According to this article in WIRED, it may be happening after all!!

Yes, converting your flash content for the iphone ?!

Adobe is adding support to its Flash Professional CS5 developer kit to convert software written in Flash into standalone iPhone applications.

Many of us have been waiting & hoping for this to happen.

dreaming of selling your flash application and games over the  Appstore…?

this may happen..but one day at a time

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Hello and welcome to FLASHARTIST.

Today I will demonstrate how to create some cool collage type character animation using Flash CS3.

this is the example movie I will be using for this tutorial.

The first step is to create your collage character in a photo editing software such as Photoshop or Firework. you need to break down the character in separate layer for each body part.  as shown below

Go to Flash and create a new document 720×576 / 30 frame per seconds  ( broadcast setting )

Locate and import your layered document to stage .

Make sure your character is  layered  with each part of the character on separate layers,

head

torso

leg left

leg right

arm left

arm right

Once imported on stage  each body part should be on a separate flash layer

Now select the head and press F8 to convert it into a Movieclip

- Name the movie clip HEAD and select the FREE TRANSFORM tool.

- Click and drage the IK point to the most realistic rotation  point (around the neck area)

Using the FREE TRANSFORM you can rotate the head side to side and locate where you feel is the best IK point.

Repeat the same operation for each body parts; the arms, the  legs and the torso. replacing the IK point as required for each .

Once done , select all the keyframe copy and paste them in a new MovieClip that you can name Walkcycle.

Once all the layer are in the new Movieclip go to frame 10 and insert a keyframe for each layer.

Go over the timeline RightClick and create a Motion Tween for each layer.

That’s it! Now the fun bits, the character is now ready to be animated using the FREE TRANSFORM tool.

Here is a bit of walk cycle reference.

Getting a walk cyle right is one of the trickiest thing to get right in animation, as a guideline for this example make sure that the first and last frame of the walkcycle are the same so that it  loops seamlessly . you can use the onion skin tab to help with the animating.

You should get something like that

Now to create the background, in this example I have created a deck scene out of recycled images, the trick to simulate movement is to make it super wide to scroll / pan  from one end of the scene to the other.

Make a new MovieClip and import your background image, convert it into another MovieClip and using tweening animate your backgound from left to right.

Finally Go to the main stage and compose your scene using the 2  movieClips of the walk cycle and the animated background

Once you are happy with your animation publish as a quicktime file for further editing.

download all the project files here

Sony Ericsson is expected to release a new smartphone later this year , the device is named “Rachael” .  It will feature a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, HSDPA and an 8 megapixel camera, therefore  great processing power for downloadable android apps, but one big question remains,  will it handle the Flash player ?

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Submit your flash apps to the Open Screen Project, this project awards grants to help developers create exciting new Flash lite content & applications for use on Nokia platforms and devices .All types of applications that incorporate Flash Lite can be considered, but those  that make the most of Nokia’s platform capabilities are most likely to catch the interest of the judging panel.

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Adobe and HTC, a global designer of mobile phones has  announced that the new HTC Hero is the first Android phone to ship with support for Adobe® Flash® Platform technology.

The HTC Hero phone will come with Flash Lite 3.1, allowing ActionScript 2.0 coding. It will support Sorenson and On2 VP6 codecs for higher quality video and playback of existing Web content.

This is looking very exciting and since the new iPhone sadly can’t handle flash content I might go Android .

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200906/062409AdobeandHTCBringFlashPlatformtoAndroid.html

HTC HERO is is due to be released on July 15, 2009 simFree from Amazon.co.uk

Flash on the Beach 09 is back in Brighton September 20th-23rd

Tickets will go on sale on Monday at 10:00AM UK time !!!

http://www.flashonthebeach.com/ For more info.

Great Music video from London director Laurent Arhuro.