animation, tutorials, inspiration, how to, plugins, free templates… the choice is incredible…
So, with that in mind, here are 20 of my current favorite.

1 – Gotoandlearn , The tutorials of Adobe evangelist Lee Brimelow, excellent insight in Flash news, free videos tutorial, all of the latest Flash widgetry and no ads!
2 – ColdHardFlash , another excellent blog, find out about the news of the Flash animation world. good jobboard mostly US based opportunities.

3 – JumpingEye Quality Flash components to purchase.

3 – The FWA web Awards recognising the very best in cutting edge website design. find the best of Flash out there

4 – keyframer.com, the blog of veteran Flash animator Chris Georgenes. Writer of the “cheat in Flash” book series

5 – Vectorkid.com amazing realistic illustrations made in Flash, great tutorials.

6 – wacom.com creator of the wacom tablet, here is a simple step by step guide detailing how to use it with Flash

7 – A classic animation book for Flash animator.
Richard Williams’s brilliant ” The Animator’s Survival Kit”

8 – AWN Animation World Network – Official animation industry news, nice jobboard.

9 – FlashMagazine.com loads of news and tutorials
10 – CartoonBrew cool animation weblog
11 – John K Stuff blog of Ren and Stimpy creator
12 - Flashkit , probably one of the oldest Flash tutorial site, lots of flash animation tutorials
13 – Bulbo . I just love Bulbo cartoons!
14 – Adobe TV – high quality video tutorials
15 – Flash on The Beach , yearly British Mega Flash convention
16 – LFPUG London Flash Platform User Group (monthly meet up)
17 – moshimonster.com Awesome Flash virtual world for kids .
18 – kirupa.com Flash tutorials
19 – activeden.com Reasonably priced Flash Templates
20 – CBeebies Big and Small…And finally, the brilliant 3d flash site of Big and Small!.

A simple way to animate a vector based character in a flash animation using the bone tool

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I am having a great time with the new FLASH CS4 BONE TOOL , here is an animation project started a while ago & I was waiting for the incredible new animation features of Flash Cs4 to bring it to life ,these are a few pictures  showing how the bones are applied and some animated test video of the character in action. A full bone tutorial will be on FLASHARTIST.ORG very soon. In the meantime all I can say is that Flash animators will enjoy this new version of Flash more than the previous updates for all these new features.