September LAFU

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Meeting: 7 PM - 10 PM
Location: Rich Media Institute, Venice, California (http://www.richmediainstitute.com/about/)
525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291
Event Link: http://laflash.org/node/1051
FREE EVENT | FREE PARKING | NO RSVP REQUIRED | NO WEBCAST

- Matt Inauen, Software Engineer at Almer/Blank, presents on new game release
More information to come.

- A tour of Wildform Flair - Flash and video presentations made easy
http://www.wildform.com/products/flair/
WildForm Flair brings together key features typically found only in multiple different programs including PowerPoint to Flash conversion, screen recording, quiz and survey creation, Flash video encoding and a WYSIWYG Flash authoring environment. This presentation will introduce you to Wildform Flair and highlight some of the software's capabilities.

Jonathan Blank is an entrepreneur, technologist and filmmaker. He is currently the founder and CEO of Wildform, a video, presentation, and animation software company that created Flix, the first Flash video encoding software. (In 2005 Wildform sold the Flix software line to On2, a company that creates cutting edge video codecs.) Currently, Wildform's flagship product is called Flair which was described by PC Pro magazine as software which, “offers everything you need to produce impressive results…That’s extraordinary power and value!" Flair is a robust and easy to use multimedia presentation program. The award-winning software has received outstanding reviews and testimonials from Wildform’s customer base which includes virtually every Fortune 1000 company. In addition to creating consumer software, Wildform has licensed its technology to leading companies such as Sony, Quark, Autodesk, and Adobe.

- Patrick Ortiz on Building a Panoramic 360 Virtual Tour with PV3D
This presentation will involve building a simple 3d virtual room with mouse drag navigation. He will using basic papervision techniques and a pre-made panoramic image to create a virtual tour. He will also cover how to do a video version of the virtual tour.

Patrick Ortiz is a Flash developer who's original background was in C++ and started working in flash in the late 90s. He has a passion for games and music and Flash. His latest addiction is Papervision. He has worked on such projects as the 21 Movie international site, Jada Toys "Chub City" interactive map, and Disney. He currently works at Sapient a leading international interactive design firm in Santa Monica. His current project involves using papervision to create 3-d carousels and 3-d virtual tours.