{"id":16201,"date":"2010-01-24T13:39:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/01\/the-creators-of-photoshop-after-effects-and-flash-speak.html"},"modified":"2010-01-24T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:39:57","slug":"the_creators_of_photoshop_after_effects_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/the_creators_of_photoshop_after_effects_an\/","title":{"rendered":"The creators of Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Photoshop might have been marketed as a file-format conversion utility, or that Flash started life as a drawing tool for tablet computers of the early 90&#8217;s?<br \/>\nBy coincidence, the following interviews with the creators of Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash have popped up in the last week:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First, Robert Scoble traveled to Industrial Light and Magic to chat with visual effects supervisor John Knoll&#8211;who, with his brother Thomas, created Photoshop:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iItTsYmy8lQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottkelby.com\/blog\/2010\/archives\/8107\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>At a meeting of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmograph.org\/SFMOGRAPH\/SFMOGRAPH_HOME.html\">SFMOGRAPH<\/a>, two of the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosa.com\/after_fx\/\">CoSA<\/a> After Effects team members, David Simons and Dan Wilk, sat down with current AE engineering manager Chris Prosser to chat about the past, present, and future:<br \/>\n<object width=\"426\" height=\"240\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8803073&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"426\" height=\"240\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=122921703\">How Flash Brought The Internet To Life<\/a>, NPR interviewed Flash creator Jonathan Gay about that technology&#8217;s incredible metamorphoses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Photoshop might have been marketed as a file-format conversion utility, or that Flash started life as a drawing tool for tablet computers of the early 90&#8217;s? By coincidence, the following interviews with the creators of Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash have popped up in the last week: First, Robert Scoble traveled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}