Seattle Flash User Group

To Motivate and Inspire all Flash Users

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Location

731 N 35th St, Seattle, WA 98103
In the downstairs meeting room, 6:00-8:00
(206) 684-4084
Every 1st Tuesday

Using Flash to create character animation for mobile device games

May 1st (The First Tuesday of Each Month)

Fremont Branch Library #8206; (map)

Jason Fruchter will share with the group the character animation he created for an iPhone app called "Zangadoo". http://www.zangadoo.com The game features a cast of Australian animals on an adventure through the outback in search of the way home. Each character in the game is animated to reflect their unique personality.

Jason will discuss how he works with the developer to provide the animated sprites for the game. He will demonstrate various techniques used to create character animation in Flash based on the traditional principals of animation. These techniques include: squash and stretch, anticipation, follow through, and overlapping action. All this jumping, waving, and dancing animation my inspire Jason to jump around the room himself!

Come on over and get animated with Jason!

ActionScript Adventures will contuniue with Kevin Kimmel.

How to Join this Group

Simple, just make sure you are signed into Adobe.com with your Adobe ID (e-mail that you use to register product). After you have signed in a "Join the Group" button will be displayed on the right. Our monthly meeting are always free.

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Past Meetings

April 3rd: Inverse Kinamatics.

Teresa Anderson covered setting up and animating with the bone tool. Kevin Kimmel demonstrated the usage of the Random in his ActionScripts Adventures.

March 27th: An Evening with Mike & Lee on Flash.

The Future of Flash – Mike Chambers: The focus of this Flash build is on gaming and video. That doesn't mean theat that animators, bannor ads and application developers are out of the loop. Flash is for what you can't do in a browser. Besides flash, HTML5 and edge is also important. Build assets in flash and export for Edge. Flash will still do what it does but it will focus for gaming and videos. There is also support for outputting applications for ISO and Android devices.

Adobe Gaming Technology – Lee Brimlow: Console games are moving to Flash. Developers using Flash to create apps for ISO and Android devises. Lots of cool new improvments in Flash. New updated Flash player and air. Gaming.adobe.com

November: 8 Minutes on Flash. Members gave short presentation for a chance at great prizes.

October: Jason Fruchter showed us top animations and how he created them.

Jason creates excellent work including Dora the Explorer for Nickelodeon. http://www.aandjstudios.com

September: Design and publish HTML websites without writing code - Noam Almonino of the Muse team.

Learn how you can create websites as easily as you create layouts for print using MUSE (in beta). You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code.

Good References: Article in Adobe's Inspire online magazine on MUSE, More details and download beta, Muse Videos

August: The Return of Antonio Holguin for “Flash Mobile Hands on Workshop”. Antonio gave a preview of the workshop he will be conducting at Adobe’s MAX event this year; if you’re going to MAX this presentation is well worth your time, if you will not be at MAX check out Antonio’s tutorial here.

June: Want scoop on the local Flash and other digital-media job market? Curious about top skills and how to get noticed by hiring managers? Heather Simmonsen from The Creative Group finds freelance and contract work for hundreds of digital-media professionals in the Seattle-area. Creating and Presenting a Powerful Portfolio.

May: 8 Minutes on Flash. Members gave short presentation for a chance at great prizes.

April: Antonio Holguin demonstrated New Features in Flash CS5.5 for Mobile Applications. He also discuss how to build your apps and some tips, tricks and best practices for good performance and design. Antonio is a Adobe Community Professional and a Designer in the Mobile and Devices Group at Smashing Ideas.

Antionio's Blog

March: Revisit of the Peg Puzzle, Speaker Kinsey Fobes (http://www.fobes.com/) The Peg Puzzle is an old tutorial by David Brebner. You can find this in many places on the web. If you want to check out the original tutorial please feel free. We will be converting this puzzle to AS3 with external ActionScript files, fixing several problems and even adding some basic animation. Kinsey is also teaching an Introduction to Flash at Renton tech (http://www.rtc.edu/).

February: Canceled due to weather.

January: Building “Plants vs. Zombies” in Flash
Max Anderson from PopCap games will cover traditional game architecture and the update loop, tradeoffs in the Flash graphics API versus PopCap’s native PC graphics API, animation, font rendering, sound and music systems, and resource management.

Max's Presentation from Adobe MAX
Emanuele Feronato's site on building Plants vs. Aliens