New position at Adobe [ by Thibault Imbert ]

Flash Bag!I am very happy to announce that I will be joining the Flash Player team as a product manager in the following months. I will be joining an exciting team in San Francisco and I will be reporting to Emmy Huang that you guys may know. Working in the Flash Player team has always been like a dream for me, I feel like crazy right now ready to work hard on the future of the Flash Player. I got everything ready, my pens, rubber and ruler and a lot of ideas, from a language perspective but also in terms of Flash Player APIs.

As I was saying during my interviews, Flash Player is a lot more than a simple video player, you can have 4 people using the Flash Player differently, from cartoons, to games, to websites (with video streaming) with ActionScript on top of it to make all that interactive to pure ActionScript projects without any external asset. This is what we saw again at the FITC this week in Amsterdam. So many people, using the same technology but differently. Erik Natzke will create amazing interactive design experiences and paintings, Chris Georgenes will animate a cute little monster in a cartoon, and advanced ActionScript coders will do crazy frameworks, work on CPU emulation or runtime audio tools or even complex data vizualisation applications for bank companies. To me, this is the power of the Flash technology, it talks to anyone, from design to code. I even met a team this year using Flash Professionnal, who did not even know what was a SWF, they were using the tool to animate and then export high definition PNG's to target HD TV's for broadcasting. The day after, I could meet a team who did not even know what was Flash Professional, and thought that Flash was just the Flash Player.

Oh there is a tool called Flash Pro ? Wow, did not know that :)

More generally, I also want the Flash Player to perform beautifully everywhere, and we are already stepping into this (See Tinic's post related to CoreAnimation). So many things come into my mind when I think about new stuff or improvements for an animator, an interactive designer or an ActionScript developer. I look forward to work with this incredible team and help driving the future of the Flash Player. Damn, I am excited! :)

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Comments (90)

  1. Saeed ashour wrote::

    Congrats THIBAULT

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:11 pm #
  2. Thomas Tourlourat wrote::

    Congratulation !

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:20 pm #
  3. katopz wrote::

    well, i did quick search for “3d” in this page got “0 result” total… ;p

    congrats anyway ;)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm #
  4. fabien wrote::

    CONGRATS !!
    it throws some tartine de bécasse !

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm #
  5. Ian Thomas wrote::

    Congratulations Thibault! After some of the crazy stuff you showed us last Sunday I’m not surprised that they have got you on their team.

    I never got to the fries place though, maybe next year!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:23 pm #
  6. Melvyn wrote::

    Congratulations Thibault!
    I’m sure the Flash community will benefit from your new position.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:28 pm #
  7. Isaac wrote::

    Congrats THIBAULT, am really impressed.

    Go do it man!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:35 pm #
  8. LAlex wrote::

    WOW! I can’t believe what I’m reading, this is so great for you!

    You deserve so much to be part of this team! For a coder like me, it’s really a chance to know that someone like you, coming from the Flash community, has such a place in the SF Flash Player team…

    I just hope that we’ll have a chance to drink a beer before you leave France… ;oP

    BIG CONGRATS AGAIN!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:45 pm #
  9. eyeclipse wrote::

    Congrats man!
    A huge vision joins a huge platform, it sounds interesting ;)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:45 pm #
  10. Pierluigi Pesenti wrote::

    Congratulations.

    You surely deserve this :)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:45 pm #
  11. Zack Brown wrote::

    Optimization here we come!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:48 pm #
  12. Leandro Zanol wrote::

    Congratulations guy! I have a expectative of great results from your new job!
    Success!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:57 pm #
  13. randygland wrote::

    what’s teh pay like? :P

    grats!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:59 pm #
  14. fr wrote::

    Bravo mec !

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:03 pm #
  15. Maxime Cousinou wrote::

    Congratulations !
    Nice move !

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:04 pm #
  16. Michiel van der Ros wrote::

    Great to hear that! I’ve always been impressed by your projects at ByteArray.org, so looking forward to seeing what you will with the Flash Player.

    P.S: Please don’t forget the compiler!!!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:05 pm #
  17. Joan Llenas wrote::

    Wow… congratulations to you!!! and congratulations to us!! ;)

    Joan

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:09 pm #
  18. Iain wrote::

    Congratulations, well deserved! I think you are now the person who has a shot at bringing joystick/gamepad support to Flash Player?

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:13 pm #
  19. Emmanuel Ulloa wrote::

    Congrats! hit Flash Player in the head (Zidanne style)… hehehe.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:17 pm #
  20. Dimitri Kara wrote::

    Félicitations!
    En fait, ça fait plaisir de voir que le karma récompense parfois ceux qui le méritent. Et sur ce que je connais de toi (rédaction et diffusion gratuite d’une des bibles sur l’AS3, un blog avec des articles vraiment uniques, et, surtout, une disponibilité et une gentillesse qui m’ont impressionné lors de Back from Max 09 – nd:j’étais celui “obsédé” par le Slider Framework), peu de personnes dans la communauté Flash méritaient autant que toi d’intégrer le Saint-Graal.

    Bon, un seul regret: est-ce la fin du fameux nouveau duo d’acteurs français que tu venais de former avec Michael?
    Parce que pour le coup, c’était même plus SF qui vous attendait, c’était Hollywood ;)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:18 pm #
  21. Jeanfrancoisperrault wrote::

    Félicitations Thibault ! on compte tous sur toi :) !

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:37 pm #
  22. Tek wrote::

    Congrats Thibault! Adobe made the right choice to hire you. I hope that you will be the one chosen to make conferences in France in the future.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:44 pm #
  23. Damien wrote::

    Si ça c’est pas du rock ‘n’ roll, je ne sais pas ce que c’est!
    Félicitations!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:56 pm #
  24. llops wrote::

    Wooow, really great news! Congrats Thibault :)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:11 pm #
  25. Axelle wrote::

    Congratulations. And what katopz said : 3D ! :)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:12 pm #
  26. Almog Koren wrote::

    Congrats Thibault!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:38 pm #
  27. maddec wrote::

    Congratulations Thibault!
    I’m convinced that you are going to be a valuable input to the core Flash Player team! And thank you for all the work done these past years for the Flash community! AlivePdf is amazing!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:46 pm #
  28. Paul Gregoire wrote::

    Glad to see someone with such obvious talent, join that team! I do assume your postings will suffer though because you will have to follow Adobe’s blog rules.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:55 pm #
  29. Goach wrote::

    Felicitation mec !
    Si Didier Drogba… non j’en reste la tu me comprends… :)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:57 pm #
  30. Benjamin wrote::

    Wooooohooooo tant d’étapes franchies depuis nos débuts! Attention je vais surveiller les new features et si ca pue je publie ton jeu de voiture boite à savons compatible flash player 5 au moins!

    Good luck et encore bravo mon héros :)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:04 pm #
  31. Vipin wrote::

    Congrats….I am sure you can make a difference…

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:22 pm #
  32. gludion wrote::

    Yessss man! But don’t forget the Gaule and its irreductible Gaulois.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:33 pm #
  33. mike wrote::

    Bravo & long life to flash

    ;)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:38 pm #
  34. Kevin Goldsmith wrote::

    Congratulations! Looking forward to working with you!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:41 pm #
  35. browny wrote::

    Congrats,

    There are so many game devs waiting for gamepad joystick support! I hope you can help making it happen.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:57 pm #
  36. Lee Brimelow wrote::

    Congratulations you French bastard! For those who don’t know, Thibault was already working for Adobe in France. But now his expertise will be put to full use on the Flash Player team in San Francisco.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:24 pm #
  37. keith wrote::

    Congratulations.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:25 pm #
  38. toojee wrote::

    Bravo! Tu va pouvoir faire avancer les choses sur flash, c’est cool!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:28 pm #
  39. Peter wrote::

    Congrats Thibault, I couldn’t think of a better person for the job!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:31 pm #
  40. Thibault Imbert wrote::

    Thank you all for the kind words ! :)

    It is very nice from you.

    Thibault

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:31 pm #
  41. Maxim Gladines wrote::

    Mes félicitations Thibault !

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:32 pm #
  42. Erik Natzke wrote::

    Congrats my friend! Adobe is lucky to have you already.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:40 pm #
  43. Hicham wrote::

    Awesome news for the future of Flash.
    Congratulations.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:35 pm #
  44. Hicham wrote::

    awesome news for the future of flash!
    Congratulations.

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:37 pm #
  45. bartekd wrote::

    Congrats! This is exciting news! Does this mean you are moving to San Francisco? You’ll love the place!

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:46 pm #
  46. Ben Garney wrote::

    Way to go, Thibault! I’m looking forward to where you help take FP! :)

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:58 pm #
  47. Fernando França wrote::

    Great to hear that Thibault,

    I have been a reader here for a long time and I am sure you will bring a lot of innovation to Flash Player!

    Best wishes

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 11:07 pm #
  48. borisforconi wrote::

    On est bien contents pour toi, nous.

    May the funk be with you.

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 1:21 am #
  49. thienhaflash wrote::

    Great news… congratz

    I personally hope the flash player performance will be better and better…

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 3:49 am #
  50. achraf wrote::

    Félicitation, j’ai toujours suivi vos travaux et vous méritez, encore félicitation.

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 4:53 am #
  51. Chris Georgenes wrote::

    Wow! Congrats! That’s incredible news and Adobe is lucky to have you!!!

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 7:42 am #
  52. Anton Volkov wrote::

    Hurray! :)

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 8:53 am #
  53. Gilles Guillemin wrote::

    Cool ! Bravo !

    Moi je dis, il a quand meme bien grandit le petit Dick Rivers ;)

    BigVirgil

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 9:07 am #
  54. Tommy Kjær Andersen wrote::

    Congratulations, sounds awesome.
    Maybe you have a better chance to get your wishes from your wishlist in to the flash player. :D

    good luck!

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 9:21 am #
  55. guillaume wrote::

    Voilà une nouvelle qu’elle est bonne. :D

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 10:57 am #
  56. alftuga wrote::

    Bravo! ça fait plaisir de te voir récompenser!

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 12:32 pm #
  57. Jensa wrote::

    Very cool! Congrats Thibault!

    J

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 12:59 pm #
  58. jloa wrote::

    “Wow, congrats!” blah-blah-blah etc… Yeah, right.
    Well, i guess i’ll be unique to let these guys congrat u http://z0r.de/1629

    ps: congrats ^_^

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 2:00 pm #
  59. Romain wrote::

    Excellent Thibault ! super nouvelle pour toi !
    J’espère que cette nouvelle aventure t’apportera tout plein de bonnes choses.
    Bonne chance à toi; je pense qu’il y a moyen de bien “s’amuser” la bas ;)

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 3:06 pm #
  60. Tim K wrote::

    Make us proud!!!!

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 3:54 pm #
  61. Woader wrote::

    Yeess ! Si ça c’est pas une grosse quenelle, je vois pas ce que c’est !!

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 5:50 pm #
  62. John Nack wrote::

    Congrats, Thibault! It’ll be great to have you helping to fight the good fight. –J.

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 8:16 pm #
  63. danigas wrote::

    Congrats et Félicitation,

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 10:10 pm #
  64. morphy wrote::

    Grande nouvelle ! Bravo !
    Mais n’oublie pas, if you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair !

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 11:29 pm #
  65. Héctor wrote::

    Just read this.

    My most sincere congratulations Thibault, I’m sure you’ll do all your best so FP is getting better and better, ang get all those long-awaited features… better native caching support, multi-threading, generics, method overloading, etc.

    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 11:53 pm #
  66. Alessandro Crugnola wrote::

    Wow, what a great news for you.
    Congratulations!

    Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 4:33 pm #
  67. baptiste wrote::

    très sincere felicitation thibault, tu auras effectivement parcouru du terrain depuis maintenant 4 ans ou tu étais mon formateur chez regart,
    bonne continuation et je continue à te suivre (merci twitter ! )

    Monday, March 1, 2010 at 11:49 am #
  68. P48l0 wrote::

    Cool dude, Congratulations!

    Monday, March 1, 2010 at 2:10 pm #
  69. djandrew wrote::

    Woohoo! Adobe couldn’t have picked a better person for the task! Congrats man!

    Monday, March 1, 2010 at 6:44 pm #
  70. jeanphilippe wrote::

    félicitations !! !

    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 8:25 am #
  71. baptiste wrote::

    Auras-tu le puvoir de faire taire ou corriger si avéré les infos sur flash player du genre : http://bit.ly/91siJu ? bon courage et encore felicitation

    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 1:21 pm #
  72. Ronaldo wrote::

    Congrats from brazil!

    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 6:13 pm #
  73. Adrian Parr wrote::

    That’s fantastic news Thibault, for both yourself, Adobe and the Flash community. I always knew they should hire you! ;-)

    Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 9:47 pm #
  74. Antonin wrote::

    Félicitations Thibault !
    On comptes sur toi pour parler aux noms de tous les flasheurs Français ^^

    You deserve it !

    Friday, March 5, 2010 at 10:07 am #
  75. Alrick wrote::

    YESSSSSSSSS!!!! CONGRATS MAN!!! WOOT, WOOT!

    I’m really happy for you man :)
    Keep up the good work!

    Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 7:19 pm #
  76. Nuno Ribeiro wrote::

    Congrats.
    It’s more than deserved.
    You f*** rock. Your projects and ideas are always an inspiration to me.

    Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 10:04 pm #
  77. Steeve wrote::

    Et le prince de l’optimisation rejoint la cour d’Adobe.

    Je compte sur toi pour montrer à Apple que le plugin Flash à bien évolué depuis la v6… :)

    Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:18 pm #
  78. Wayne @ crede wrote::

    Kudos to you sir!

    I’ve regrettably not kept up with bytearray.org for a while but having just seen your latest post – huge congratulations – you dont let any of your excitement away with your move to SF!

    Wayne

    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:36 pm #
  79. danny wrote::

    Well done buddy and thanks for scalebitmap.

    Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 4:43 pm #
  80. morphy wrote::

    @danny : actually ScaleBitmap is not from Thibault but from Didier Brun :)

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 11:41 am #
  81. Thibault Imbert wrote::

    Thanks for the correction morphy ! :)

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 12:44 pm #
  82. Campbell wrote::

    Awesome news mate. Congrats!
    All we need now is Joa on with you and my flash player dream team is complete!

    Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 12:42 am #
  83. Ashish wrote::

    It very very great achievement. Congrats to you from my heart.. :)

    Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 6:52 am #
  84. patrick.hohn@free.fr wrote::

    J’ai acquis votre ouvrage Pratique d’ActionScript3 aux Editions Pearson. J’ai téléchargé les fichiers d’exemples mentionnés dans votre livre sur le site de l’Editeur. Le dernier fichier d’exemples (Parties IV et V) – CS4 est corrompu. Voulez-vous avoir la gentillesse de m’adresser, par email, la partie endommagée ?
    Je vous remercie par avance et vous félicite pour votre ouvrage qui m’apporte une aide salutaire dans la compréhension et l’application d’ActionScript.

    Patrick

    Friday, March 26, 2010 at 5:54 pm #
  85. dominique wrote::

    Bravo ! Congratulations !
    I am so please for you.

    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 6:29 pm #
  86. Alvaro Braga wrote::

    Ok, so let’s start working:
    1st and Lst, When the heck will Adobe build a Flash Player version to run into the iDevices?
    I love Flash, but I love Apple also, we all know the Flash should crash Apple commercial plans, selling every kind of DRM content inside websites.
    So as an Adobe man you should say: ‘CS5 will already include an iPhone support for exporting AS3 projects to run as iPhone Apps’… Ok! This will happen cuz apps are controlled by AppStore Dev Policy.
    But, since Apple won’t open to a free-Flash-world, when Adobe will work around it?

    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 10:09 pm #
  87. Mateoone wrote::

    Well done…
    Du courage et de la perseverance pour que flash tourne sur tout les iBidules, qu’il déboite tout sur win comme sur mac, et nous permette de créer des expériences riche sur toutes les devices.

    Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 11:39 pm #
  88. jloa wrote::

    Haven’t heard a word for you for a while. Lots of stuff to do?

    Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm #
  89. Santosh wrote::

    Congratulation Thibault,
    You deserve it.And now since you are on flash team,I believe that flash player will rock more and will amaze its audience more and make us developers to create more.

    Monday, April 19, 2010 at 11:28 am #
  90. quy.tran wrote::

    Congratulation!
    I love the way you reveal your secret.

    Monday, May 17, 2010 at 5:16 am #

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