Introducing FilmStrip

I'm proud to present FilmStrip, an AS3.0 library that lets you process code-based animations to video with natural-looking motion blur. Please read the full article at Animoto Labs.

Sample video (MP4, 800k)

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Animoto wins Webby!

Animoto nabbed a real-life 2009 Webby folks, under Services and Applications -- and we won the People's Voice award as well so thanks for your votes!

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Flash on Tap session update: ‘Proof of concepts’

My session at the Flash on Tap conference will now head into the uncharted waters of Flash multi-touch tables and rendering simulated video out of Papervision3D. We've just recently spruced up our Animoto Labs blog where you can get more information on my session.

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New half and doublespeed options

We've recently added the ability to make videos move a little slower or a little faster. Here's one on slow speed, which gives each photo a little more facetime.

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Make sweet video holiday cards with Animoto!

Online holiday cards are usually worth a chuckle but no one really pays much attention. At Animoto we've released a special card service that is truly meaningful because the content you send is really your own photos. It lets you create a high-quality music video from your photos instantly, then wraps it in a beautiful greeting card page with a special 3D intro and outro! Your family will love it.

Check out this sample card then go to Animoto's home page and click "holiday greeting" at the bottom of the page to make your own, they're free!!!

Animoto holiday cards!

You'll also see that we're offering the "gift of animoto" – a gift membership worth $30. Well if you like the holiday card feature, post a positive comment here saying what you dig about Animoto and I will gift you a free pass!

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Visit Elliot Smith cover art on street view

Fans will recognize the cover of Figure 8, a street mural in L.A.

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SelectiveBitmapDraw classes: draw just specific child objects or DisplayObject3D’s to a bitmap.

Sometimes you need a Bitmap to capture nested containers from a flat top-down perspective, but you're really just interested in drawing one or more of the nested objects and not others. This utility works by quickly toggling the visibility of other children off, then restoring it after draw(). Use a SelectiveBitmapDraw instance with the standard display list or a SelectiveBitmapDraw3D instance to capture specific nested DisplayObject3D's in a PaperVision3D scene.

Available here: http://www.mosessupposes.com/utilities

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GoASAP & Fuse featured in Open Source Flash book

Because Flash is a proprietary plug-in technology and its coding language evolved gradually over about a decade, it took a while before the words Open Source meant anything to its developer pool. But when it hit, it hit hard: Aral Balkan's seminal site OSFlash introduced an already-thriving community to a whole new world of licensing code for the purpose of free and easy sharing, modification and reuse. Open Source took off in the Flash world and some of the most powerful software ever produced for the Flash Player is available for free, such as the incredible Red5 media server and the mighty PaperVision3D.

Friends of Ed is now giving you the chance to catch up on this little revolution with their new book, The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development, and I'm proud to say that I'm one of the contributing authors! My chapter covers several Open Source animation tools that I've released for ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0.

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Green-leaning startup from two original creators of Flash

If you've ever read up on the history of Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash [2] [3:video], you're probably familiar with the names Jonathan Gay and Robert Tatsumi.

Their latest startup venture is called greenbox, an "interactive energy management platform that enables households to save money and reduce their carbon footprint." The venture is backed in part by former Macromedia CFO Betsey Nelson and CEO Rob Burgess.

Earth2Tech blog: Greenbox: Flash Creators Tackle Energy in the Home
Wired.com: Flash Creators Reveal App for Saving Money on Energy

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Processingjs: Processing in JavaScript!

What a cool idea! John Resig has successfully ported the Java Processing API to JavaScript. Expect to see a lot more Flash-like effects on HTML web pages in the near future!

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