Often popularized through the rise of amateur animation sites like Newgrounds.com, the Shockwave Flash format, or SWF, is also well known when it comes to modern interactive websites.

Vector-based graphics, though often complicated in creation, are useful when they need to be resized without a loss in quality; in addition, the resulting files can be very small in size. With recent improvements in the SWF standard, audio and video files can be embedded in a single file to create prepackaged Flash movies, sometimes compiled with a stand-alone player (called a “projector”). Other related file formats, such as Flash Video (FLV), are often used in conjunction with SWF on video-sharing sites like YouTube.com.

About this file: the image on the left is a “vectorized" picture of a PDF tutorial I made, Draw Simple Buildings Using Two-Point Perspective, which you can download here.