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After finishing SAE creative multimedia diploma I focused on programming in Flash AS3 and combining interactive skills with 2D and 3D animation. I now lecture and work on all sorts of creative projects and seek to expand my creative horizons whenever possible.

Adobe MAX 2011: Day Two

Adobe MAX 2011: Day Two

Franci Zidar on Oct 5th 2011 with 5 comments

MAX is Adobe’s annual conference, where they announce their new products and acquisitions, and give us all an idea of their current strategy. Last year they announced Flash’s 3D API, codenamed Molehill (now called Stage3D); AIR for TV; Edge, their new HTML5 animation tool; and more. There were also puppets. This year, long-time Activetuts+ writer Franci Zidar is at the event and will be filling us in on the details and sharing lots of photos. The second day’s keynote was aimed at developers – that means Flash and HTML5 news. Read on to find out more…

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Adobe MAX 2011: Day One

Adobe MAX 2011: Day One

Franci Zidar on Oct 4th 2011 with 1 comment

MAX is Adobe’s annual conference, where they announce their new products and acquisitions, and give us all an idea of their current strategy. Last year they announced Flash’s 3D API, codenamed Molehill (now called Stage3D); AIR for TV; Edge, their new HTML5 animation tool; and more. There were also puppets. This year, long-time Activetuts+ writer Franci Zidar is at the event and will be filling us in on the details and sharing lots of photos. The first day’s keynote was all about the Creative side of things. Read on to find out more…

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Blog Action Day: Clean up With a Beautiful Watery Game
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Blog Action Day: Clean up With a Beautiful Watery Game

Franci Zidar on Oct 15th 2010 with 7 comments

It’s October the 15th and Activetuts+ is again taking part in Blog Action Day! This year we’re aiming to raise awareness about clean water and water conservation. In today’s screencast, we’ll be building a vertical scrolling game, with a very watery feel..

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Create a Mesmeric Music Visualizer with HYPE
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Create a Mesmeric Music Visualizer with HYPE

Franci Zidar on Oct 11th 2010 with 4 comments

We’re going to build a music visualizer with the HYPE framework. Along the way we’ll make use of HYPE’s BitmapCanvas, Swarm and the SoundAnalyzer. Let’s get going!

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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Three
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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Three

Franci Zidar on Sep 17th 2010 with 2 comments

Last but not least, the third day of FITC San Francisco was marked by great speakers like Grant Skinner, Lee Brimelow and Yugo Nakamura.

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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Two
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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Two

Franci Zidar on Aug 31st 2010 with 0 comments

By day two at FITC it had become obvious to me that I had underestimated Flash as a tool for deploying all sorts of interactive digital experiences on the desktop as well as in public. It seems you have to see and hear first hand the different logic and technologies that go into creating these experiences to actually realize that you might be able to pull it off yourself..

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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day One
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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day One

Franci Zidar on Aug 24th 2010 with 3 comments

There’s been a sense of confusion in our industry lately. Standards are changing and there is a lot of discussion about where Flash fits in the future of the web. As a kind of therapy I decided to check out the FITC San Francisco and so far, I’ve found exactly what I was looking for..

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Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website: Part 3
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Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website: Part 3

Franci Zidar on Jul 20th 2010 with 75 comments
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website

In the final part of this tutorial, you’ll learn how to load Featured Work and News from XML files (keeping the site’s content easy to change), allow visitors to email you using a Contact form, add a preloader, and enable Full Screen mode.

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Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website: Part 2
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Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website: Part 2

Franci Zidar on Jun 22nd 2010 with 66 comments
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website

In this part of the tutorial, you’ll learn how to implement SWFAddress, which lets your users bookmark specific pages and use their Back and Forward buttons. We’ll also improve the scaling of the tile-based navigation bar.

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Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website: Part 1
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Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website: Part 1

Franci Zidar on May 28th 2010 with 90 comments
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Create a Full Screen, Scalable Flash Website

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create Flash sites that intelligently fill all the available space in the viewport, moving or resizing certain assets to make the best use of the space.

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