There's been a fair bit of publicity for this over the last week or two. I saw a quick bit about it on prime time TV a week or so back (on "the one show"), which showed some of the interactive stuff like the map. There's also a bit about it on the bbc news site today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7929653.stm Looks very cool, good work there Adrian :D Chris On 19/02/2009, Adrian Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2009, at 19:20, Bruno Emond <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Adrian, > > It does look extremely good! > > Thank you for sharing your success. > > > > I am just wondering what were your key arguments for QC against an Adobe > solution, beside the computing power of Mac Pros of course > > > > > > Having spent more than ten years professionally using products like > Director and Flash I think mostly I was glad to be free of the silly > quirkiness and performance issues associated with Lingo, ActionScript and > the general architectural nature of Adobe apps. We do still use these and > other dev environments but they're definately not our favourite! Why the > heck are moveclips so quriky? Adobe seriously doesn't seem to give a hoot > about developer intuition. Can anyone say "puppetsprite"? Yeugh. > > GPU acceleration is a factor but to be honest the fact that QC is easily > used by non-programmers is the biggest draw. We trained our junior designer > (a recent graduate) in QC very quickly and even the Photoshop monkeys know > how to update QTZ files without asking for help! Because of these, we > managed to present a near fully functional prototype at our creative pitch > and we knew the client couldn't refuse us. > > So I owe a lot of gratitude to pol, all the QC team at Apple, and everyone > on this list who has helped us over the past year. A big thank you! > > Best, > > > Ade. > > > > > > > > > > On 18-Feb-09, at 18:04 , Adrian Ward wrote: > > > > > > > I'm very excited because normally this is the sort of job that would > have been done using Director or Flash on Windows PCs, but for BME we > convinced the client to let us use Mac Pros, and now 18 months worth of work > is finally coming to close. Woohoo! It's so refreshing to see rack rooms > where Macs outnumber PCs. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list > ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/psonice%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
