Alexander Radsby - The Kingdom

I haven't done a portfolio since 2006. So it's been a while. I have also been focusing on web standards, so I've totally forgot how to think when making a flash site. The thing with flash is that you can do anything you want. There are no rules, except usability issues of course.

Yeah I know what you all are thinking, but I love the interactive bit when working with flash. I'm a designer and I want to explore the possibilities, I'm not even sure if I want to do the whole web standards bit. Maybe I want to focus a bit more on advertising and campaigns. It's hard to decide. Love both parts of the web.

But back to the portfolio. This is the first time I'm making a whole site with actionscript 3. It's been an interesting experience so far and I want to share some libraries that I use:

First off is the BulkLoader, it helps out with loading assets such as xml-files, image-files, swf-files etc. And you can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/bulk-loader/.

Second is Tweener, helps you with your animations in a really easy way. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/tweener/

I couldn't live without these two. And I will probably always use them when I do my flash sites. Do you have any interesting libraries you want to share?

The last class we have at the university is called "Web development with Actionscript". So I've been messing around with AS3, Tweener and Papervision3D. And I must say that I'm impressed with what Actionscript has to offer.

Actionscript 3.0 is a major change from 2.0. It finally feels lika a real language. We developers that are used to Java, Javascript, PHP 5, C# will feel at home with Actionscript. It's based on the ECMA standard so it's easy to use and structured.

It takes a while to getting used to event based programming. I guess making flash projects are more like working with a software. But I love it. Finally some creativity into web development, the possibilities are endless.

I love that I have to deal with animation as well as functionality. I've missed doing the designer stuff. I will continue with AS3 even after the university studies.

I'll also post my degree project made in Flex Builder, Papervision3D, Tweener, Actionscript when it's done.

I decided that the best way to learn Actionscript is to force myself to only work with Actionscript. I now have 10 weeks of constant Actionscript programming in front of me.