Go

Some exciting news:

I will be joined on stage at FlashBelt by Donovan Adams of Scifi.com and Jud Holliday of ZAAZ!

Donovan has been doing great work on HydroTween. It has a Tweener-like syntax plus sequencing, it’s compact (one extension class), very fast and does a load of fancy tricks: color & HSB tweening, filter tweening, 3D tweening with automatic scene updating, start properties and more. Tween groups and sequences as quick as you can say “Fuse.”

Jud and Graeme have been taking a nearly opposite approach at ZAAZ, with a fully OO strictly-typed tween library (and sequence extensions), but no syntax parsers so far. Graeme’s also been working with John Grden on expanding his Go3D library. When this library lands it’s gonna be with a thud, and my guess is that it will become a standard in the Go community.

Why I’m excited and honored to have these guys co-present with me is that their different approaches really illustrate the wide range of possibilities with Go. There is no wrong answer!

I hope to get a chance to talk a bit more about Go’s decoupled management architecture. This is one feature that makes Go unique and so sexily flexible. While other kits “bake in” management features and lock you to them, this is a way to be able to infinitely expand the automated side of your animation tools, while leaving them entirely optional for the end user. ‘Managers’ – it sounds dry… but in fact it’s a richly creative opportunity. For example I made an AutoBlurrer manager that adds horizontal and vertical blur to any moving object based on its velocity.

The other point of excitement around FlashBelt 2008 is just the killer lineup of speakers, one of the best I’ve seen at any conference.
http://www.flashbelt.com/

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