January LA Flash User Group Meeting

FREE EVENT | NO RSVP | NO WEBCAST

First LAFU Meeting of 2008!
Wednesday, January 16th, 2007
Meeting: 7 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Rich Media Institute, Venice, California (http://www.richmediainstitute.com/contact/)
525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291

For the FIRST MEETING OF 2008, LAFU brings you two great presentations!

1) AS3 code-based animation with Troy Gardney
2) Using a Tripped-Out Mad Phat Cool Audio Visualizer in Flash with Omar Gonzalez

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7:15P
Title: Go Tweeny!

Description: Get off the timeline, with minimal pain! Troy Gardner of
(www.troyworks.com) will be demoing the open source, high performance
tweening engines named Tny and Tweeny, that will allow you to create
interactive moving pieces without complex script requirements.

- Tny is a incredibly small (1.9K!) tweening engine,with support for
color and sound tweening. We'll see how to use it to make a simple
banner ad, and a starburst.
- Tweeny the bigger brother supports familiar playHead play(), stop(),
gotoAndStop, gotoAndPlay looping, yoyoing. making it familiar to those
used to using MovieClips. We'll see how to make a site nav.

http://troyworks.com/blog/2007/12/10/as3-how-low-can-you-go-tny-a-18kb-t...

Bio: Troy Gardner is the principal of Troyworks, a small interactive
agency focusing on RIA apps, and educational games. In his spare time
he likes to take things apart and put them back together again.

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8:20P
Title: Using a Totally Tripped Out Mad Phat Cool Audio Visualizer in Flash

Description:
Omar will cover his VisualizedSound class, which is a wrapper class (that works in Flash and Flex) for using the Revolt visualizer project done by Antti Kupila ( http://www.anttikupila.com/ ). Omar will discuss how to use this super-powerful class in Flash, running through a basic implementation, as well as other features available with the class. Omar will conclude with a discussion of the effect presets that come with the Revolt project and how to create your own effects to use with the VisualizedSound class.

Bio:
Omar Gonzalez is a Senior Application Developer at Almer/Blank, who has been developing for the web since 1997. He developed a strong sense for developing accessible sites employing Web Standards, open source projects and frameworks like Drupal and CSS. During the quick rise of Flash he began to incorporate the popular technology in the sites he worked on, adding Flash development as well as PHP and MySQL to his repertoire.
He has developed Flash video applications for companies like Eharmony, and has spoken at conferences like FITC on topics including Flash Video, Motion XML and AIR. Over the past two years he has been developing Flex applications, harnessing the power of Flash Platform technology to create cutting edge rich Internet applications. Omar is on the resident faculty at the Rich Media Institute, teaching topics in Flex, HTML/CSS and web development and he is an active member of the LA Flash user groups.