The Eco Zoo
Impressive flash/3D based site from McCann Erickson. Check out the pop up book sections.
Mind. Blown.
Domani Flash Hero Gives & Gets Love
Check out this FDT 3.0 blog post.
The Power Flasher peeps chatted up Oscar at FITC to see what we thought about FDT 3.0 (hint: digging it). But the best part of the video is the end. Ah shucks, it makes us blush.
It’s all true folks. Come on over!
Flash 10?! Slow down, I’m feeling old.
I’ve been looking into the new features coming up in Flash 10 (code-named Astro) and I love what I see. Advanced text layout, enhanced drawing API, inverse kinematics…wait…inverse kinematics?! Check out this demo of the Adobe Flash 10 website.
This brings back memories of the the kinematic character system that we built for the most recent Starbucks holiday campaign. Building and animating people, Christmas trees, bears, nutcrackers, and snowmen that pass cheer all around the world is fun! A small part of me fears that having features like built-in inverse kinematic tools in the Flash IDE may just make things a bit too easy.
Maybe this is what it was like to switch from Flash 7 to Flash 8? We’ll have to ask the dinosaurs about that one. Funny thing is, at the lightning pace Adobe is on right now, in not too long, I’ll be the dinosaur talking about how we used to code kinematic animation by hand in Flash 10 with AS3. Godspeed Adobe. Cheer-passing astronauts anyone?
Iron Man and the Computer Interface
Great article on the new movie Iron Man, and a large character in the movie itself, the visual interfaces of the computer screens.
One of my biggest pet peeves is watching movies and television with these intricate interfaces composited in. They always show a computer that handles ridiculous renders in real time and insane applications that completely ignore all norms of visual interface design (CSI comes to mind). Something about these programs and interfaces set in a “real-world” environment completely lose it for me, yet I feel, as this author did that the Iron Man screens are a step in the right direction, an aesthetically pleasing look into the future of computer interfaces… albeit a direction some 50 years still off!
Also, the end credits were, in a word, badass.
