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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

HTML5 Banners

Imagine this scenario: Flash is definetely dead and it has been replaced by HTML5. I do not support this statement at all, but it could be.

So: What happens in that case with display Ads?

One the big advantages of Flash is that it is a program which can be used by many differente profiles, such as designers, animators and developers. In my work I give support to more than 50 creative agencies to make RichMedia Ads, the more of them are made with Flash. In my opinion all conventional banners are made by designers, and about the 50% of RichMedia Ads also, the rest need more developer/animation skills.

So, if the previous statement happens: What would creative agencies do?
To answer this we should go to the past. We must know that Flash was first a program for designers and animators, then, Flash progressed a lot, so many programmers also began to use it. And also many designers using Flash like me migrated and converted into designers-developers, what they called devigners.

But, to be honest, I don´t see these people moving to html5. Why? Because by now there´s not a wysiwyg program for html5, or is there?

Well, there´s a company called AdVine, Sprout, making something about this. This is called Sproutinc, the idea is this:

let´s see a video:

Sprout Studio Demo from carnet on Vimeo.

You can find more info about them in their website or in their blog

Also, Adobe has a word to say about this, as you can check in Adobe Labs

Also you can have a look at their video channel on youtube

I see this more advanced than Adobe Edge

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Analysis: Google Swiffy: Convert Flash to HTML

About a month ago we had from Google this extension presumely to transform Flash to HTML easily.

If you go to the website you can download it as an .mxp. I shall remind you that if you have more than one Flash version installed you could have a conflict with the Adobe Extension Manager. I had to unistall the previous version of it so as to run this extension.

Easy to install

Download the Swiffy Extension (.mxp file) and open it.Adobe Extension Manager will install the Swiffy Extension, making it immediately available to use from Flash Professional.

Export to HTML5 with one command

The new “Export to HTML5 (Swiffy)” item in the “Commands” menu exports your file to HTML5 and opens the result in your default web browser. Assigning a keyboard shortcut to this command makes it even easier!

Quick feedback

Information about the conversion process, such as features that are not supported by Swiffy, is shown in the “Output” panel, immediately after the export finishes.

So, you have it installed! And now?

Let´s make a simple banner with no Code, only timeline animation, with Actionscript 2 and exported as a .swf, you will have this:

Now, if you go to Flash > Menu> Commands > Export as HTML5 (Swiffy) you will have this advice first:

Later, your brower will open a new Tab, so if your .swf route was this:

whatever/300x250_timeline_animation_as2.swf

In my case: http://www.fernandocomet.com/blog/300x250_timeline_animation_as2.swf

Now you will have this:

whatever/300x250_timeline_animation_as2.swf.html

In my case: http://www.fernandocomet.com/blog/300x250_timeline_animation_as2.swf.html

And if you upload to a server and embed it

So, there´s no difference by now.

Let´s do this in Actionscript 3. You won´t have the Warning, and about the results:

Exported as .swf:

Exported with Swiffy as HTML5:

There´s no difference. I would even say that it´s easier in Actionscript 3 as there are no warnings.

So let´s try now with some code:

Do not try to do it in Actionscript 3, you will have this Warning:

Swiffy Flash Extension for Win v1.0.13 [Swiffy v3.6.1]

- Warnings -

Scenes are not supported.

ActionScript 3.0 is not supported.

In Actionscript 2 you can´t use blend modes.

The good news is that you can use Greensock library

For example in a banner in Actionscript 2 with this code:

[CODE]

import com.greensock.*;

import com.greensock.plugins.*;

function infiniteMovement()

{

textbanner._alpha=0;

TweenLite.to(textbanner, 1, {delay:1, _alpha:100});

TweenLite.to(textbanner, 1, {delay:3, _rotation:360, overwrite:false});

TweenLite.to(textbanner, 1, {delay:7, _alpha:0, overwrite:false, onComplete:onFinishTween, onCompleteParams:[4,bg]});

TweenLite.to(textbanner, 1, {delay:6, _rotation:0, overwrite:false});

}

function onFinishTween(parameter1:Number,parameter2:MovieClip)

{

infiniteMovement();

}

infiniteMovement();

stop();

[/CODE]

The result in HTML5 once exported is this:

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Stage3D Game: 3D Blue Race

3D Blue Race (Stage3D,Molehill,Flash11)

You need Flash Player 11 to play Stage3D Games:

http://get.adobe.com/fr/flashplayer/

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

How to play:

Complete the race track the faster possible.

Left and Right Keys to Steer. Up and Down Keys to Accelerate. Space to Stop.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Flash is dead, Steve Jobs is dead

Five statements about Flash totally misleading:

1- Flash is the devil, the virus of Matrix: This has become a Credo for fanboys
2- Flash is about games and porn: Not for Apps, Advertising, Websites, desktop applications or RIAs.
3- Flash is dead, Steve Jobs is dead: Probably they are but their memory and work will be always live.
4- Flash developers are mobile developers: Nothing to do, just a few %
5- AIR is the same as Flash: I would say Air has better fame than Flash, perhaps because of Android

Five conclussions:
1 -The death of the multiplatform developer
2- FlashPlayer is death, long live to AIR (remember: The web is dead, long live to Apps)
3- Adobe strategy has been really "strange"
4- Mobile has killed Flash, at least FlashPlayer
5- If you are a Mobile programmer, go to HTML5

Friday, December 31, 2010

Flash and Digital Interactive Summary 2010

Hi friends! Here´s my commented summary of 2010 from the digital, interactive, creative, tech and marketing point of view. The subtitle would be something like "Things that called my attention more in 2010".

January

It began with Google Nexus One. What was the reason for its fail? Probably the placement/store, I also think Android was not ready yet for that jump.

In Spain we discovered the animated series of Freaklance (freak + freelance) in relation to the advertising world. It was not Mad Men but amusing. Also we discoverd all the actions of Uniqlo together. I did like a lot this campaing against smokers from "I believe in Advertising", Canari

The most important point of the month was the publishing of the Digital Marketing Outlook. We look forward to hearing from them about this year!

View more documents from Sebastian Garn.

There were some nice videos about the tech future, see 8 visions of the future or these ones:

Vídeo Augmented Reality Domestic Robocop

The future acording to Microsoft

Lastly, for January I choose the site from Muji, Muji Rhythm, because of its integration between sound and navigation, although it´s not more online http://www.muji.com/rhythm/

February

We saw this Flash and video integration site from BlueJeans, Wrangler, something really surprising!

We had more about the war between Fash/HTML (I explain it later), saw the birth of Google Buzz (Where the hell is Wave?), this great history site of videogames, VideoGame Timeline, the Social Media Banners (banners linked with Facebook or Twitter) and had a bit more about Augmented Reality:

ZugSTAR - Streaming Augmented Reality

This is not a cereal box... New 3D experience by Dassault Systemes

Interesting sociodemographical study about State of the internet 2009

Also I liked Flavors.me, and this campaign from Skype, Skype Outside

March

March began with the launch of the new site from TheFWA. Them we discovered Google Chrome, it´s my default browser (has Flash plugin integrated), althought there are better extensions in Firefox, at least by now. Then Alice came from Wonderland. I liked it, but not all.

We had in Spain one of the first Flash Events, FlashDay directed by Xavi Beumala at the same time that AdobeCS5 was about to launch. This month we saw great campaigns of Richmedia as this one from Toyota or this from Smart, AdobeLabs Ideas was launched, a great power exhibition from Uniqlo, one site in the same way as Alice, "Follow the white Rabbit", and more videos from Ok Go.

I thik it was this month when we heart about AppVertising, as the end of LOST arrived.

April

Best places to work on Marketing, this list was published. Sincerely, I didn´t find my company on it, so I decide to look for another job. There were also good sites as Haiku Lovers, UTweet from Uniqlo, the Web Trend Map from InformationArchitects and some changes in the website of FullAsAGoog.

I liked very much this campaign against smokers. In Spain we are the last country to forbid smoking in pubs and restaurants, AntiSmoking Ads

In april I was able to ask for a trial of CS5, so I discoverd rotoscopy and Code Snippets Panels. We also saw kinStudio from Windows. Interesting online campaigns were this from Smart, this other from VolksWagen, blueyourfriends, and all that was done for the promotion of Avatar.

May

We finally found the Flash CS5 Documentation, no doubt this is the best version, as good as CS3, althought they shoud improve the Help.

We had more about the war Apple/Adobe, remember the Adobe campaign "We Love Apple"

and the answer from Apple "We #? Adobe"

I also remember this nice video about it

So, what happened really with this controversy Apple vs Adobe? This is how I see it:

To be truth many Flash programmers hoped to see Flash working on the iPhone. Adobe had prepared the iPhone Packager to compile from Flash to iPhone. It was not this way. The iPhone didn´t have Flash and neither the iPad. Jobs published his "thoughts about Flash" and banned all the app compilation from other platforms different to Objectice C (not only Flash, also Unity). So a war began!!! Mr. Jobs had on his side all his legion of Apple fanboys. They talked about HTM5 again and againg as it was the new Mesias. I remember a great confrontation between Flash friends and Flash not friends. I used to compile all tweets about it in my timeline.

And what happened? Adobe did his best betting on Android. Android grew and grew and the Smartphones market began to use Flash (Blackberry, Motorolla, HTC...) even the new upcoming tablets will have flash. Besides, it was proved that Jobs argues about the Flash processing on smartphones were TOTALLY a lie. Jobs was menazed by the antimonopolistic laws. It was clearly seen that HTML5 was not at his best (will it be as the semantic web that never came?). Android did his best, I bet you Android will pass iOS next year. Not only that, Adobe supported Flash and HTML5 from his speciallity: Technology. We could see in AdobeMax how to compile from Flash to HTML5, Adobe Wallaby: from Flash to HTML5 in one step

Apple gave up about their compiling restrictions, so every Appleboy shut up their mouth. Will we see Flash on the iPhone? We don´t mind. In my opinion, it was not about having or not having Flash, it was about dominating the Advertising market on smartphones and tablets (iAd), good try Mr. Jobs, but you are the Loser!

Nice sites of this month were: 42 Free Online Magazines For Designers, Irish Spring

The Google Job Experiment

VolksWagen supporting Flash.

I remember May 10th as the "Back to the future Day", or the 0-0 day, I´m talking about Twitter: 0 following 0 followers, you understand me.

Two new campaigns from Uniqlo, ColorTweet and Uniqlo Lucky line.

And this slides about Mobile revolution

View more presentations from Serge Jespers.

June

Essential reading for anyone in Digital

2010 Razorfish Outlook Report

View more documents from Razorfish.

We discovered Adobe BrowserLab and a good research from Eyeblaster which changed its name to MediaMind. Aparecen los banners en Spotify, por ejemplo este de Smart. Blogger amplía sus opciones. Otra campaña de Uniqlo, Sportweet.Lee Brimelow publica el Flash Community Believe Video, sale el iOS4 y está web en recuerdo de Michael Jackson.

July

We saw this interactive piece of Glastonbury 2010 Festival, later the design event #MADMMX, here my revision. I found on the web this place about workflow and advertising agencies, it´s just about one word: Subnormality (I´ve lived this my God!). There was also a Research from Mediamind about online entertainment.

Also it was published the Salary benchmarking of April 2010, you can check results here, besides here´s the AIGA Creativity Salary Survey:

Open publication - Free publishing - More design

Greenshock released TimeLineLite, and good sites to surf on the web were these ones: search the Troll, the Battle of the Cheetos, Lost in Val Sinestra, this visit to the science museum in London and AudioTool

Another video called Jobs Vader and the iPhone