Illustrator | Design for Immersive Technologies

Illustrating In Illustrator 101 part 4 of 5

taterboy
| Jul 25, 2011

LoaderCollection: Loading multiple files with a single progress loader that displays the total loading percentage of all items being loaded. [kml_flashembed fversion=”10.0.0″ movie=”http://www.taterboy.com/blog/flash/MultiLoaderDemo.swf” targetclass=”flashmovie” useexpressinstall=”true” publishmethod=”static” width=”500″ height=”200″] [/kml_flashembed] Demo Version, ask rx not actual component Before we get into the LoaderCollection, health visit let’s discuss how you load single external files. The LoaderCollection recognizes… Read the full article…
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Building Tiled Backgrounds Using Photoshop and Illustrator

taterboy
| Nov 3, 2009

I can’t wait to get back to publishing Flash tips and code, buy information pills healing but we’ve been so wrapped up in ChessJam lately leaving so little time to clean up code and make things more component-ized. I am enjoying the break from programming though, drugs doing illustration again has been very rewarding. Fixing… Read the full article…
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Illustrating in Illustrator Better Faster, The Happy Frog

taterboy
| Jul 27, 2009

What happened to _global, cost physician _root, _level? I rarely used _root or _level just because some projects would end up getting loaded into other swfs. Sometimes I didn’t know this until halfway through or in the end. So I started using global instead. That way I could still target the main timeline, which is… Read the full article…
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Some Sketches and Illustrations Summer 2009

taterboy
| Jun 1, 2009

Adobe MAX 2008 kicks off with Shantanu Narayen, troche Adobe CEO. I will do some live blogging from MAX. All post are being typed on my iPhone, due to my broken laptop, so do not expect a lot of details. Over 5000 in attendence. Followed by 2 more MAX conferences in europe and Asia. Flash… Read the full article…
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Illustrating In Illustrator 101 Part 2 of 5

taterboy
| Jan 5, 2009

Adobe MAX 2008 kicks off with Shantanu Narayen, troche Adobe CEO. I will do some live blogging from MAX. All post are being typed on my iPhone, due to my broken laptop, so do not expect a lot of details. Over 5000 in attendence. Followed by 2 more MAX conferences in europe and Asia. Flash… Read the full article…
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Illustrating In Illustrator 101 part 1 of 5

taterboy
| Oct 13, 2008

Flex.org already has tons of tutorials and looks like a great resource for Flex development and the Flex community. flex.org I was first introduced to the ColorTransform class while reading the AS2 to AS3 migration documentation about setRGB(). I was immediately impressed with the features, stomach web but intimidated when I saw the constructor and… Read the full article…
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iPhone Interface Artwork (Vector)

taterboy
| Jun 20, 2008

I have never liked the stuff in the green and white bottles labeled as Ranch Dressing. You have to question a substance that does not rinse off the plate easily. If it has to be scrubbed off a surface I can’t imagine what it is doing to the inside the body. We switched to an… Read the full article…
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Illustrator Tip #11…

taterboy
| Jun 18, 2008

I have never liked the stuff in the green and white bottles labeled as Ranch Dressing. You have to question a substance that does not rinse off the plate easily. If it has to be scrubbed off a surface I can’t imagine what it is doing to the inside the body. We switched to an… Read the full article…
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10 Adobe Illustrator Tips

taterboy
| Jun 16, 2008

I have never liked the stuff in the green and white bottles labeled as Ranch Dressing. You have to question a substance that does not rinse off the plate easily. If it has to be scrubbed off a surface I can’t imagine what it is doing to the inside the body. We switched to an… Read the full article…
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