We are proud to announce the launch of the portfolio website we created for the London-based design and art direction studio Wallzo. No flashy 3D stuff this time, but a clean, sober browsing experience. Have a look.

What if Joseph and Mary had access to faster modes of transportation when seeking a place to give birth? And what would have happened if they had taken a wrong turn leading them away from Bethlehem? Those are questions that have been occupying the minds of theologists for centuries. Finally, with the help of today’s latest 3D technology, Y & R, Flashfabriek and Barcinski & Jeanjean have tried to answer those questions. Have a look.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Mark & Adrien

We are proud to announce that our website has been awarded the Achtung Uber Flash Award. In case you didn’t know Achtung, they are one of the hottest online add agency in the Netherlands. They have delivered high quality websites that have been awarded the FWA many times already.

Our website has also been awarded website of the month by the UK “.Net” magazine (aka “Practical Webdesign” outside the UK) and has been featured in dutch edition of “Webdesigner” and in “Publish”, a great dutch magazine for (multi)media professionals.

Earlier this month we created some visuals for a social RFID installation. More details, photos and videos here.

Well, here it is. After 3 months of hard work fun our “Coming Soon” page has finally been replaced by a brand new website. The coming weeks we will be posting a series of “Making of” articles about our use of Papervision3D, Vectorvision, 3D Physics, Photography and more. Today a few lines on the general concept of the website. 

The vision for the panorama view came to us in november last year while we were brainstorming on another project (the one for which we prototyped a spherical video panorama). We would stand in one of Amsterdam’s many beautiful scenes with everybody around us walking by going about their business. Around us our portfolio work would be hanging in the air in the form of paper flyers. Envisioning viewing that with 3D glasses being able to move around us, filled us with excitement. We are already familiar with viewing photo’s and movies with 3D glasses, but I can’t really say I had had an interactive experience using 3D glasses before. 

By creating a 360º panorama from a stop motion video rather than from multiple stills stitched together, allowed us to capture the movement of the subjects in the scene. The price to pay however was much bigger file size. To make up for the wait while the video content preloads before being granted access to the panorama view we thought it would be cool to revamp the traditional Pong waiting game into a solitary 3D version that could also benefit from viewing with 3D glasses.

But the added file size was worth it. When we first reached the point in development that we had a placeholder 360º video panorama overlaid with a badly keyed-out test shoot of us taken in from of a purple screen (yes, we hadn’t ordered the green screen yet), that we realized just how interesting it actually is to gently turn the 360º and observe the many people, boats and occasional “motor agent”, as they call them here in Holland, pass by.

The location was almost an automatic choice. Besides the fact that it’s beautiful, it’s right around the corner from our studio. But this is mearly the first panorama to feature on the site. As it’s simply a question of modifying some XML to change the panorama in the website, and, well, shooting the new footage of course, we plan on adding new panoramas to the site in the future, probably starting with a new shoot this fall.

For the past few months, in between other projects, I have been working on a website for a very talented photographer, who also happends to be my sister, Géraldine Jeanjean. She is about to release a book which portraits a small village situated in the most sparsely populated region in France, called Aumont. The idea behind the website was to offer two ways to explore Aumont by combining horizontal and vertical navigation. Horizontaly gives you an impression as you would get by walking in and around the village; you see landscapes, meet a person, notice a house, meet another person, maybe even noticing an old family portrait hanging on the wall in a local bar. All these different aspects mixed together. Verticaly, however, you can explore Aumont within one aspect; meet all the people in a row, or take a walk outside the village to enjoy all the landscapes, or take the architectural route by going up or down on a photograph of a building. A decision to make for each photo; which way to go? But don’t worry, no matter which way you choose, you will see them all. Have a look.

Just finished a personalized introduction animation in Flash which explains some of the most important possibilities of the relatively complex and feature heavy T-Mobile Business Administration application. Have a look >>

Aimed at announcing & promoting the upcoming book Family Tree by photographer Ringel Goslinga, this website started off on an interaction concept. We wanted to add a new experience in exploring this series besides flipping through a book or viewing the pictures at an exposition, in a way that is unique to this medium. Have a look >>

We just finished the website for a Coebergh campaign centered around a vacancy at The Red Fruit Farm which needs to be filled as soon as possible. Visitors to the website can appy for the job by completing an application process consisting of 6 mini-games. You better be a Woman of legal drinking age. Have a look >>

This portfolio website of artist Rinske Dekker illustrates her particular interests and subjects. It clearly shows that her fresh and clean paintings fit very well together as an installation, but can also stand their own individually. Have a look >>

By combining photography, video and sounds our aim was to faithfully translate artist Anne Walk’s current exposition into an online interactive experience. And at the same time allowing her to provide additional information on her work. Have a look >>

With the release of their debut album “TheGreyLight”, which I produced together with Aux, the MeloManics website needed to be rebuilt to reflect the new style of the band and album. For the album artwork a set was built of a room with everything in it coated with a layer of grey latex, so obviously the theme color of the website was going to be grey. To avoid me having to do the updates, the content is entirely manageable by the band members themselves. Have a look >>