Chet Haase (an engineer on the Flex SDK team) has published a book on Flex 4 called “Flex 4 Fun”. If you know anything about Chet’s passion for graphics you won’t be surprised to find chapters on graphics, filters, states, transitions, component skinning, and animations.

You can get a taste of the book itself by reading this excerpts: Pixel Bender with Flex 4 or states and components. You can buy the book from here and you can see the content and the application examples here.
Enjoy!
good book
but i can not buy it in china;
how pity it is!!