MeloManics Minigame

The MeloManics are about to release a remixed version of their debut album TheGreyLight. To announce and promote the Remix Album, we made a little Flash slide puzzle. The release of the album is also going to be accompanied by a limited number of actual physical slide puzzles, which I think is a really nice promotional stunt for a remix album. The scripting of the puzzle itself was about an hour and a half work. Creating the artwork for the puzzle, however, took about a day and a half of dropshadow and mask bonanza. Give it a try.

Canon – The Assignment Photo Gallery

The reason we haven’t updated our blog much lately is because we were busy working on about 7 different projects at the same time. One of them was this Flash Photo Gallery for the Cannon Assignment contest, which we built together with the great Manuel Dahm over at Cayenne Amsterdam. Have a look.

FITC Installation Online Simulation & Source Code

This is a modified version of our interactive installation featured at FITC Amsterdam. The actual bluetooth presence service has been replaced by a scripted simulator which randomly adds and removes people from the installation. Enter your name in the popup field in the bottom and you will be playing an instrument too!

As promised before the source of this installation can be downloaded here. Feel free to modify and use the source. All we ask is, if you do use it, document it somehow and post a comment back here. Thanx.

Interactive Installation at FITC Amsterdam

We are proud to announce our interactive installation at the FITC Amsterdam event. The installation will be installed in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam during the whole 3 days of the conference (Feb 24 – Feb 26) and is also accessible to visitors without tickets for FITC. So, if you missed out on the tickets before they sold out, you can still experience it.

Box2D Hourglass

It has been raining physics engines for the past few months and i’ve been eager to experiment with physic because you can do some really cool stuff with it. Drag the hourglass to turn it around, have fun!

Flash tagcloud

A 3d-ish tagcloud effect using the oldschool starfield effect. We were going to get the tags from a feed but we didn’t manage to find any “tag” feeds so the tags are hard coded for now.

Flash Sequencer with Popforge

We were working on a website project for which we wanted the music to be sequenced in Flash rather then loading an mp3, which would allow us to do realtime manipulation of the music sound and bpm. The logical place to start in that case is the wonderfull Popforge Library of André Michelle and Joa Ebert. We needed a sequencer engine to play our music in our project and a GUI to create the patterns in as a production tool.

Lines in 3D

Inspired by the wonderfull Audi A5 website, we set upon extending the Papervision 3D Lines3D Classes. We added perspective and fake shading to the line segments, while enhancing performance keeping it usefull for a website. Have a look >>

Animated Panorama

This is a prototype for a project we were working on which unfortunatelly got cancelled. Here we combined 180° panorama photography with camera movement. Click and drag to look around, use your arrow keys to animate and zoom in/out. Have a look >>

2D Psychedelics

As an exercise we recreated some 60′s Op Art works in AS3 and made them interactive. The most difficult thing was to analyze the originals without going insane. Version 1, Version 2, Version 3.

Sound analizer in 3D

Actionscript 3.0 has many new exciting features such as real time sound analysis and so fast that even 3d is an option. Great thanx to the papervision guys for making it possible! Have a look >>

Actionscript 2.0 vs 3.0

So how much faster is actionscript 3.0 than its predecessors? Well a lot! See for your self: AS 2.0, AS 3.0. In this simple example AS3 is about 6 times faster than AS2 but there are situations where it could be up to 100 times faster. This truly is an amazing speed bump for Flash.