Mini Ninjas Microsite
August 27th, 2009
Tags: Flash, html, JWPlayer, Microsite, photoshop
Another micro-site for the guys at SwapItShop. The assets provided for this microsite were the video, logo and the background image. The rest is Google Images reuse license stock photography messed around with until we get some prettier graphics. Note the cunning use of 24-bit PNGs to overlay the flash video.
0800 Reverse Microsite
August 12th, 2009
Tags: Freelance, html, Jquery
One of my first freelance gigs in London. Sorted out by the lovely Eleanor and working for the doughnut laden guys at Swapitshop. A days work battling against a horrid CMS. Yuk! Still, working around the problems in a unconventional but successful manner left happy customers all round! In fact, I’m back for more fights with the CMS next week. Bring it on!
Sky Banners
August 10th, 2009
Tags: action, AS2, Flash
Flash banners done in a hurry. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked with this old-school outfit. I think this version of Flash was pre Adobe. AS2 is a pain in the backside but for simple stuff like this still muddles along. As these banners animated via GreenSock’s TweenLite and positioned with code producing different sizes, updating copy and assets is a simple task for anyone with a text editor. The guys loved my approach as development and maintenance times are practically halved. None of this searching through a hundred badly organized tween and layers.
Too Many Particles
August 5th, 2009
Tags: actionscript, alchemy, away3d, Flash, pixelbender
I’m going crazy for dot’s these days. After the 3D Spectrum Analyzer I was frustrated with the low amounts of particles Away3D could render. I’m sure this part fault of my crappy programming but it seems flash is capable of much much more.
Using Adobe Alchemy and PixelBender’s C based power accessing a ByteArray created from a Collada XML file rendering a lot of particles is no problem for today’s machines.
The hard & impressive stuff goes to the smart guys at unitzeroone. I just bitchslapped Away3D’s DAE importer into a byte array.
Anyhow – View Particle Lightbulb here!
P.S It will melt your PC for a while and the FOV is a little messed up.
What now Ricky?
August 4th, 2009
Tags: html, mootools, vector
Quick viral site for Sky. Featuring Bobby Long’s fun artwork the team at Breakfast threw together a basic PHP/dHTML/Illustrator mashup together for the 3rd test. It’s cute and the HTML is worth viewing the source on. JS tody’s things up. Not magnificent but noteworthy.
Soundwave 3D
August 4th, 2009
Tags: actionscript, away3d
I was playing with Away3D again. This time we have a audio visual mix. A dot grid of simple sprites are given XYZ co-ords. X represents time, Z represents stereo and Y amplitude. Amplitude decays over time to zero.
The project uses Away3D’s billboard object in a mesh. The render can handle around 1000 points. Z sorting isn’t needed. I’m sure I could squeeze more speed from this.
The music is a free track from Freshbax, I hope it doesn’t offend your ears too much.
Possible extensions include splitting the grid into Low, mid and High freqs by color and as plugin for the JWPlayer.
visit the project here. use the WASD keys to move the camera.
Away3D x Invaders
June 1st, 2009
Tags: actionscript, away3d, Flash
A 3 by 5 random 2D array is mirrored to a five by five array which is then translated to 3D via Away3D. These objects are similar to the little fellas seen in the space invaders game of arcade lore. Easy to to do and a little bit of fun. I might well extend this little fella to a build your own version. I also need to turn on z-ordering as the poly count is quite so low. Expect some mroe 3D projects to be posted soon. It’s tough but fun.
iFlyer Banners
May 26th, 2009
Tags: content, photoshop
Fifteen online banners for iFlyer. Photograph was sourced from iflyers new party report system, a hip hop party at club Azure, Osaka. Text reads “Club Event Information”, “Artist / Report / Venue / Cell Phone”. Colors match those used on the iFlyer site. Smaller button banners are inspired by the iFlyer site background. iFlyer is going from strength to strength!
Away3D x Attractors x Flex
May 17th, 2009
Tags: actionscript, away3d, Flash, flex
Math can be beautiful. These chaotic strange attractors can produce some beautiful patterns. Done in Flex with Away3D and using three different attractors: Lorenz, Rossler and Duffing. The math is quite easy once you get your head round it. The wiki pages just make it look difficult. Use the mouse to view the attractor in 3D and mess about with the different variables at the side to create some of your own patterns.
Element : Earth
February 18th, 2009
Tags: illustrator, photoshop, Print Projects, vector
Hum, just messing around with this one. A photoshop comp at 300dpi. The Kanji looses all meaning when not with up against its counter parts so somewhat fail. Still the effect is very crisp and the grass texture was a good find. With lots of dodging and burning it came pretty well. I need to get a stock photography account so very badly. Producing comps like these are lots of fun but require good stock to shine.
