title: Resources about animated splash art
body: <p>I have always been fascinated in these stuff: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/" rel="nofollow">Blizzard's "live" banners</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://beta.euw.leagueoflegends.com/" rel="nofollow">Riot's "live" character splash screens</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Do they have a specific name I could google and teach myself the art of creating them? I have experience in graphics rendering, but I assume some far less complicated tricks are used to achieve the illusion of 3D and animation in the current examples. I also assume, that Flash is the most convenient platform to build such effects. I am not interested in actionscript tutorials, rather the specific techniques to make banners look like "3D" and "alive".</p>