Sham has worked on books in new media for 5 years, in which time he has authored and co-authored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award winning, and best selling titles like Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference. He has considerable working experience with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward, the biggest Macromedia Flash developer conference, Sham has also been a Beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products for a number of years.
I started my mind going early in life when I was about 4 years old. At that age, I began playing the piano, which was sitting unused in our house. I've been playing ever since then. Later, in 1997, I co-wrote a full-length musical called Chrystanthia. Somewhere along the way, I picked up game programming as a hobby, and eventually ended up making games professionally for home console systems. Then, in 1998, I discovered how I could take all my experiences and combine them when I discovered Flash. The rest is history. I share my ideas on my website, www.glenrhodes.com.
Kristian has worked with Multimedia for three years, but has been creative with computers for much longer. He currently develops Flash-based material within an educational environment. This material includes interactive presentations to illustrate how scientific things work, as well as GUIs/tools allowing web-based content creation with basic computer skills. He was a contributing author on the seminal Flash Math Creativity, and many other friends of ED books. In 2002, he launched the world's first bi-annual HTML markup-based TableArt competition. The competition was an unbelievable success.
Brian is more than simply a Flash artist. He is a technologist with a love for great design, motion graphics, and music. Currently, he is a Senior Interactive Designer at nFusion Group in Austin, Texas. His role with nFusion includes creating dynamic Flash demos, videos, and sound design.
His future plans include filmmaking. Becoming a filmmaker has been a lifelong passion for Brian, and until that day comes he'll continue to create unique multimedia. Visit his website: www.monnone.com.
'Who is this guy?' I hear you ask. Well, allow me to introduce myself. I'm a 28 year old designer and Flash developer living in the sunny town of Coatbridge, near Glasgow, Scotland. I originally started out as a Product Designer, having studied at Glasgow School of Art, but somehow found myself in the New Media industry, like most of my peers I just seem to have 'fallen into' New Media. Up until recently I've spent the last 2 years of my life working (if you can call it that) at Flammable Jam with Hoss Gifford and some of the other top designer/developers in Scotland. Check out my site at www.gimpster.net.
Keith lives in the vicinity of Boston, MA, in the USA with his wife Kazumi and their new daughter Kristine. He has been working with Flash since 1999, and has co-authored many books for friends of ED, including Flash MX Studio, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the ground-breaking Flash Math Creativity.
In 2001 he started the experimental Flash site, BIT-101 (www.bit-101.com), which strives for a new, cutting edge, open source experiment each day. The site recently won an award at the Flashforward 2003 Flash Film Festival in the Experimental category. In addition to the experiments on the site, there are several highly regarded Flash tutorials which have been translated into many languages and are now posted on web sites throughout the world. Keith is currently working full time doing freelance and contract Flash development and various writing projects.
From an early age, Anthony developed a love for interacting with mathematics and computational languages. Along the way, he gained an appreciation for any given natural environment and developed the ability to transform his environment into a digital construct. Inspiration for his latest project, www.arseiam.com (essentially an ActionScript anthology of his Flash work), is a testament to this philosophy. For Anthony, the last decade has included commercial roles with Microsoft, Disney, Toyota, and Adobe, opportunities that have provided him with a sound framework in which to explore and diversify his technical skills and style. Spare time? If he's not thinking about it, he's doing it!
After wanting to be an actor for many years I decided to take a more "realistic" career route when I was choosing which college to go to. I had always loved to draw so I decided to give animation a try. Since animating is acting with a pencil, I knew that I'd be happy - the best of both worlds. I am a graduate of Sheridan College's 3-year Classical Animation Program in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and right now I'm involved with freelance game development and Flash animation work. My website is www.canvasobrad.com/.
