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Flash vs Silverlight part 2

Here’s the recap from part 1: I turn up to Mix07 Eeek loads of scary net developers! Booo. They’re not that scary! Hooray! Shiny buttons. Soooo shiny. Oooo cool 3D in Blend! Yay! Oh it doesn’t work in Silverlight. Booo. Why use Silverlight? Streaming video. But Flash can do that! But not as cheap. So […]

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Flash vs Silverlight

I’ve just arrived home from a rather busy couple of days in London. I was the guest of Microsoft at their Mix07 conference. And by guest, I mean that they called me up the day before to find out if I could give a one hour long presentation about my work. But I like that […]

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Flash Sparkler

Just a quick post to show off one of the new effects that was in my recent FlashBelt session on particles. [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/sparkler.swf” width=”445″ height=”280″ FVERSION=”9″ /] I’m really pleased how this one came out, it’s a combination of a little spark particle and a smoke effect, although the smoke looks a little more like […]

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FlashBelt Particle presentation – source files

Here are the source files for today’s presentation. Download, play with them and then email them to me. sebleedelisle-particles.zip

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Flash Particles – now 1000% extra free!

Wow, just been rewriting my “Particles for the non-scientist” session into AS3, and as we all would expect, there are major speed increases. Here’s a quick example, click for massive particle bursts… [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/particles06.swf” width=”445″ height=”280″ FVERSION=”9″ /] I’ll be presenting this work at FlashBelt next week, and I’ll post the code up shortly afterwards.

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Plug-in Media lead FlashForward into the VORTEX OF THE DAMNED!

Over the last few months we’ve been working like crazy little typing elves painstakingly crafting the new masthead for the FlashForward site. It’s such an honour to be asked, so we’ve put far more work into it than we allocated, in order to produce something we hope is a little bit special. 🙂 [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/ffbanner/ffbanner_local.swf” […]

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Speaking at Adobe Live, FlashBelt and Flash on the Beach

Adobe Live Myself and fellow Plug-in Media director Dominic Minns have been asked to present a 45 minute session all about the work we do. We’ll be giving you an insight into the thought processes (ha!) and the tricky codey things behind the projects we make. We’ll be in the Web Theatre on Tuesday and […]