Flash is a wildly creative medium and ActionScript 3 is amazingly powerful. But many designers and developers find it incredibly frustrating to get up to speed with these tools, and even then, working with AS3 can be quite time-consuming, requiring the investment of a significant amount of up-front effort in the planning and setup of your Flash movies, before you can actually get anything done. This is frustrating for anyone, but particularly so for creative talent. When you have an idea, you don't want to spend half a day setting up your class files (if you're even comfortable doing that) before you can express it. You want to start expressing yourself immediately! And that's exactly what this workshop will show you how to do. In this intimate course, internationally-renown Josh Davis will lead students through the concepts of rapid-prototyping creative work in Adobe Flash. Josh will illustrate how to start building fun, creative, and rewarding Flash work in minutes instead of hours, utilizing the HYPE AS3 framework (developed by Joshua Davis and Branden Hall). All students will leave with tons of source files, including the HYPE framework, and many samples of how to use it for the rapid expression of creativity in ActionScript 3.

Who this course is for:
 
Skill Level: a basic understanding of Flash and ActionScript is essential

Course Outline:
 
Write your own programs using Flash AS3 Objects/Classes, to create unique interactive and animated compositions. In this workshop, students will use Adobe Flash CS4, ActionScript AS3 and the HYPE Framework (the HYPE Framework is a collaborative visual framework developed by Branden Hall and Joshua Davis). Advance your basic Flash design skills to develop working prototypes of interactive design and animation, presentation of concepts to speed up production, and achieve more flexibility.

http://hype.joshuadavis.com

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