Microsoft Liquid Motion Liquid Motion in Action Forrest Stroud
A wide range of sample animations and templates are also available for helping you get a jumpstart on the action. More in-depth information is available in the form of User Guides, which cover both basic and advanced operations in detail. Finally, a 'How Do I?' help section acts as an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for helping novice users get past the initial learning curve associated with creating animations.
In addition to its extensive help documentation, Liquid Motion offers a number of features that add to its ease of use. For example, the client offers complete integration with FrontPage 98, allowing users of the Web site editor to automatically add Liquid Motion animations to FrontPage 98 Themes and existing Web sites. Liquid Motion also offers one-button publishing capabilities, in which a wizard takes you through the process of optimizing your animation and then automatically uploads it to your Web site.
While the registered release of Liquid Motion includes more than 2,000 clip art samples, the downloadable demo is a bit more limited in nature. 31 standard GIF images, 10 2-D shapes (Macromedia FreeHand files), 13 3-D shapes, 7 MIDI audio files, 5 AU audio files, and 5 WAV audio files (same clips as the AU files only encoded in the WAV format) are available for use in creating your own animations. While a bit limited in number, the demo's samples will give you a good idea of how useful the full version's clip art collection can be in helping you create animations.
