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I just delivered yet another Away3D project for a longtime client of mine - dna shoes. It's a nice competition for Converse shoes that use MMS and email to build a nice 3D gallery (based on one of my workshop files). I've done lot's of Flash 3D this year and it's actually become my main income the last 12 months.

For many years, I've used Blinksale for my billing purposes. It's a very basic service, but it does have one neat feature and that's tagging. By selecting invoices by tags, I can easily see what I spent my time on and Flash 3D is a BIG part of it. This chart shows what kind of projects I've billed the last 12 months:

This is just my commercial work and in addition I've also done many personal projects. Most of these include Away3D in some way so if anyone ever wondered if it's possible to make money from Open Source Flash - here's another little bit of proof. Thanks to the entire Away3D team for filling my days (and nights) with fun!

PS: The 6% training is also Away3D! :-D

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Blogger: Jens Christian Brynildsen
Profession: Flash Platform Consultant
Location: Oslo, Norway
Email: "jensa" at this domain
Twitter: @jenschr

About this site

Flashgamer.com is my private site and it's about the things I like and play with at the moment. This means a lot of Flash and Flex stuff, but occasionally about other tech I like and use such as the ExpressionEngine CMS, iPhone/Mac and more.

About Jens Christian (aka Jensa)

Jens has been working with Flash since version 3 came out. Since then, he's been an active member of the Flash community. He's created more than a hundred Flash games (thus the name of this blog) but he also makes web/standalone applications, does workshops and other consulting.

In 1994, Jens co-founded Netron. Initially Netron only did presentations using Asymetrix Toolbook and later Macromedia Director. In 1999, Netron became the first Norwegian Flash consultancy, doing exclusively Flash related work. In May 2006 he left the company to go freelance, but Jens still enjoys working with Netron from time to time.

With the help of some good friends in the community, he maintains the site Flashmagazine.com. Since it's start back in March 2000, it's become a popular site with Flash Designers and Developers. Flashmagazine now features more than 1400 articles about the Flash Platform and the community around it. It's still just a hobby though.

Jens also co-founded Flash User Group Norway (FUGN) with buddies Paulo Fierro and Øystein Wika. The User Group has regular meetings the first Monday every month.

Some random facts about me:

• I've been playing with computers since I was 11 when my father bought a Sinclair ZX81. I got a C64 after that.


• I'm not a computer professional in terms of education, but I can brag about being a Certified Sound Engineer. I worked as an engineer/dj in commercial radio for a couple years, but I've barely used the audio part of my education since then.


• I've published two books about Flash (in Norwegian), but I don't think I'll ever write a book again. These days I prefer to spend my time on Flashmagazine and Open Source projects instead.


• I'm a family man. I've got two kids and a lovely wife and we live on the outskirts of Norway's capitol Oslo


• I love skateboarding, but I suck at it. My current goal is to ollie...

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