Craig Campbell’s School of Flash

I just wanted to apologize for the long wait between posts. Things have been crazy in the Campbell household lately. We’ve got a kid on the way, we’re in the process of looking for a new house, we just found out that my wife has gestational diabetes, and we recently got back from a week-long vacation in Pagosa Springs, Colorado (during which I learned how to fix some delicious fried chicken).

Hopefully, now that things have calmed down a little bit, I’ll be able to post some more tutorials soon. In the meantime, here’s a picture of the view from the back porch of the cabin where we stayed in Colorado. (Photography is one of my many passions.)

Christian Sparrow is a self taught interactive designer, and after looking at his website, I couldn’t help but share it. The website has what I sometimes like to call a “paper doll” feel to it, and even though that isn’t really the best way to describe it, you’ll see what I mean when you get there.

One of my favorite things about Christian’s website was his portfolio. It’s immediately apparent from looking through his work that he isn’t married to any one particular style. He’s got a great vision for style, and he’s not afraid to experiment with different ideas and methods . . . something we could all learn from.

Anyways, drop by Christian’s site and let him know how awesome he is!

To be honest, I haven’t had time yet to check out the new Beta release of Flash Player 10, but there are a lot of exciting new features that every Flash programmer should be excited about. Foremost among the new features is the native support for new 3D Classes within ActionScript. Flash Player 10 still uses ActionScript 3.0, but it also supports a number of new classes and methods that will make working with 3D a walk in the park.

Since I haven’t had time to check out these new features, I’ll have to point you elsewhere for tutorials. On the FlashAndMath.com website, there is a great tutorial to help you get started playing around with 3D for Flash Player 10.

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