Staying current with the latest flash/animation trends these days is hardly an easy task. Movéo has been working with clients to explore more user/experience orientated creative.
it is important to be able to offer new and exciting concepts to take an online campaign to that next level. So I set out to Digital Bootcamp (a training facility/school for everything interactive) to get familiar with Actionscript 3 (or AS3 for short). Now, in a single seven-hour day of nothing but a downpour of new and complex information, you can expect to only dip your big toe into the surface of AS3’s vast capabilities.
I was excited to find out that I was the only student taking the class, which meant I was in for some quality one-on-one time. I’m sure it was hard for my instructor to not try to speed ahead, but I felt as though I was grasping the concepts really well. Before lunch I was up to my neck in terms like strong typing and inheritance (and no, not the type where you get a nice old set of silverware). The rest of the day went great, reviewing the basics to cement them in my head and going over some specific actions related to online banner design, which I do a lot of here at Movéo. AS3 offers an amazing opportunity to develop more enhanced animation options with less file size and easier updating capabilities. I’m eager to learn more and to begin to implement my teachings to our online capabilities. So next up on the docket is the formidable eight-week Actionscript bootcamp … stay tuned.
Author: Joe Razza, Interactive Designer
