Expression Blend Capabilities

Question

I'm considering purchasing the whole studio, but have a quick question...

Can you create games, animation movies and even advertiesment banners with the animation portion of expression blend?

If so... is there any way to make the files flash (.swf) or even the other flash types(.flv)?

I will check this often since I need to figure out soon  but if you don't mind.
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Thanks much... any help is appreciated!


Aaron

Answer 1

Can you create games, animation movies and even advertisement banners with the animation portion of expression blend?

Yes, of course.
We can create simple games like Flash games (even simple 3D games).
We can create very surprising animation movies and advertisement banners .

If so... is there any way to make the files flash (.swf) or even the other flash types(.flv)?

I don't think so.

There are many training videos about Expression Blend here that you can figure out , what works you can do with it .

Answer 2

Hi Shurephyre,

Expression blend's main purpose is to design and style GUI for both Client (WPF) and Web (Silverlight) applications. To create games XNA would be the platform with much more capabilities compared to WPF, but yes, you can use Expression Blend to design games, for coding you'll need Visual Studio.

Simple animated banners can be easily made using Expression Blend (for both Silverlight and WPF), but if you want to make a lengthy animated movie, like a 1 minute advertisement, Expression Blend isn't as suited to doing this as Adobe Flash, as in the end of the day its main purpose and strength is to design and style GUIs for applications.

You cannot make flash .swf files with Expression Blend, those are produced with Adobe Flash. If I remember correctly, Expression Encoder might be able to import .flv videos, but not able to export .flv videos.

Hope this helps clear things up. If I answered your question, please mark as answered to help others facing similar issues.

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Answer 3

Hi pls help me. how to use flash animation in Microsoft blend?

Please help me....

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Answer 4

It is not possible to modify Flash animations directly in Blend. Check out this posting for suggetsions on how to convert SWF files to XAML, which can then be read in by Blend:

http://social.expression.microsoft.com/Forums/en/blend/thread/76e5c81e-adad-4f3e-b539-f422f67a2968