PixelBlitz welcomes Richard Davey

It has been a while since I have made a post. I have been really busy at work and I have been trying to get a new game going. Richard Davey over at PhotonStorm has been adding some really cool stuff to PixelBltz. He has also created a permanent home for PB as well, www.pixelblitz.org. I am very excited to have another person working on this with me and am really starting to feel like this could turn out to be pretty big. I hope to have an updated zip of the project soon.

Flash CS4

Adobe made their  official announcement for CS4 yesterday. I have already seen a very mixed opinion on Flash CS4. I honestly am excited about it. Being an artist and a developer, I can still definitely appreciate features such as bones, and object-based animation. Flash did start as an animation package, so it is nice to see adobe going back to Flash’s “roots” a little bit. On the design side, one thing I would love to see more than anything is an improved renderer. Now I know that is no small task, but in my opinion it is necessary. Unfortunately, it is one those features that won’t really sell a new release. The current renderer does OK in most situations, but there are many times when I see my art get jaggy, blurry, or distorted. I am also excited to start playing with PixelBender. I know it has been around for a little while, but I have been waiting for the official release to start learning it.

Another good looking mobile OS with no sign of Flash 

This is starting to really bother me. Google released their Android mobile OS this week and no Flash. With the iphone it was easy to blame Apple for a flash-less mobile experience, but who do we blame now? I just wish Adobe would start gaining some ground for us in the mobile market. I have seen many iphone apps making absurd amounts of money and can only imagine the possibilities when we finally get our shot.

-Norm

Hello World!

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I have finally found the time to get this blog going. I hope to contribute and share as much as possible with a community that I have learned so much from. In the not so distant future I will be posting various experiments I have created. These may come in the form of sketches, animations, or most likely as a hybrid Flash coded experiment. 

- Norm