About the Authors

Tom Green (author)

Tom Green is currently Professor of Interactive Media in the School of Media Studies at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto, Canada.  He has written eight previous books on Adobe technologies and many articles for numerous magazines and websites, including Layers magazine, Community MX, Digital Web Magazine, and Computer Arts.  He has spoken at more than 20 conferences internationally, including Adobe MAX, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), FITC, MX North, Digital Design World, TODCon, and SparkEurope. You can contact Tom at tom@tomontheweb.ca.

David Stiller (author)

David Stiller is an independent contractor whose portfolio includes multimedia programming and design for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US Department of Transportation (DOT), Nickelodeon, MTV, Wendy’s, Adobe, and dozens of clients across the United States and Canada.  David gets a kick out of sharing “aha!” moments with others through consultation and mentoring, as well as regular contributions to the Adobe Flash and ActionScript forums; his blog (http://quip.net/blog/); and articles for Community MX, Layers magazine, and other outlets. You can contact David using the form on his website (http://quip.net/contact.php).  In off hours, his interests include unicycling, anaglyph 3D photography, finely crafted wooden game boards, Library of Congress field recordings, and Turkish coffee.  David lives in Virginia with his amazing wife, Dawn, and his beguiling daughter, Meridian.

Tiago Dias (technical reviewer)

Tiago Dias started to get into Flash around the time of Flash 3, after seeing a Flash site for the first time.  He started off by doing freelance work on the side from his day job as a network/systems engineer.  On the motion graphics side of things, he got a lot of After Effects and Premiere experience at multimedia school in Zurich.  From those humble beginnings, he now works as a video producer and Flash developer at a corporate television and news production company based in London with subsidiaries around the world.  This is Tiago’s ideal job, as it combines two of his favorite technologies! In his free time, he writes tutorials on Flash and After Effects for various communities, tries to go snowboarding every time the sun is shining in the Swiss Alps, or hops on a plane to visit new countries. He currently lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.