Just added – Gallery of banner templates

July 19, 2010

New version of Vectorian Giotto (v2.3) comes with exquisite selection of flash banner templates, but now you have a chance to preview it on our web site. Jump to our template gallery page, and look at these awesome banners that come bundled with the new Giotto.

Adobe Flash goes 3D!

July 9, 2010

Adobe Flash isn’t missing out all the fun with 3D, they revealed that it will include 3D graphic support in a future version of the browser plug-in. The move is an important advancement for Flash, a software foundation that eases programmers’ difficulties with incompatibilities among various operating systems and browsers. And it’ll come none too soon: Flash is under siege by a host of Web standards, and part of that work focuses on 3D Web graphics. Read more about it on cnet.

YouTube: Flash still ‘owns’ HTML5

June 30, 2010

Official Youtube API blog yesterday brought nice blog post, giving the reasons for not letting HTML5 replace Flash as the default video option for steaming. YouTube software engineer John Harding’s argument comes down to one simple statement: “We need to do more than just point the browser at a video file like the image tag does – there’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video.” He goes on to list several points where Flash still beats the up-and-coming HTML5 <video> tag.

One of the points is the need to standardize video format, and concerns about patents and licencing, which all speaks in the favour of Flash. There’s also the need for an effective and reliable means of delivering the video to the browser. Simply pointing the browser at a URL is not good enough, as that doesn’t allow users to easily get to the part of the video they want.

Harding also speaks about content protection, fullscreen option and Camera and Microphone access, which all set Flash as a primary option for Youtube. He encloses his statement with: “Today, Adobe Flash provides the best platform for YouTube’s video distribution requirements, which is why our primary video player is built with it.”

You can also read about this on ReadWriteWeb.

Giotto 2.3 hits the web with over 50 flash banner templates!

June 29, 2010

Vectorian Giotto just got updated to version 2.3. There’s bunch of small “under the hood” improvements, few bug are solved, but there’s one major thing for you! Giotto now comes bundled with over 50 flash banner templates. All previous licensed users are also able to upgrade their version of Giotto for free and enjoy brand new templates!

Flash banner templates

‘Subliminal’ Effects Of Banner Ads

E-Marketer Senior Analyst David Hallerman cites stats from a Microsoft Atlas study that suggest banners running across the tops of Web pages are still a great low cost solution for influencing purchase decisions. Hallerman, who has been researching a report about online brand marketing, calls banner ads “somewhat subliminal” because banner ads appear to affect consumers whether they realize it or not.

“The positive, yet not always easy-to-measure effects and the increasingly lower cost and availability of banners give campaigns a steady foundation,” says Hallerman. “Banners help to fill in the campaign.” Read more about this in MediaPost.

Adobe answers: The truth about Flash

May 15, 2010

Here’s what Adobe has to say to the Apple.

Multi-touch in Flash

May 3, 2010

Adobe is doing an awesome job with implementing multi-touch support in Flash. There’s a demo that showcases the new APIs that they have made available in Flash Player 10.1: PepsiCo Social Media Visualization from StruckAxiom on Vimeo.

Bullshit-free translation of Jobs’ flash thoughts

May 2, 2010

I’m sure you’re all aware of recent Apple’s anti-flash propaganda, crowned by Steve Jobs letter. Luckily, this letter quickly triggered lots of reactions from the oposing side, here’s the extract from one good post about it:

From Steve Jobs’ letter:

“Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free. There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world.”

The Bullshit Translator 2.0 ™ interpretation:

“So to reiterate: We don’t like Adobe because it’s closed, and we’re open. Apple devices can’t play any Flash-based games from the Web, because those are closed. But they can play any of the games in our highly policed App Store, for which we frequently deny applications that conflict with our business interests. Like I said, we’re open.

Don’t like it? Just try fucking with us. We’ll have the police raid your ass before you can get the words‘invalid warrant’ out of your proprietary mouth.”

Read the whole bullshit-free translation here.

New version of Vectorian Giotto!

April 30, 2010

Hey folks, Giotto keeps getting better. We just released new version (2.2), here’s what is improved:

  • Completely rewritten the export engine
  • Minor improvements:

- “set mask layer” now sets the next layer as masked

- minor bug fixes:

- copy&paste frames crash fixed

Introducing Vectorian Giotto

January 20, 2010

High-Quality, affordable flash authoring tool

Vectorian Giotto is a high-quality, affordable Flash authoring tool, that offers everything you need to create stunning Flash movies.

With easy-to-use interface, powerful drawing tools, sophisticated shape morphing, stunning built-in effects, sound and scripting support and more, an expert designer will do much more in less time, while the beginner will find it very easy to make incredible, professional-looking movies.

See the benefits of using Giotto and detailed features.

Easy-To-Use interface, designed for the first-time user

Vectorian Giotto has powerful yet very simple user interface. Even if you had no experience whatsoever with animation or graphics tools before, you can learn to use Vectorian Giotto effectively within 10 minutes.

Powerful Expert-Level drawing and animation tools

Vectorian Giotto has total of 15 vector drawing tools – selection, subselection, line, lasso, insert bitmap, text, oval, rectangle, pencil, brush, free transform, ink bottle, paint bucket, eyedropper and eraser – Features.

In addition, Vectorian Giotto it supports layers and gradient fills as well as intersection, union and difference operations on objects. Combine and manipulate text, images and shapes to create Flash movies.

You can set key animation parameters as dimensions, background color and frame rate. Animation is based on simple motion tween concept: set-up start and end look of objects and Giotto does the rest by itself. You can preview your animation inside Vectorian Giotto without launching a browser or external player.

Beginner-Friendly

Creating non-interactive animations with Vectorian Giotto requires absolutely no knowledge of programming or scripting. You can very easily add amazing effects to your animation objects can translate, rotate, change size, change color or gradient fill, stretch, skew or do at the same time any combination of those effects all with very minimal effort from user and using the same motion tween concept.

For more details, please take a look at our quick start guide and tutorials.

ActionScript support

However, if you need the added power and sophistication of creating interactive Flash animation using the power of ActionScript scripting language, Giotto enables you to add scripts to your animations, using internal and external compilers.