Inspiration..

I could’ve quite possibly just saw the most inspirational speaker there was this afternoon. His name is Erik Natzke, and for once, I don’t think you can really classify him as a Flash designer or developer, yet more of a Flash Artist. To be openly honest, what I saw I cannot explain in words. Instead, I took a few video clips using my camera and felt the need to share with everyone who wasn’t lucky enough to be a part of it. I’ll apologize now for the low quality, this was shot using a camera and not being able to balance it.. Without wasting more words, here they are:

Hope you enjoyed those as much as I did..

Day 2.. part 1

Today I am getting a little time to blog during lunch, so I thought I’d quickly throw up what I heard this morning and what I liked.. So I’m STOKED about Flash CS4 coming out, as well as Flash Player 10 and the new Device Central.

The new flash is going to be great. There are new 3d engines built in to adjust the z-coordinates, as well as a new tweening engine that looks amazing. Other features they talked about were pixel bender which will allow you to create your own bitmap filters, the ability to read/write to local files much easier and a brand new text engine that will allow for better looking text, as well as multiple languages within a single text box.

These features alone have me pumped, but there were many others they said we would have to wait on. The other products coming out sound great as well. After hearing how Adobe itself views AIR, I think I might have to start dabbling into that a little more on my free time.

Overall, great to hear about the new products coming out and how they will change what we know now. Thankfully, they told us there is no plan on creating Actionscript 4 in the near future.. Thank God!

Few Images from today…

A quick snapshot of the new Flash CS4

The Adobe team

First real post..

This is my first REAL blog post ever..  I wonder if this is a beginning to a long road of blogging.. Hopefully not.

Anyway, we will be using this to allow our web team to follow us for the few days we are in San Fran for this conference.. Stay Tuned!