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FITC Flash Awards Deadline Extended to March 6, 2009


FITC Flash Awards
Call for Nominations
Deadline Extended to March 6, 2009
Toronto, Canada [March 3, 2009] — The deadline for this year’s FITC Flash Awards has been extended to Friday, March 6th at 12 midnight (EST). Now in its 8th year, the FITC Flash Awards honor the best and brightest in the world of Interactive and new media design. To nominate an individual, company — or even yourself — go to http://awards.fitc.ca/main/.
Nominations are free for Canadian categories and cost $40 per entry for International categories.
Canadian categories include Best Studio, Developer, Designer and Student Website.
International categories include the best of: Flash Visual Design, Experimental Flash, Flash Game, Audio in Flash, Flash Narrative, Flash Motion Graphics, Flash Usability, Flash Animation, Flash Technical Excellence, Flash Advertisement, Flash 3D and Flash Self-Promotion.
Entries are judged over a three-week span by 50 industry experts and the awards presented at a gala event on Monday, April 27th during FITC Toronto. This year’s gala is hosted by satirist and former programmer, Phillip Kerman.
FITC Flash Awards Tickets:
Entrance to the 2009 FITC Flash Awards is free for FITC Toronto ticket holders or $20 at the door.
FITC Toronto Tickets:
Ticket prices to FITC Toronto range in price from $275 (CdN) for a Student Ticket to $750 (CdN) for a Festival Ticket. Go to http://www.fitc.ca/toronto for information or to register.
FITC Toronto – Dates, Times and Location:
Saturday, April 25 – Tuesday, April 28, 2008, 9 AM – 6 PM
The Hilton Hotel, 145 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada
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News from Sheridan …

The Sheridan Interactive Multimedia students have made a set of tutorials to show the
new animation features in Flash CS4 including:

MOTION EDITOR – now animation is handled like in After Effects

INVERSE KINEMATICS – apply a skeleton and drag or animate the bones

3D – you now have x, y and z and it makes it easy to animate with parallax
http://imm.sheridanc.on.ca/go/animation

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Flash & Flex Developer's Magazine

Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine

This is a highly informative magazine that has something for every Flash and Flex professional. While the January issue does lean heavily on the more technical and code side of things, there are articles of interest to designers as well. Some animation, some case studies and reviews. The review of Flash CS4 was particularly well done and clearly written by someone who has a lot of Flash experience.

I didn’t get a chance to review the included CD as my copy of the magazine was a pdf file – but wow! According to the list, there are a lot of neat and useful trials, project files and applications on the cd.

Overall, I found the magazine to be extremely informative and detail oriented. Articles didn’t just whitewash over things but actually covered pro’s and cons thoroughly. And not just of obscure topics but things that are useful on  a day to day basis like: what is Flex? How to use the XML Loader Class. Should I upgrade to Flash CS4? Flash and Flex SEO. Making Flash games for the Wii. And so on.

Highly recommended and I can’t wait to get my hands on the next issue.

Reviewed by:
Paula R. Mould
Flash Developer
www.dnagroup.ca

Visit the website: http://www.ffdmag.com

Please note future changes to the magazine include:

More pages – 100 pages (was 84)

They will be getting rid of the CD – the new download section is going to be open to all FFD members.Bi-monthly(was quarterly)

http://forum-en.ffdmag.com/ – FFD Forum where you can find some answers to the questions, or you can help others.

The article submission to the June issue #4 (3/2009) is opened – feel free to send your article idea. ( The title submission deadline is 13th February, the final deadline is 19th February).

New pdf subscription offer for just 7.99 (per 6 issues)  http://www.ffdmag.com/prt/view/subscribe.html

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Speaking at FITC Toronto 2009

I’m really thrilled to be speaking at FITC this year!
I’ll be moderating this Panel Discussion

Reality Cheque – Running a Freelance Business
It’s everything you should have learnt in school but didn’t! Topics will include:

  • How much are you really worth? Setting your rates.
  • Should you sign on the dotted line? Contracts – friend or foe.
  • Taxes – don’t spend it all on beer and popcorn!
  • You sent out what? How to market yourself successfully.

And FITC is offering 100 festival tickets to any women who would like to attend. All you have to do is submit a video of why you want to go.

Find out how to get your ticket!

See all you Flash Goddesses at FITC!

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Netdiver's 2008 Best of the Year

Netdiver Best of the Year is always a long awaited release of which projects and whose talents have made a strong and lasting impression in the previous year. We aimed to list 100 and just could not. So how about 110 because we feel they gave their 110% best?

Now in its 7th edition, the crop of the year is for us, the top of the year. Hope you agree. Refresh your memory and (re)encounter new sources of design inspiration.