Mac vs PC Minisite

Heres a project I had to do for my Multimedia Design Class. We needed to pick a subject that is up for debate. I decided to do Mac vs PC, seemed to be more fun than smoking or something like that.

I went for a fun UI approach and make it like a desktop. Click on the icons and a window pops up that you can drag around, minimize, etc. It was a pretty fun project. Best of all I got an A!!!!!!.

I also posted the code for anyone who was curious.

Check out the site here

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AS 3.0, Animation, Design

XML Based Navigation

Just something I whipped up trying to build up my portfolio of web elements. This navigation element grabs the urls from an xml file, so you can update the links without having to open the flash file for fast updating of links. Any questions drop me a line.

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Animation, Design, XML

Papervision Practice - Transition Effect in 3D…

I’ve been messing around with the new Papervision the past couple days. It seems to still have a couple of bugs but overall is pretty good so far. There is also some extensive documentation now. I posted a couple of days ago a cool transition effect. I thought it would be good practice to port this over to 3D. It was fairly easy, had some hang ups with the materials, but after reading through them and looking up some tutorials, it was a piece of cake. Only problem i am having now is that I can’t seem to make it interactive. I followed what you are supposed to do but it’s not working for me. So to see the effect over again, You have to refresh.

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3D, AS 3.0, Animation

New Class from Jack aka Mr GreenSock…

I just checked my email to find that Greensock has come out with a new class. The Custom Ease Class. Now this is a pretty powerful class. It allows you to create custom easing instead of using the default Back, Bounce, Elastic, etc.

Jack ”

Sometimes the standard easing equations(Elastic, Strong, etc.) don’t give
you quite what you want. This tool allows you to interactively draw a curve
for your own custom easing equation and it even writes the code for you.
Just copy and paste it into your application. The code it writes requires
the gs.easing.CustomEase class which is a membership benefit of Club
GreenSock.

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AS 3.0, Animation, Class, Flash News

Cool Transition Effect

Here are some examples of a pretty cool effect that Kheavy taught me. Its a pretty simple effect but it works well if implemented properly. Many thanks Kheavy.

Below are 5 different variations of the same effect. In the last example, I implemented a picture reveal and disappear. Just click on each movie to see the transition. I realized that what majorly affects the outcome of how the transition behaves is what is put into the delay. I only supplied the source for the first transition. The rest are just variations of it. So play around to get some crazy results.

TweenLite is needed for this to work. You can replace the TweenLite code with any Tween Engine of your choice.

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AS 3.0, Animation

Speed Particles Example 2

Just another example of the Speed Particles. There so many possibilities.

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3D, After Effects, Animation