On January 29th I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to attend a full-day event focusing on the Adobe Flash Platform [Flash Camp Phoenix]. I was so excited to go to Flash Camp Phoenix to learn cool things about Adobe Flash and other design software.
My friend/coworker Scott and I carpooled over to Tempe early to make sure we had everything ready to go. Who knew if the traffic was going to be terrible or not!? We sure did luck out, we even had time to stop at McDonald's for some de-lish breakfast. What a great time! I was also ever so grateful to be a passenger instead of a driver on that packed freeway, thanks again Scott!
The event was hosted at a Design College [University of Advancing Technology] in Tempe, AZ. It was so fun going into a design college. It made me remember the good ol' days of working all day on artwork without a care in the world. Also, getting to use other design mediums like markers, paint, and clay. I suppose when we all get older we get busy in our daily lives and forget doing cool stuff like actual painting and drawing. I suppose when you sit at a desk all day photo-shopping away you forget about your beginnings. The artwork on display at this school was phenomenal! It looks like this school has a major focus on game design, something I'm not too familiar with but it sure looked cool. My hats off to them! I SHOULD have taken some photos with my phone of this adventure, I apologize.
I'm not going to lie, this event was a little hard core and was focused more for developers vs. designers. But I was able to follow along as good as I could, it was neat seeing another side of websites and programs. I like learning new things and I really think the speakers did a great job of being descriptive enough for me to catch on. The amount of people to network there was overwhelming... There were people there from Adobe [Who gave away 2 copies of the CS4 Suite - druel] and a lot of other great people too.
On a side-note: They didn't really talk about Adobe Flash at all, it was all about Flex and air... They should have called it Flex and Air Camp Phoenix. Haha.
There were a lot of developers there who had personal websites they invented that are doing great. The guy who invented www.runpee.com was there and he was kind enough to offer to his fellow designers/developers if we had an idea he would put it on his homepage to help. I thought that was about the nicest thing I had heard in a while. I'm so used to everyone being so cut-throat. I'm not sure I will ever need to use his website, but I will sure let people know how nice he was to all of us. If I ever make it big, I will do what I can to publish him on my homepage as well.
All in all I really enjoyed my day at Flash Camp Phoenix. Yeah, I wish there could have been more design professionals giving cool presentations on photoshop or illustrator tricks... But it was still really fun and eye opening. Very Refreshing!
NOTE: In-case you didn't know. Designers are the folks who make the graphics, designs, and layouts of websites/programs. Developers are the folks who take those designs and make them a real working website/program.
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