Anyone with a mobile device will know that Flash animation--such a wonderful tool on the desktop--doesn't translate all that well to mobile devices. That very problem inspired Chris Brady to found his startup
Animated Media in late 2008. "He saw that Flash was a good tool to create content but not a good tool to run content on anything besides a desktop," says Lisa Brady, Director of Marketing (and, incidentally, Chris Brady's spouse).
Brady and his team developed a technology that allows Flash to run on a less than 1 gHz machine, and to run in native applications for mobile phones including the famously Flash-free iPhone. The recent rapid acceptance of the company's product in Europe and around the world recently drew notice from the provincial government, who labelled Animated media an "
Ontario Success Story."
The company has grown, Lisa Brady says, to six employees (they added one just this spring), and she says they're "always looking for other talent." She says that for now the company's focus is continuing to market the product and pick up more traction in an international ecoomic environment that has, over the past few years, seen R&D budgets shrink. "The prospects are really good, but the process takes time. We're just six people trying to get the message out there."
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Lisa Brady, Director of Marketing, Animated Media