Postby Gypsy » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:24 am
Swish is excellent for text animation - it has some effects and actions built right in that are a pain in the butt to create in Flash. If you do actually take the plunge and get a Macromedia product, I'd suggest Flash MX. It's not the newest version of Flash out there, but Flash 2004 is very programmer oriented. Flash 2004's interface makes the assumption that you're an average programmer and there's less pre-written script in the library. Also, a lot of the commands that you learn in Flash MX have changed in Flash 2004. While I'm sure they had their reasons for it, it was not a cool thing to do in my book.
If you're looking to do some light animation for the web, then I'd say go with everyone else's suggestion and check out Swish.