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2Advanced was a website I followed back in the late 90 well lets just say 99′ thru current era but it seems they have slowed in their output to the public or so it seems. The site featured some of the best digital media on the web. This was during the infancy of flash and what it was truly capable of doing now today flash(shockwave player) is a thing of the norm much in the same vein as html5 and all the higher end backend and front end tech that drives websites. It is actually amazing which these tools grow o what they are today. In the world of animation which is my largest strength with programmer as my second tier strength I have the best of both world able to thread the needle between the best of both worlds. Going back to 2advanced as I seem to drift away from my subject matter at times they were one of the best, note there were many talented smaller creators and adopters but 2advanced which was once headed by Eric Jordan branched into something larger and more ambitious in it’s desire and goals. Working for a company like that was my goal at one point but I soon learned I wanted more than that as the world was constantly reshaping and certain things you desire as a youth soon seem meaningless. Yet again I drift but what 2advanced brought was a non-linear approach to digital media which flash allowed if you were knowledgeable in the craft of programming. 2advanced had some of the best programming genius that created some of the most radical websites and again I state there were other greats out there that did some warlock level websites but in terms of sheer consistency 2advanced was a rockstar. Maybe I am being bias but they were one of the best. My earlier websites took ques from their design sense and innovations.
Now that we have entered or have been existing in the age of the mobile application or simply for short the app world, I would love to see what apps they have been developing for the public consumption, considering that flash may be crippled as an android or apple app for mobile platform but it is still used as a tool to create content for these said devices. What made flash amazing was the fact that it was a tool and platform to do Digital media creation in one package. It was lighter weight After-Effects and premiere all rolled into one. It was a editing tool with non-linear capabilities, in that it could deploy a media which was interactive, to the level of allowing the user to control the media if the sources or output files were tagged and programmed and coupled in a way to allow for customization or in other words interactivity. I truly hope I did not go over anyone head in my laymans description as I am truly not good at breaking down the logic of complex matters. Either way flash and such tools are simply amazing. For more on 2advanced and what they are upto check out their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/2AdvancedStudios

While on their page I noticed this project which brought a smile to my face http://dajam.2advanced.com/

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Name: Lisette Titre-Montgomery
Vocation: Art Lead
Number of years’ experience: 13.5 years
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Twitter: @zette16

Several moons ago I was able to meet Lisette Titre-Montgomery who has worked in an industry which was parallel to the industry I started my career. This event or choice meeting was at GDC(IGDF) Blacks In Gaming event. At the time I never really considered the magnitude that this meeting held, as the idea of being a black person in the gaming arena and creating a game was lost on me even though I had recently created a game which is a tale for another day. Regardless of the fact being black is one thing but being a woman is another and I believe she had her hurdles to cross as those are hurdles regardless of the skills you have. Those are apparent things that many think are not there but sometimes you have to push past that and endure and make it to the end of the road. It’s a stigma that blacks are not capable of certain levels due to the negative cogitation brought about by the media and our fellow man or woman.

Take from the web-article –Lucky and Blessed

Lisette Titre-Montgomery has contributed to some of the industry’s highest profile games, including Tiger Woods Golf, Dance Central 3, and her most recent project: The Sims 4, set to be released in Fall of 2014. Ms. Titre’s passion is publicly advocating for game-based educational curriculum designed to expose under-served youth to careers in technology. Lisette has been a keynote speaker at N.A.S.A., Intel, and the San Francisco Environmental Protection Agency. She has also been featured on NPR and in the New York Times.

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Take from the web-article –Lucky and Blessed

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