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A tutorial showing you how to create a skin KingnareStyle skin using FlexBuilder 3 and Flash CS3.
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One of the frustrations of being busy with client work is the lack of time to investigate, experiment and play with interesting stuff. One day I'll have time to try all this stuff but until then, here's a simple list of the flash/flex tools I'd like to play with. Maybe you'll find something interesting here...
I am more than proud to announce that we won the Grimme Online Award in the category “Special”. It is the most prestigious award in Germany releated to new media. Hobnox has been picked out of 1900 nominees and we made it.
The category “Special” has been introduced to cover high quality and highly innovative projects [...]
I am more than proud to announce that we won the Grimme Online Award in the category “Special”. It is the most prestigious award in Germany releated to new media. Hobnox has been picked out of 1900 nominees and we made it.
The category “Special” has been introduced to cover high quality and highly innovative projects [...]
Just found this blog post today from Colin Moock on the new XML based file format (XFL) that will be available with Flash CS4. This is great news and since its XML based and not binary like FLA, I thinking this could make life easier for companies with big projects and lots of developers to [...]
It surprises me that one of the most commented upon and downloaded classes from my blog is a card flipping effect. With that in mind, I thought it might be an interesting exercise to recreate this effect targeting Flash Player 10. As of the writing of this article, Flash Player 10 Beta (Astro) and the corresponding API documentation have been released. This article will step you through the classes used to achieve a card flipping effect using the new rotationY property that exists in Flash Player 10.
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With a great feeling we’re pleased to inform you that we managed to win at Russian Flash Awards in two categories — “3D” and “Technical achievement”. Anton Volkov and Vladimir Babushkin flew to the capital to take part in a ceremony. They’re back with some diplomas and two strange-shaped prizes.
The present from Adobe is an invitation to represent Russia at Adobe Max 2008, this December in Milan.
Thank you everybody for your support and critics!
I surf the web, my feed reader, twitter and a lot of the other information sources. Often I find I want to use a highlighter or otherwise annotate my reading material just as I would of done back in college (mabye a little less liberally with the highlighting). Jing is great for this and I’m [...]
It’s amazing how much the world of software development is changing. What was once a clandestine affair now extends to early public alphas / betas. For those not quite so inclusive, a Flickr stream of UI screenshots lets the masses get involved.
Why screenshots of the UI? Like it or not, everyone considers themselves a UI [...]
No, not the music Pandora, this Pandora:
I’ve been following this for a few months now. Looks like a really cool device. Prototypes recently released to select developers. Should go on sale this month or next. Since my wife and daughter discovered my DS Lite and stole it from me, this may be my next toy [...]
After yesterday’s rather well received Papervision3D session, I’m now gearing up for what will probably be the last time I present my particles session, Kaboom!!! Blowing things up in Flash
I feel like I’m laying a close friend to rest, they’ve been with me through the years, the ups, [...]
The Flashbelt 08 conference started this morning with a warm welcome by Dave Schroeder, the big chief of the conference. He mentioned that there are free posters and tshirts for everyone … wooot :-).
Then the Adobe keynote started. First Mark Anders (senoir principal scientist Adobe Systems) started to talk about what already happened in the [...]
Warning: this demo needs some CPU time to init!!!
After the some work on animation, I came back to the extrusions classes. The next one to be added to the growing collection is Mirror. This class allows you to mirror the geometry of a given object3D, that it's an ObjectContainer with more Object3D nested inside of [...]
Here are the source files for today’s Papervision3D, Simplified session. Enjoy!
While I was last minute preparing my session for Flashbelt (tomorrow afternoon) in the Flashbelt hotel loby at Minneapolis today I started building a clone stamp tool in Flash. The concept is the same as you know from Photoshop. But afterwards I was thinking to misuse (+?) it to create some generative art thingy with [...]
Ooops I get a Delta airlines reminder that I have to leave in about 10 hours. This means that Flashbelt 08 is coming closer I am really looking forward to this conference. Flashbelt has a really impressive speakers list and I am very happy to be part of it this year. The speakers list [...]
If you are looking for something similar to flvtool2 or flvmdi, or you are a command line junky then I strongly encourage you to check out MP4Box. MP4Box has a ton of capabilities, but I’m just going to highlight 4 fundamentals:
Read file info (basic metadata).
Split or cut files.
Merge two or more files.
Convert to iPod.
Read basic [...]
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through a typical project workflow from preparing graphic symbols in Illustrator CS3 to importing and animating those symbols inside Flash CS3.
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I spent about 15 minutes in the Google Code twilight zone this morning. For some reason when hitting the SWFObject 2 Google Code repos (via a Google search) I wasn’t finding anything on the wiki, downloads page or any source in the repository.
An empty wiki page.
Downloads MIA.
I tried to hit the SWFFix dev blog to [...]
Last year I ran an intensive, one day workshop on ActionScript 3 covering a wide range of topics including AS3 / AVM2, migrating from AS2, runtime errors, the event model, the display list, regular expressions, E4X (XML), loading data and assets, optimization, and more. Today I released all 167 slides from the workshop...
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