Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under Flash
11/14/2008
Adobe Max and MMA award nominations for Atlantic Records
Two projects to come out of the lab at Atlantic Records this year were nominated for awards. Fanbase Desktop, our multi-artist AIR application was a semifinalist for an Adobe MAX Award. While we didn’t make it to the final 3 in our category, we are hugely honored to be nominated. Also, the Jason Mraz mobile [...]
10/22/2008
Featured Speaker at the Adobe CS4 Launch Event in NYC
Tomorrow I will be demoing the new features of Flash, Dreamweaver and Device Central the Adobe Creative Suite CS4 launch event in New York City. At Atlantic we’ve been working very closely with several teams at Adobe and will be showing off some of our new work made possible by CS4 – specifically around the [...]
08/02/2008
Fanbase Print Press
Our new AIR application, Fanbase Desktop has been getting some really solid press online for a while now, but I wanted to highlight a few offline mentions that have been popping up lately. I was interviewed for Billboard Magazine about the app. Adobe put out a promotional print piece about Rich Internet Applications and we [...]
07/30/2008
Fanbase Desktop Launches, gets picked up by Billboard Magazine
Atlantic Records launched Fanbase Desktop Monday working closely with Adobe and Gskinner.com. I was responsible the strategy, information architecture and visual design for the multi-band Adobe AIR application. The purpose of Fanbase is two fold; to bring content about an artist from many sources into one application, and for fans to have a place to [...]
05/15/2008
SWFObject 2.0
SWFObject 2.0 improves greatly upon version 1.5 by adding some fundamental changes to how the Flash embedding technology works. Instead of having an all Javascript embed, and a HTML backup, there is inline object code to help degrade more gracefully in browsers with Javascript support disabled. Also there is no ugly, cumbersome js code in the [...]
05/14/2008
WordPress Based Flash Sites
We’ve been using WordPress at Atlantic Records to power several high profile sites, and my designers and I have been lamenting the lack of WordPress Flash integration. Tim Wilson at tvwonline has an elegant solution to this issue. He’s created a project called PressConnect that allows PHP and Flash to communicate to build Flash based [...]
05/14/2008
Papervision 3D
Papervision3D is an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform. They have really pulled out in front of other frameworks and are not only including z axis animation of Flash objects (postcards in space) but have 3D model support and Swift 3D export. Definitely something to watch. Check out Papervision 3D. They have a pretty exhaustive list of [...]
05/03/2008
Flash Version Switcher
Alessandro Crugnola at Sephiroth.it (who makes the awesome actionscript editor SE|PY) has released a Flash Plugin switcher for Firefox on Mac, PC and Linux. The functionality to switch between multiple Flash plugins has been around for a while on the PC, but it’s great to see it finally coming to the Mac. Get the Flash [...]
04/27/2008
Lightweight Flash Components
The component set in Flash has always left a little to be desired. First introduced as “smart clips” and then later as componenets they have always been a little bloated for my taste. I’ve been using Bit Components for years and have seen great file size reductions in my AS2 projects. Recently, I’ve noticed some really great [...]
04/26/2008
sIFR
We are using sIFR on a few of our sites, and people seem to be asking about it a lot recently. A short description and links below. sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that [...]
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