Illustrating In Illustrator 101 Part 2 of 5
on Jan 5, 2009 in Digital Art Tips Adobe Design grids guides Illustration Illustrator pen tool perspective sketches Construction Wether I am illustrating an imaginary device or something I use everyday, it is good to understand how the object is or should be constructed. Other information like functionality, and how these objects are interacted with are very impor...

Flash Actionscript 101, The First ActionScript I ever learned
on Dec 21, 2008 in Flash AS2 to AS3 Tips Actionscript 101 AS2 to AS3 AS3 Flash image loader Learning flash This is it, the very first bit of actionscript code I ever learned, besides play() and gotoAndStop() of course. The lesson went down with an experienced programmer looking over my shoulder telling me what to type. After this little app was finished,...

A Simple Game Engine Using Random
on Dec 1, 2008 in Flash AS2 to AS3 Action Script 3 AS3 demo Flash flash game game development game engine Howto Random sample Tutorial Using Random in Game Development, with strict guidelines, can bring some variety to game play. This sample is not a single solution but an approached I used in developing Whacky Voting - a politically smashing game. It uses random with some strict r...

10 Flash/Flex streaming video tips
on Nov 27, 2008 in Tips AIR encode Flash Flex flv stream video In a Birds-Of-A-Feather discussion group at Adobe MAX last week. No remarks were planned, It was supposed to be a discussion, we hoped to talk to other developers about what’s new in using Flash video. We did not get a bunch of new information..

Adobe MAX 2008 day one
on Nov 18, 2008 in General Info Adobe Max AIR Flash Flex The first day of MAX has ended at 10:30 pm Monday night. East coast time is taking it’s toll, but I know I am not the only one. I just finished moderating a video tips group that was full of drooping eyes. Today was a success with 4 new t-shir.

MAX continued
on Nov 17, 2008 in General Info 2008 Adobe AIR Flash Flex keynote max Tour de Flex Max keynote is available online now. keynote I cannot do it justice from my iPhone, so check it out. Updates: Apparantly the keynote video does not live at the address I placed above, that is what was on the big screen at the end of the keynote. sor...

Abobe MAX 2008 San Francisco
on Nov 17, 2008 in General Info Adobe Max AIR Flash Flex keynote Adobe MAX 2008 kicks off with Shantanu Narayen, Adobe CEO. I will do some live blogging from MAX. All post are being typed on my iPhone, due to my broken laptop, so do not expect a lot of details. Over 5000 in attendence. Followed by 2 more MAX conf...