Although still at the beginning of his career as a director, Matt will discuss the journey from the fine-arts and design to the world of moving images. This transition could not have been done without technology playing an integral role. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

Sometimes drawing outside the lines means not just drawing a whole new shape but linking two different shapes together. With this presentation Ana will look at some examples of innovative storytelling projects that don't necessarily reinvent the wheel, but evolve it a little. From the re-conceptualization of the graphic novel to the re imagining of film, hybrid media can sometimes push the boundaries more than any new form we may invent. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

We will cover techniques from projects that use alternative means of creating 3D objects, compositing rendered stills into a 3D-like environment, displaying 3D assets in a non-3D environment and adding 3D as a detail or interactive component in the Flash experience. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

Thierry Loa (Dr. Hello - www.DoctorHello.BZ) will elaborate on the latter question and will therefore propose answers. He will discuss how philosophical knowledge and observation can have positive influences in our life and work. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

Insight into the development process of large scale projects plus a first hand demonstration on VizualPv3d, a 3D authoring tool that can help you develop natively within Papervision 3D. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

There are algorithmic systems that generate beauty. This presentation will be a survey of the designs & animations created by these systems, and a discussion of the code used in their creation. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

Attending the FITC festival in San Francisco, Managing Editor Julie Campagna interviews designers, developers, and digital artists about what they find innovative and inspiring in today's ever-evolving world of Flash.

Colin Moock delves into the world of multiuser experiences, showing, among other things, how to turn your phone into a big-screen multi player game controller.

Join FITC as we introduce to you some of the coolest Flash work in Japan, right here at FITC Toronto.

In this session, Brett Rampata from Adobe’s Experience Design Group will unveil a new “Casual Social Game” platform that integrates with Facebook and leverages Adobe AIR’s unique capabilities. Brett will walk attendees through the “disruptive” desktop experience built in collaboration with MTV and Jackass, and provide a behind-the-scenes look into how it was created.

This presentation will introduce the iPhone SDK to aid in iOS development by using terms they already understand, by comparing the elements of the iPhone SDK to elements used in Flash. We'll do side-by-side comparison of Objective-C to ActionScript. We'll compare a few functional examples of tasks that you know how to do in ActionScript, and show you how to do them in Objective-C: parsing XML, loading images, saving preferences, animating graphics.

A behind the scenes look at the Conception + Design + Development processes used throughout Grupo W's projects. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

The Arduino hardware platform has brought data capture from physical devices to within reach of everyone including Flash developers. This session will explore the ins and outs of the Arduino board and how to connect them to Flash.

Giant projects can be scary if you don’t have a good process. Get an inside look at creating the Konductor AIR application with a focus on team development. Konductor combines an advanced CMS platform with an AIR based content editor that leverages the webkit engine to directly manipulate HTML. This session will be technically framed – a start to end examination of topics such as scope definition, developer and designer workflow, agile principles, iterative experience design, build processes, development framework, and quality assurance.

Join Sisu and Mstudio for a technical session on best practices and decision-making processes for freeing content from Drupal to utilize within Flash. We’ll take you through examples that demo various methods currently available to help you determine what will work best.

Find out how some of the most well known interactive shops have become as well known as they are. (Hint, it's not just about the work!) This session will focus on the various techniques we can all use (from studio to freelancer) to market our work, promote our skills, and attract the kinds of clients we want. We will also discuss the role that awards and contests play in the art of promotion, as well as some ways to make yourself a guru in the eyes of your clients.

Online, your portfolio is all you've got to mediate your talent. Get essential ingredients, quick steps, check list, do's and dont's to help self-promote efficiently and kick your butt into gear to build a strong presence that brings in the money.

Marcos Chin, who is best known for his illustrations for the ubiquitous advertising campaign Lavalife will show samples of some of the work that he has done for other clients such as Time, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. He will include some insight into his image-making process using Adobe Illustrator and will talk about his experiences of balancing his personal projects with his commercial illustration work.

In this session, Zach will discuss how to use Flex to build desktop applications that target the Adobe Integrated Runtime. Starting from a birds-eye view of the runtime, discussing features and the question of "Why AIR?"

Joshua Hirsch discusses important aspects of the team's approach and process. The focus on collaboration between disciplines, the importance of culture and work environment, and making time to explore alternative techniques and new technologies.

You've been told to think outside the box, but where can you go to find the most interesting and focused ideas? Go beyond the edges and learn how to be a better creative where there is no box.

"Harvest' is the title of James Paterson's upcoming (Jan 28 09) solo exhibition at Biforms Gallery in Chelsea, NY. The exhibition will be showcasing a series of strange home-made computer games and some related drawings and paintings.

This year's theme is SPACE. What does "Space" mean? In this presentation Josh will walk you through his process into some threads of this theme and see what kind of unexpected results we can come up with.

Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time. Learn more about it in this FITC presentation.

Flash player 10 supports a new "Flow Protocol" for Real Time Media and adds a higher fidelity audio codec (Speex). Lear all about RTMFP in this episode.

Attending the FITC festival in Amsterdam, Julie Campagna interviews Adobe Flash developers and designers from around the world to find out how the economic downturn has affected them.