-- Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio dominates the multimedia authoring market with more than 95 percent market share.

-- Hands-on, step-by-step instructions for creating interactive movies for CD-ROM, presentations, or the Web.

-- Highlights the new advanced features of Director 8.5, especially importing and animating 3D models on the Web.

Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio is the leading program for developing interactive multimedia. Director combines graphics, sound, animation, text and video to create Shockwave content for CD/DVD ROM, interactive advertising, kiosks, business presentations, and the Web. Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: Training from the Source offers full coverage of Director's new tools for animating 3D graphics on the Web. Using this book as a training resource, experienced 3D artists will learn the basics of Director so they can bring their models to the Web themselves. Meanwhile, advanced Director users will learn the new Lingo syntax that allows them to animate models in complex and intriguing ways. 3D designers, multimedia content developers, Web publishers, and game designers who want amazing content that streams over the Internet can benefit from the expertise and real-world, project-based training in this book.