[Golist] Flashbelt

[Moses Gunesch]

Some exciting news:

I will be joined on stage at FlashBelt by Donovan Adams of Scifi.com  
and Jud Holliday of ZAAZ!

Donovan has been doing great work on HydroTween. It has a Tweener-like  
syntax plus sequencing, it's compact (one class) and does a load of  
fancy tricks including color, HSB, filters, 3D with automatic scene  
updating, start properties and more. HydroTween is already very  
flexible, you can tween groups and sequences as quick as you can say  
"Fuse." :-)

Judd and Graeme have been taking a nearly opposite approach at ZAAZ,  
with a fully OO strictly-typed tween library (and sequence  
extensions), but no syntax parsers so far. Graeme's also been working  
with John Grden on expanding his Go3D library. When this library lands  
it's gonna be with a thud, and my guess is that it will become another  
standard in the Go community.

Why I'm excited and honored to have these guys co-present with me is  
that their different approaches really illustrate the wide range of  
possibilities with Go. There is no wrong answer!

With 2 guests I'll be hard pressed to get a word in myself but, after  
introducing the whys and wherefores of Go I hope to get a chance to  
talk a bit more about its killer decoupled management architecture.  
This is really what make Go very unique and so sexily flexible. While  
other kits "bake in" management features and lock you to them, this is  
a way to be able to infinitely expand the automated side of your  
animation tools and never even lock the end-user into using it at all.  
Management sounds dry but in fact it's a richly creative opportunity:  
For example I made an AutoBlurrer manager that adds horizontal and  
vertical blur to any moving object based on its velocity!

The other point of excitement is just the killer lineup of speakers,  
one of the best I've seen at any conference.
http://www.flashbelt.com/

- m