James Paterson
Session
Session coming soon
Workshop
Art From AS3
If you are anything like me, then you like taking a peek behind the scenes at how other people work, seeing how they do things differently, and taking away whatever useful insights you can to use in your own work.
In this workshop I will taking you step by step through the process of building a small and highly visual Presstube project from start to finish.
This Workshop is Aimed At:
- Visual people who are comfortable with code but want to take it to the next level.
- Hard-core coders who want to be able to apply their coding magic to graphic material created by others, while insulating them from having to think about code ( or potentially mess the code up! ).
- People who are curious about the point at which hand-made material and code collide, and how fascinating that friction point can be.
What Will You Get From This Workshop?
- Attendees will learn a seamless workflow between the flash authoring environment as a graphics suite, and flash builder as a coding environment. There are many ways to skin this cat, and I will be sharing mine.
- Attendees will learn a simple roll-your-own MVC system that I use to keep things tidy, encapsulated and modular. If they already understand MVC it will be a chance to explore my particular flavor, and if they are new to MVC then it will help to demystify this classic meta-pattern.
- Attendees will learn how to create projects that are highly skinnable. The aim for the demo project will be that a visual person with no knowledge of programming could change all of the graphics without touching a line of code or even recompiling the code at all.
What Prerequisite Skills Do You Need?
- Must have a good working knowledge of AS3
- Non-coders will be lost
What Hardware / Software Do You Need?
- Laptop
- Must have Flash CS4 or Later
- Must have Flashbuilder