This coming Wednesday will be our regularly scheduled FlashMN meeting!
And this month, the speaker is… you. That’s right, I hope you’re prepared, we’re doing a show and tell! 
So, come with something you want to show or talk about for ten minutes give or take. Either be it on the web, or on a laptop you can connect to the projector.
Just a reminder that there will be no December meeting.
November 19th, Judah Frangipane (yes, he’s back from California for now!), will be presenting on Flex skinning, among other things. This will also be a perfect time for everybody to tell Judah how awesome Minnesota is and how he should stick around.
This month the meeting date has changed.
Tuesday, October 14th, Dustin Tauer will be presenting CS4. Don’t miss it!
Same time, same location.
There have been many times in my life where I look at something that I
have wrapped, built, coded, or designed and said to myself, “Those
colors don’t look quite right.” At these times I usually hang my head
in shame and move on, not fully understanding the problem or knowing
where to look for a solution.
Thankfully for me (and hopefully for you too), John McCaffrey, a
Multimedia Design Instructor at Hennepin Technical College, will be
engaging our group in a presentation about how we can begin to address
the issue of “color” in our projects. His topic description follows:
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“Making good color choices does not have to be hard. All it takes is a
plan. Learn just enough (and hopefully a bit more) color theory to be
dangerous.
Combining a bit of science, psychology, history, art, and modern
technology you will learn how we process color information. Armed with
this information you will be able to develop your own plan to use
color effectively.
We will examine how color is implemented in some of the different
design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash). Learn how to manage
color between the different applications. Learn about the strengths
and weaknesses of each application when working with color.”
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Please join us on Wednesday for John’s presentation!
When: Wednesday, August 20
Social: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Wrap up: 9:00 PM
Where: Easel Training, 23 Empire Dr., St Paul, MN 55103
Sincerely,
Toby Cryns
FlashMN
Vice-President in Charge of Sending Meeting Notices
The Asteroid’s Game From Scratch in 60 Minutes with sound effects and all, with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS3
I’ll create the Asteroid’s game from scratch in 60 minutes. No ActionScript experience required. If you’ve coded
before you can follow along and see how easy it is to make web based games with Flash CS3.
If you want you can bring your laptop and follow along or just hang back and watch.
The recorded meeting is located here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p20254452/
The source files can be downloaded here: asteroids_src
June 18th, we have an exciting event coming up this month. Robert Bilyk, the founder of Lodestar Learning™, will be presenting on flash learning resources in LMS systems.
There will also be a software giveaway this month!
For a recording, go to:
Join us on Wednesday at Easel Training in St. Paul! The meeting will feature a presentation by Dan Krueger (Best Buy) about web services in AS2 and AS3. Following that, Nick Bilyk will share and demo a sweet new photo gallery site that he and I built recently. (http://www.jdunnphotography.com)
ALSO, We are interested in having you present your work at FlashMN meetings! Have you done some cool work recently that you would like to show off? Did you learn a cool Flash trick that you would like to share with the group? If you would like to give a 5-minute demo or an all-out presentation at a future meeting, please email me at toby[at]themightymo[dot]com.
Doors open at 6:30.
Dan starts his presentation at 7.
See you there!
Toby Cryns
The Mighty Mo! Design Co.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Easel Training
23 Empire Drive
St. Paul, Minnesota 55103
Topic: GPS Technology & Photo Manipulation
Networking: 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Presentations: 7:00-8:15 p.m.
Social: 8:15-9:00 p.m.
Who: Anyone with an interest in Flash is welcome to attend!
First, Daniel Holth will share his work on a new Mapquest application he helped to create that uses GPS technology to connect photos with their geographic location on the globe. The application, MapMyPix, utilizes AIR and Flex 3. Daniel will discuss the process they used to create the software as well as his experience utilizing AIR.
Next, hang around as Toby Cryns presents a workshop on unleashing the power of Photoshop in your Flash applications. He will discuss new features in CS3 that make integrating those two pieces of software easier than ever. Also, as an added treat, Toby will walk you through the basics of getting some amazing effects in Photoshop, including: converting images to Black and White, getting the “rockstar” effect, and creating beautiful vignets!
Please register so that we can get an accurate head count for pizza!
As always, we thank The Creative Group for providing the pizza and Easel Training for providing the space and other technical support. Please give our sponsors a hug when you see them!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
6:30 PM
Easel Training
23 Empire Drive
St. Paul, Minnesota 55103
This month we learn about video! Chuck Preston will be giving a presentation on H.264 and a couple people from Video Ant will be talking about the project Video Ant and going from conception to completion. It sounds like there will also be some knowledge on video streaming.
Agenda:
Food at 6:30.
Presentation at 7:00.
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