Flash 8 Workshop with Grant Skinner

If you’re in the Toronto area, and are looking for a quick way to learn all of the amazing new features in Flash 8, this two day workshop might be for you. I’ve been spending a lot of time researching EVERY (seriously) new feature in Flash 8 Professional, in preparation for this workshop (and my MAX talk), and there is a lot of great content.

Here’s the marketing babble:


Join internationally recognized Flash guru Grant Skinner for this intensive two-day workshop; the fastest way to get up and running with all of the new features in Macromedia Flash 8 Professional.

Targeted at intermediate and advanced Flash users, the session will provide a thorough exploration of the new authoring and player features. This will be integrated with detailed discussion on applying those features via ActionScript 2, inlcuding concrete implementation examples.

Topics include:

  • General interface improvements

  • Illustration enhancements

  • Filters

  • Custom tweening

  • Slice-9

  • FlashType

  • New video features

  • Image manipulation with BitmapData

  • Applying bitwise operations to color data

  • Mastering matrixes (gradient, transform, color, convolution)

  • File upload/download with FileReference

  • Javascript integration with ExternalInterface

  • Optimization strategies

  • Player enhancements

Attendees should be comfortable working with Flash MX 2004, and have a basic understanding of ActionScript 2 and core programming concepts. A laptop is strongly recommended but not required.

Toronto, ON Canada

Nov 11-12, 2005 (Fri-Sat)

Ryerson University (Map)

Oakham House/Student Campus Center

63 Gould/55 Gould, room number is SCC11, 2nd floor

South West corner of Church Street and Gould Street

9am-5pm

End marketing babble.

I think this workshop will be a lot of fun, it’s certainly a fun topic – much more visual than my last workshop on OOP. It is also a lot cheaper than my previous workshop – we’re trying to make it accessible to any professional Flash designer or developer that’s interested.

I might be bringing this workshop to other cities as well, right now I’m looking at Edmonton, LA, and London (UK) – feel free to comment if you’re interested in seeing it somewhere else.

For more info, check out the official page. You can order tickets here.

Grant Skinner

The "g" in gskinner. Also the "skinner".

@gskinner

4 Comments

  1. Hi Grant,

    I’d love to see you come to Vancouver…if you have the time.

  2. yeah, me too. Vancouver. It’s only 10 hours out of your way.

  3. Would be great if you would visit the European

    mainland too; especially Brussels as it is the European capital 😉

  4. …and Albuquerque, New Mexico too.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *