Ok, last weeks mix was a great distraction, but my attention is now back on AS3 programming. In particular a very nifty feature of Flash, that is quite tricky to make work.
DisplayObject.scrollRect is a slippery eel of a construct. A scrollRect provides a great way to make sprites, movieclips and bitmaps scroll really efficiently [...] Read on »
So after ten years of building websites for others, I’ve finally got it together to build my own. To celebrate, here are some firecrackers.
I’ve been doing a lot of messing about with particle systems recently. This piece was the result of exploring chain reactions. It’s a bit rough around the edges but I quite like [...] Read on »
PaperVison3d product selector for the Sony Bravia Home Theater (BHT) Hub. The BHT Hub is part of a suite of marketing tools Sony provides for its regional offices, part of Sony’s Global CMS. The product selector is built in ActionScript 3 and completely data driven, configurable from XML files. Read on »
The Four Ridges campaign for Dairy Crest was spoofed on the b-movie “The Blob” in the most delicious way. There where two Flash microsites built for this campaign, using a hybrid of video, Flash and HTML. The teaser site was an interactive toy involving a very creepy young girl and a moth. The main site was an interactive b-movie featuring a cunningly produced video navigation. Read on »
At the time of launch, the Portégé was the world’s lightest fullsize laptop. The site features a 3d menu, built with PaperVision3D and explores a theme of weightlessness. The build was based on my localisation framework and the site was launched in 17 counrties, in 15 different languages.
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London is a big city and at any one time there’s a lot of transport going on. The AV installation for the London Transport Museum (run by Transport For London) is a massive display of geographical information: engineering works, canal renovations, train lines and bus routes. The display is controlled by two touch screen interfaces [...] Read on »
