A interesting first post to our newest blog category “Film Tech”. The GO Animation system has been released for public beta.

This set of code is written in Actionscript 3 and is the successor The Fuse Kit. Why is this Film Tech? Well let me explain.

Film is quickly moving to the we, at no slow pace have we seen a youtubian revolution with every social network and its brother picking up on the bandwagon. Flash is a key to all of this, and understanding how to do animation is flash has, usually, been a keyframing nightmare. In stepped the fuse kit, which changed code based motion tweening. Making everything much more logical and easier to manage, especially for someone that thinks in code. So when your making all those sites to house your films and showcase your work.. well this is a good place to start, if you can manage the coding curve. Not to say its difficult code, actually a lot of work has been done to make the GOASAP as easy as possible.

The real key here is starting to tap into flash as a motion graphics tool. With the new Virtual Machine in the Flash player 9 the flash world has seen a huge opening in possibilities. The world of film and graphics has yet to really realize the potential of flash as a tool in their workflow. Hopefully we can see a change in that as people begin to realize what flash can do. Code based art and modern motion graphics will come of age in the world of film soon enough. Check out this use of Processing to create an amazing Flocking Bird application for Fox Movies, links to the final render are on that page also.

Soon I will be doing some tutorials on merging Flash and After Effects together, as I feel there is going to be a huge trend in Code Art. Now with such a powerful animation system coming out in flash that has plans on supporting Physics and Particle Simulations, you better bet flash is going to be able to create some amazing motion that will finally push it away from the web, and onto the screen and your TV.

More to come, but for now. Check out some of the work going on in coding art, and if your in need of inspiration you can always head over to Complexification and see the Gallery of Computation. More on the GO aniamtion system at the GO Blog