Chris Georgenes of www.mudbubble.com showed some animation techniques.
Unleash Your Debugging Arsenal
Paul Ortchanian of www.reflektions.com demoed debugging techniques in Flash. He spoke about "unit testing" which is basically tracing every line of code as you program to test assumptions. He posted some valuable unit testing components and his notes at:
http://www.reflektions.com/lectures/
The O'Reilly Radar
Tim O'Reilly of http://www.oreilly.com/ gave a lecture. This is the famous technical book publisher. They have a new magazine called MAKE.
Lunchtime
Chevy's Fresh Mex. Great fajitas, Batman!
Cut, Paste, Animate: Collage Animation
Evan Spirellas from www.jibjab.com gave some very informative demos on his collage animation techniques. He designs large for TV then scales down for the web. Kim and I attended a Q&A afterwards where we got to ask him questions face to face. He was very generous with his techniques and advice.
Less Ordinary
.Erik Natzke of http://www.natzke.com/2002.html showed some amazing Flash effects and ads he created for HP. His site speaks for itself.
Closing and Raffle
None of us won anything.
Evening
We took a bus to Fisherman's Wharf and had dinner at Cioppinos. We found a beach then took a cable car back to the hotel.
No comments:
Post a Comment