Facing Obsolescence?

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  • kingsteven0

    Stop thinking of yourself / calling yourself a Flash designer.

    I'm in exactly the same situation, designer w' primarily Flash dev experience 10 years/ 'AS 2.5'.

    Skills aren't all technical and most are transferable. I like to believe that all those years working independently of standards based design gives me a bit of an edge when it comes to creating original design concepts.

    Once you start getting in to HTML5 and it's related technologies you'll realize that almost everything that separates them from Flash lies in the process of creating within the Flash IDE. Macromedia's usability rush with Jakob Nielsen from '01 - 05 plugged a gap temporarily and brought many new developers to the platform but has little to do with it's recent popularity (mostly down to online video). ATM less Flash (as a standard) doesn't indicate the death of Flash; instead we may get more Flash content where Flash is the most appropriate tool for the job.

    At the weekend I prototyped a 3D engine in Flash that displays a model created algorithmically based on the time and sine and cosine. The client has had the equation for two years (it's part of a bigger project to display 'cybertexts' that repeat every 24 hours.) I could have written the same thing in Processing JS or Cocoa. I could have animated it in C4D or AE but I knew it would be quickest with Flash. In 2 days I had a prototype online and we've got the contract for app development off the back of it...

    may the spirit of Flash always be with you.

    • " I like to believe that all those years working independently..." lol!PIZZA
    • everyone believes something :-Dkingsteven
    • I also prefer working with musicians because they're often more open to critique and have better communication skills...kingsteven
    • vaxorcist's comment below is more or less the point i was trying to make...kingsteven

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