Adobe Touch App Family | Touchscreen tools | Touch apps
Adobe Touch App Family | Touchscreen tools | Touch apps.
They’ve launched! Adobe introduces their suite of Touch Apps and I can say, after trying the Photoshop Touch App on a Galaxy Tab first hand at this year’s MAX conference, it was pretty darn cool.
Side note: I’m lucky enough to have been chosen to receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab loaded with Adobe’s Touch Apps in an effort to provide real-world testing and feedback. Stay tuned for some up close and personal information regarding these tools on the go.
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Thanks to Paul Trani and Samsung, I have been chosen as part of a handful of “influencer” to test Adobe’s suite of new Touch Apps on Samsung’s latest Galaxy Tabs. I’m super excited to have this opportunity and plan to push these apps and the hardware they live on to their fullest extent. Stay tuned!
Read MoreDownsizing: Adobe Flash Style
Twitter feeds have been blowing up in the past 24 hours ever since Adobe announced they are no longer going to support the Flash Player mobile browser plugin. Social feeds quickly embellished this news as “Adobe kills Flash”, and “Flash is dead” with predictions that the desktop version is next or at least should be. This behavior reminds me of a childhood game called “Telephone” where you whisper a short phrase in your friend’s ear, they repeat it to someone else and your story goes around the room until it gets whispered back in your own ear as something completely different. The only difference is that with today’s rapid-fire social mindset, the game only requires two people, in this case Adobe and anyone with a Twitter account.
For those of you who love to use Flash for animation and are hearing tweets and blogs announcing the death of Flash, don’t worry, Flash is far from dead. There is a lot more to Flash than a mobile browser plugin for Android devices. Check out what Thibault Imbert (Flash Player Product Manager) and Lee Brimelow (Adobe Evangelist) have to say, they may ease your mind as to the future of Flash. Adobe understands that very few people are developing for the mobile Flash player and the best way to deploy mobile content is in the form of native apps.
But there is validity to thinking that perhaps, this is the beginning of the end for Flash as a platform. We can only wait and see. Yes, I still use Adobe Flash on a daily basis and yes I am learning Adobe Edge at the same time because it’s new and probably the best chance for designers and animators to easily author content for HTML5. Better to get in on the next big technological platform while it’s learning how to walk.
As a modern day designer and animator, it’s important to me to understand the direction the industry is heading and how I can evolve my skill set to stay afloat. It would be negligent of me to ignore the tangible technological shift to HTML5 but it would also be silly to completely abandon Flash as an animation tool. I have faith in Adobe to develop Flash in away that allows me to keep up with current industry trends. But the bottom line is, there will be, for the foreseeable future, an internet, mobile devices, games, motion graphics and interactivity – all needing design and animation of one kind or another. The thought that the authoring software used to develop for these platforms may not be Flash is probably me just being a little bit sentimental. After all, it’s been over eleven years of using Flash almost everyday. That’s a long time spent with a software program. It has almost become an extension of myself. Losing it will be the worst break-up of my life. I’ll have to get all my CDs back and that favorite black T-shirt I used to wear for days on end.
The loss of the mobile Flash player is nothing compared to the loss of 750 Adobe jobs. That’s 750 family’s directly affected by this decision and many of those who now find themselves unemployed are friends of mine. I’m realizing now I may never get the chance to see them again. Conferences, on a social level, may never be the same. The news of the layoffs hurts a lot more than the killing off of a mobile browser plugin. Software is just software, there will always be another program for me to adopt. But friends are irreplaceable and the thought of no longer working with them and raising our glasses year after year at Adobe MAX will sting for a long time to come. My best wishes to all of you. Now get out there and create some cool start-ups!
Read MoreDesign Breakthroughs – Adobe Seminar
WHAT:
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 “Design Breakthroughs” Seminar – Boston.
WHEN:
this Thursday, November 3rd.
1:30pm – 4:30pm (Registration starts at 1:00pm).
WHERE:
The W Hotel Boston
100 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 261-8700
Directions – http://www.starwoodhotels.com/
AGENDA:
The detailed agenda can be found at http://www.adobeeventsonline.
PRIZE DRAWING:
We will be raffling off a Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium (an $1,899 value) chosen randomly from the evaluation forms. You must be present to win.
2010 Holiday Animation
Gearing up for this years’ holiday card, I thought I’d re-post the one from last year…
Adobe Flash “Speed” Feature
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use the “Speed” feature in Adobe Flash. If you use the Bone tool (Inverse Kinematics) you may find this hidden gem useful.
Adobe Sneaks Posted!!!
If you weren’t at Adobe MAX last month (best MAX ever!), you can now check out this year’s sneak peeks! Impressive stuff!
Read MoreGSN Lingo for iOS!
After several weeks of design and development, we’ve finally launched our Lingo app in the Applle iStore!
GSN Lingo for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad on the iTunes App Store.
Frog Day Afternoon (animation test) on Vimeo
Frog Day Afternoon (animation test) from chris georgenes on Vimeo.
Read MoreInkling by Wacom!
Wacom is completely blurring the line between drawing on real paper and drawing digitally! Seriously, this is seemingly impossible yet it now exists! Thanks Wacom!
Mudbubble on Facebook!
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Forums back up…
…and running for the time being. Depending on activity, interest, spambots and other deciding factors, the keyframer forums may be suspended until further notice.
The reason for this is my time spent battling spambots and maintaining the forum software. That time doesn’t really exist. I may limit the amount of forum topics to include Flash, HTCIF and maybe Photoshop.
That is the state of affairs this fine hurricane weekend here in the northeast
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Still here…
…but it’s obvious that this site has been pretty stagnant in 2011. It’s not for lack of content either! My absence has been due to an overwhelming amount of work this year – which is a good thing! First of all, I am settling into my role as a creative director for the Game Show Network (digital) which is challenging and fun at the same time. I’m also busy with a brand new book title with Focal Press and I’m really excited about it.
It’s also worth mentioning I’m busy preparing for my role as speaker at Flash On The Beach (Brighton Beach, England) and Adobe MAX (Los Angeles) this fall.
Oh and it’s summer and any “free” time is spent with the family, friends and on the beach or golf course. As a result, the websites have been neglected. Apologies if you keep returning with hopes of finding new content.
Getting Animated about Intuos4 with Chris Georgenes
Getting Animated about Intuos4 with Chris Georgenes
How do you put it all together when it comes to creating animation? It’s the culmination of all the down and dirty techniques that the pros tend to keep to themselves: Character creation and rigging, setting up scenes, file management, exporting, video editing, sound recording and all the little details that have you banging your head against your keyboard at 2:30am before a deadline!
In this informative webinar, we are going to take a ride with Chris to see what it takes to make a quality animation come to life, and how he has woven the Intuos4 pen tablet into his creative process.
If you are a designer, artist or simply someone who is interested in “moving†people with your work, grab a stylus and strap yourself in for an animated time in Flash with Chris Georgenes!
Read MoreFlash Decompiler Trillix
A while ago Eltima Software sent me a copy of Flash Decompiler Trillix for the Mac platform. I was so impressed with this application that I also featured it in the latest edition of How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS5. That said, I recently had an old SWF file but had lost the source FLA. I ran searches on every hard drive I own but came up empty. To rebuild the source file from the ground up would have been a lot of work and I simply did not have the time. One quick solution would be to import the SWF back into Flash but that will place all animation on a single layer as all keyframes. All tween data will be lost. Importing the SWF also excludes layer information, sounds and ActionScript.
Occasionally importing just the SWF is not enough – you need to get back everything; layers, sounds, ActionScript etc…
I’ll admit, I was skeptical that Flash Decompiler Trillix would actually work as advertised. Flash files can be quite complex given the varied amount of data any file can contain. The SWF is essentially the flattened and compressed version of the source file, how could all of its contents be extracted and put back together again as they were in the FLA file? That would be like getting the contents of an egg back into its shell after having made the omelette.
Flash Decompiler Trillix does everything it says it can and with just a couple of clicks with the mouse.
Recently I had lost a FLA file but found the SWF that was exported from it. With Trillix software, I was able to quickly convert the SWF back to a FLA again and keep working. Trillix software has become one of my most valuable tools in my arsenal.
Convert SWF to FLA with Flash Decompiler Trillix for Mac from Eltima Software on Vimeo.
Read MoreAdobe Flash Professional CS5.5
Multimedia designer, interactive multimedia | Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5.
Adobe has just announced the release of a major update to CS5. Check out the link to see what’s new for Flash. I will try and post my own articles here before the actual release
Wacom’s Intuos 4 Touch Ring coolness
So I’ve been using the latest Intuos 4 tablet from Wacom and if you are not already taking advantage of its ExpressKeys and Touch Ring integration with Photoshop and other design applications, what are you waiting for? Check out this video from Joe Sliger, Wacom Application Specialist. The Intuos 4 is Wacom’s best tablet to date and it has increased my work flow significantly.
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