Designer’s Dilemma

I’ve only been able to see the adobe flash cs4 from one of those vlog (video blog) sites, but judging from what I saw, I think it is generally safe to assume that photoshop, illustrator, indesign and all the rest have gone through a major upgrade as well….

All right, so based on the Adobe Flash CS4 preview, I’d say the Adobe team has given the power back to the designers on this one…… as actionscript 3 (object-oriented concepts) is too far-fetched for designers to understand, which is why even with the option of AS2 in Flash CS3, it seemed weak compared to what programmers can do with the software using AS3, not to mention, with so much less effort….

In CS4, animating in 3D has already been made possible… and if you’ve ever used a 3D software before (to animate) I bet you’d be familiar with IK handles, yep that’s right, inverse kinematics is now made available through flash animation…. as of now, just take my word for it or go through google looking for adobe flash previews for CS4 and you’ll see what I mean….. Anyway, the point here is that its good to see that we (designers) can now gain back the power that we used to have before the CS version of flash was set to stage, as easing, tweening and all the powerful stuff accessible to classes can now be simulated through design view in CS4… although it doesn’t mean that there are no limits to it, it’s just that the value of design and code has once again been balanced in this new and upcoming version….

Bottom-line is that I can’t wait to get my hands on testing this new version of flash…….. even just the trial version for starters…

Filed under: Personal, Work on October 12th, 2008