It’s not new news, but it’s new for me. I just found a great set of stencils for creating mobile device wire frames using OmniGraffle. Download from BitTube’s blog.

Tags: Advergames, Mobile, mobile devices, Mobile Marketing, punchkick
Posted in Design, Flash Lite, Mobile, Mobile Marketing

Via Room 116 and Justin. That said, read Justin’s writeup. It’s really great.

This is the greatest online game I have every seen (and I’ve seen many). To be honest, it blows away some xbox 360 games. Created for the Got Milk campaign, Get The Glass is a 3d-modeled board game built using Flash Video. The site was created by North Kingdom (great job).

Learn more about Punchkick Interactive’s mobile advergame development capabilities.

Links
GetTheGlass.com
How it was made (HTML page)

More on how it was made
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/5vlHcuGZV-g" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ynGPD3dKnRQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ce10Z-ZuoE4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

Tags: Advergames, Flash, Games, ie, punchkick
Posted in Adobe, Design, Flash

GotoMobile did a great writeup about this. The video should explain everthing. Make sure your speakers are on.

Download link

Next Generation 2D Coding

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Advertising
Posted in Design, Flash Lite, MMS, Mobile, Mobile Video, Smartphone

First noted by Aniway:

Adobe released the mobile device profile update #5. Get it here. This update contains or makes changes to the following device profiles:

• Nokia 3250
• Nokia 5200
• Nokia 5300
• Nokia 5500
• Nokia 6085
• Nokia 6125
• Nokia 6131
• Nokia 6151
• Nokia 6300
• Nokia 7390
• Nokia 8800
• Nokia E50
• Nokia E60
• Nokia E61
• Nokia E62
• Nokia E70-1
• Nokia N70-1
• Nokia N71-1
• Nokia N73
• Nokia N75
• Nokia N80
• Nokia N91-1
• Nokia N92
• Nokia N93
• Nokia N93i
• Sony-Ericsson K600
• Sony-Ericsson K600c
• Sony-Ericsson K600i
• Sony-Ericsson K606c
• Sony-Ericsson K606i
• Sony-Ericsson K608c
• Sony-Ericsson K608i
• Sony-Ericsson K610iM
• Sony-Ericsson V600i
• Sony-Ericsson V800
• Sony-Ericsson W300i
• Sony-Ericsson W550c
• Sony-Ericsson W550i
• Sony-Ericsson W600c
• Sony-Ericsson W600i
• Sony-Ericsson W710i
• Sony-Ericsson W810i
• Sony-Ericsson W830a
• Sony-Ericsson W830c
• Sony-Ericsson W830i
• Sony-Ericsson W850i
• Sony-Ericsson Z712a
• Sony-Ericsson Z800i
• Verizon Motorola RAZR V3c
• Verizon Motorola RAZR V3m
• Verizon LG VX9800
• Verizon Samsung SCH-A950

Download here.

Tags: Adobe, Advergames, css, developer, device profile, Flash, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Screensavers, Nokia, PDA, PR, Samsung, Sony, update, Verizon
Posted in Adobe, BREW, Design, Flash, Flash Lite, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Video, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Smartphone, Symbian, Verizon Wireless, WAP

It’s very exciting that the (INTEL NATIVE!) CS3 has been released. This is meant to highlight the major new features. Mainly, integration, integration, integration. I will be updating this as the presentation from Adobe goes on.

Photoshop Extended

Flash Video integrated.

Import Video frames to layers.

Stack Mode blends changes in pixels between frames of video.

Color Widget built using Apollo.

Dreamweaver

GUI AJAX Integration. Dreamweaver CS3 has GUI widgets that you can drag and drop onto your Web design. XML controlled data.

Check browser compatibility tool shows coding problems before they start. Dreamweaver checks for problems with every major Web browser.

CSS Advisor is a new, community run Web site within Adobe.com.

Illustrator

Illustrator integrates seamlessly with Flash and now includes some of the Flash-style editing tools.

Live Color.

Flash

File::Import:: — Dialog Box looks to the layers of Photoshop and Illustrator files and automatically creates movie clips and dynamic text boxes based on the layers you choose. VERY EASY .ILL and .PSD integration.

You can now save “styles” for your animations. This allows you to copy motion tweens as Action Script 3.0. Then-you can paste the Action Script somewhere else and duplicate the animations.

Video Production

INTEL NATIVE!!!!!!!!!

Now you can import SWFs into After Effects CS3! The animation is retained! It’s about time.

AMG! Now you can import Photoshop’s vanishing points and animate a 3D model of a still image in After Effects CS3.

Puppet Tool: Lets you take a still image and it lets you create organic character animations. AMG! You must see the demo of this. It is amazing.

Dynamic Link Feature: On the Mac, bring After Effects CS3 compositions and dynamically link them into Premere Pro CS3. Then, edit the original file back in After Effects with no need to render.

Time Remapping is premere pro feature that lets you add variable speed time changes on video content. This means, you can go from normal speed, to slow-mo, to high speed, all within the Premere Pro CS timeline.

AMG! Amazing. Amazing. Visual editor within Adobe Soundbooth lets you delete background sound out of audio files with a marquee tool.

Adobe Encore is available on the Mac, finally.

Author once, then you can output three different files. Standard Deff, Blu-Ray Hi Deff, or Flash.

The Flash output from Encore brings in interactive features such as menu screens and subtitles.

Adobe Media Encoder lets you output directly to mobile devices.

Device Central

Integrated into nearly every component of the Creative Suite.

Several hundred devices.

Emulates processor performance of devices.

Preview video from Adobe Media Encoder.

NOW FOR THE PACKAGES:
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium
Design content for today — and tomorrow — with Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Design Premium software. Design Premium combines all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for creating engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Web Premium software offers a complete solution for creating interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, mobile device content, and other digital experiences. Get everything you need to prototype your project, design assets, build web experiences, and efficiently maintain and update content. Work on your choice of Mac or Windows®.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection
Express your ideas in print, on the web, in film and video, and on mobile devices with Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection software. Combines Adobe InDesign® CS3, Photoshop® CS3 Extended, Illustrator® CS3, Acrobat® 8 Professional, Flash® CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver® CS3, Fireworks® CS3, Contribute® CS3, After Effects® CS3 Professional, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3, Soundbooth™ CS3, and Encore® CS3, and also includes Adobe Bridge CS3, Version Cue® CS3, Device Central CS3, Dynamic Link, Adobe OnLocation™ CS3 (Windows® only), and Ultra® CS3 (Windows only).

Links
http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/launchevent/webcast/
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/web/
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/mastercollection/

Tags: Adobe, Advergames, CS3, css, Design, Flash, ie, Mobile, mobile devices, Mobile Marketing, PDA, PR, punchkick, update
Posted in Adobe, CS3, Design, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash Lite, Illustrator, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Video, Photoshop, Press Release, Punchkick Interactive

Since this will be the first official release since the merger of Adobe and Macromedia, a new version of Flash seems likely.

Via Adobe.com

An invitation from Adobe
A new era in creative expression is about to unfold, freeing us to color outside the lines, to think in multiple dimensions, to engage audiences like never before.

On March 27, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, Adobe Systems will host a webcast of the official launch of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, live from New York City. To participate, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/launchevent/ on March 27.

Tags: Adobe, CS3, Flash, ie, Mobile Marketing, PR
Posted in Adobe, Design, Flash, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Video

Via Alessandro:

Finally Flash Lite is listed in the technical specs of S60 and S40 mobile phones as feature in the Forum Nokia. It is also defined what type of implementation the specific phone includes. Some information are still not complete. Below are the different type of implementation of the Flash Lite player by the S60 and S40 Nokia phones.

S60 3rd Edition - Flash Lite 1.1 implementation

• Standalone
• WAP Browser

S60 3rd Edition FP1 – Flash Lite 2.0 implementation

• Standalone
• Wallpaper/Screensaver (still not confirmed, but I played with some phones at 3GSM which had this feature)
• S60 Browser

S60 3rd Edition FP2 – Flash Lite 2.1 implementation

• I am guessing all the above and would like to see animated ringtones!!

S40 3rd Edition FP1 - Flash Lite 1.1 implementation

• Wallpaper
• Screensaver
• Standalone
• WAP Browser

S40 3rd Edition FP2 - Flash Lite 2.0 implementation

• Wallpaper
• Screensaver
• Standalone
• WAP Browser

Read the full article
Biskero

Tags: Advergames, Flash, Flash Lite, ie, Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Screensavers, Nokia, s60, screensaver, wallpaper
Posted in Adobe, Flash Lite, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Nokia, Symbian