Away3D and the Future of 3D in Flash (19:00 – 20:00) – Rob Bateman
Hear about the latest developments in Away3D from the lead developer and co-founder, including the most recent Flash 10 optimisations that take full advantage of the new features in the player. Rob showcases some of the interesting collaborations happening within the 3D Flash community, as well as some examples of practical use of Away3D in the wild. As a finale, there will be some sneaks of work in progress from inside the Away3D production team archives.

Constructive content in Away3D (20:15 – 21:15) – Jens C. Brynildsen
3D on the web is often just eye candy or fancy navigation. Powerful APIs like Away3D now allow you to create solid applications that really use that third dimension for something useful. Jens will show and deconstruct his pet project – a Skate Ramp Generator and maybe some more apps if time allows. Having spent a lot of his commercial and spare time on building Away3D applications and writing about it (http://www.flashmagazine.com/Tutorials/category/away3d/), this session is a good opportunity to ask those “how-to” and “can-it-be-done” questions about 3D in Flash.

Prizes for the free raffle
1 copy of Beginning iPhone Development donated by Apress.
1 copy of Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex donated by friends of ED.
2 current issues (printed) of the bimonthly Flash & Flex Developers Magazine donated by ffdmag.com

Sponsored by friends of ED

When/Where
Date: 25th June 2009 (25/06/2009)
Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

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The Budding Alchemist (19:00 – 20:00) – Thomas Vian
Still in it’s early stages, Alchemy is the strangest and yet perhaps most exciting project to come from the Adobe labs in some time. In performing it’s magic, thousands of libraries of code have overnight become available to Flash developers.

This session gives an introduction to the world of Alchemy, how it works, how to set it up, and how to use it in your own projects

Hands-On with the Pixel Bender (20:15 – 21:15) – Michael Chase
This session will review how to create Pixel Bender effects using the Adobe’s PB toolkit and Lacquer’s visual effect editor Conduit. The focus being on importing and embedding these filters into Flex/AS3 projects using Flex Builder as well as exploring future applications of Pixel Bender technology.

You need to register and sign-up if you wish to attend and be entered into the raffle. You can sign-up in the sidebar on the right of the front page or at the bottom of the post here. Please do not sign-up if you don’t plan to attend. You cannot win unless you attend the event.