FlashintheCan 2004

2004-04-03 00:00:00 2004-04-06 00:00:00 America/Toronto FlashintheCan 2004 The FlashintheCan (FITC) Festival celebrates digital innovation and creativity, continues to raise global awareness of Canadian digital innovation, and celebrates Ontario and Toronto’s leadership in digital media. Toronto FITC Toronto

3D Interactivity
Redefine the way you look at your Flash canvas and your design space. Rather than a rigid 2D stage or fixed space where you position and move your graphics; think… Read more…
Inspire
Glyn Thomas
Glyn Thomas
Actionscript for Designers
In merging design and programming, Macromedia Flash offers designers the unique opportunity to control the functionality and create and complete their vision of a dynamic website. By having a solid… Read more…
Web Dev
Matthew Zoern
Matthew Zoern
ArtCardTecture
An in-depth case study looking at the proccess of creating the ArtcardStudio – a graphic layout/ ecard application incorporating video, sound and interactivity. The study will focus on the underlying… Read more…
Web Dev
Minty Hunter
Minty Hunter
Aural Stimulation
Sound is perhaps the most integral part of any interactive communication. In this session Swann will illustrate the many ways in which audio can be successfully incorporated into Flash projects.… Read more…
Inspire
Craig Swann
Craig Swann
Bringing Life to Flash
Protistae. One-celled organisms. Perhaps the simplest living things on our planet. Created from limited set of parts, and drawing from a limited set of behaviours, protists move, feed, and reproduce… Read more…
Web Dev
Jeremy Thorp
Jeremy Thorp
business.swf
Business sophistication has become increasingly critical for survival in the Flash industry. Zoubin Zarin will look at some of the business challenges faced by independent freelancers, specialized Flash studios, or… Read more…
Business
Zoubin Zarin
Zoubin Zarin
Converged Content
CBC Radio 3 produces weekly radio programs and Web sites from its offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Toronto. Its been recognized around the world for its interactive work on projects… Read more…
Web Dev
Loc Dao
Loc Dao
Creating Immersive Experiences
James will go over the ideas behind creating engaging and immersive user experiences. The idea behind this presentation is not to present the complicated code and math that was required… Read more…
Web Dev
James Acres
James Acres
Data Integration with Flash Interfaces
Today, designers and developers alike need to know their options for building successful, efficient, enterprise-level RIAs, or Rich Internet Applications. In this session, Robert Reinhardt, Director of Multimedia Applications at… Read more…
Web Dev
Robert Reinhardt
Robert Reinhardt
VideoRX
Delivering Local + Web Applications
Flash applications don’t have to be limited to an online environment. Although Flash has a small footprint, it’s also rich enough to be delivered in local applications. Attendees to this… Read more…
Web Dev
Jessica Spiegel
Jessica Spiegel
Designing Realtime Applications
There are so many things you can do with the Flash Communication server: video conferences and presentations, shared text areas, snapshots, time-lapse photography, shared cursors, avatars, video/audio/text message boards, Web… Read more…
Web Dev
Brian Lesser
Brian Lesser
Developing Games in Flash
This presentation will demonstrate that Flash is an ideal environment to develop online games because of its ability to integrate art, audio and animation and its scripting language. Veronique will… Read more…
Inspire
Véronique Brossier
Véronique Brossier
Developing RIAs for PocketPC
Have you ever developed an application and thought to yourself how great it would be if it could be portable and accessible anywhere? Have you ever gone on a trip… Read more…
Web Dev
John Cowie
John Cowie
Differentiated Design Solutions
Many design firms prefer to offer task-specific services to a client as a way concentrating to a certain market. From 3D animation, photography and multimedia, to graphic and Flash design,… Read more…
Web Dev
Dynamic Abstraction
In John Maeda’s new upcoming book “Creative Code” published by Thames and Hudson (rel. 2004) I was given the opportunity to write an essay in the chapter addressing “dynamic abstraction”.… Read more…
Inspire
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis Studios
Engaging the Interactive Impulse
Building interactive user experiences can be a very elusive task. This is largely due to the fact that the user plays such a central, yet unpredictable role in this relationship.… Read more…
Inspire
Andries Odendaal
Andries Odendaal
Enhancing narrative development with Flash MX 2004
This lecture is targeted for creative types who have the courage to experiment with Object Oriented ActionScript in order to create and narrate interactive stories. In an effort to suggest… Read more…
Inspire
Paul Ortchanian
Paul Ortchanian
Enterprise Applications with Flash and LiveAxiom
Rich Internet Applications represent a new opportunity to revitalizeapplication development for small developers and the corporate ITdepartment. We will discuss the benefits, design patterns, and techniqueswhen using Flash and LiveAxiom… Read more…
Web Dev
Tom George
Tom George
Exciting simplicity
We will discuss the approach and process used to create exciting endresults while effectively delivering simple messages and clarity forthe user. ‘Simple’ does not have to mean boring, and ‘exciting’certainlydoesn’t… Read more…
Inspire
Extending Macromedia Breeze
Macromedia Breeze provides the industry’s leading web conferencing application, delivered entirely in Flash. In addition to providing a full set of conferencing tools to provide effective and engaging on-line meetings,… Read more…
Web Dev
Giacomo Guilizzoni
Giacomo Guilizzoni
Extensible Framework in AS 2.0 for RIA’s
This presentation addresses the appropriate use of framework methodologies and design patterns to effectively create distributed flash MX applications. This presentation is intended for anyone who wants to learn about… Read more…
Web Dev
Samuel Agesilas
Samuel Agesilas