1- First HipopotamStudio, good Studio reference from Poland, the makers of Bubol
2- How to be Creative: A video I´ve seen from someone I´m following on Twitter. I like the presentation and the graphics, as good as the ones from 180360720
To do this you need: - A camara, in this case, a broken Sony Ericsson W910. Yes it is broken, the effect of the image is not any plugin or filter, the mobile just fell down on the floor and its camera records as you see ;-] - One online designer, in this case my workmate Elena Balduque. - Free time and sense of humour. Well we did this on rest-times in our work. You can see here other videos like me eating chips here:
The aim was playing with cuepoints and events in AS3. I mus say, we recorded 10 videos, first one very long and then 9 different videos in nine positions, each one looking at the camara from a different view.
So first thing I tried was to implement the nine videos in a Flash via Netstream so as to deploy them. Once the user clicks any video this one becomes the central one and all the other videos just look at the selected one. The problem about this was that if you hadn´t a good connection videos were lost and all the experiment misunderstood.
So loading nine videos was near impossible. This is what I made: A timeline with 9 labels. So with the events I move from one to another depending on the position, is just adjusting.
This are some photos and videos about the website www.lospeces.es
Los Peces is a pop Spanish band from Spain. For their second LP we released a new version of their website. So this is how we made it:
First we had the previous website from 2006. It was me who made it. Just simple, a menu with a photo slide.
We had also a logo simulating the yin-yan, two fishes biting their tails: Before anything we had the new video of the band, with a stop-motion pop theme.
So, the video defined the cover of the album as you can see in the photo.
So, before doing anything we uploaded an "on construction website" with the launching day of the project, March 14th, just the day the LP was on the shops.
The first stories of the website: The election of one of the components of the band, relation to deep sea, fishes, bubbles, the menu...
More, we sent also a mailing to all the Media, radios, tvs and promos announcing the launching of the LP:
Next step was the promotion photos, so we met the photographer Blanca del Amo and we had this:
We had a good material. From some of the photos the illustrator made the draws, this first one for Santi:
On second place the draws for the singer, Clara: We had also more draws for the fishes, the background, etc. here´s one: About the programming: I would say this is a migration web from AS2 to AS3, it is made in Actionscript 3 but still with the forms of AS2. I didn´t have time to use a framework or so. For example I used the classes of GSkinner for Collision Detection, Tweenlite with recursive callings, Liquid Design from NoPonies, Google Analytics for AS3, etc.
Here the first trials, you can check the initial movement clicking. You can check the liquid design changing the browser width and height.
At the end we chose illustrations instead of photos. I have to say here, first time I saw the white background I told the designer: - Ey! But the sea is blue! She laughed a lot about this. So I gave up my narromind and realised: - Oh, it´s good to have a designer surprising me!
So, this is how the website works: There´s a little intro where you choose your character, then you just go swimming, you can go up or down pressing the mouse. Also there´s a wave and the sea background moving, with the fishes which are also the menu onRollOver:
We did also a bit of socializing and 2.0. This was: An oficial blog for the band components to post:
And a facebook profile sincronized with all the previous 2.0 content:
Lastly there´s a shop, we´re still building it:
These are the credits for all this:
Concept: Fernando Comet and Miriam Arjona illustration: Miriam Arjona Programming: Fernando Comet Loops: Santiago Comet Music: Los Peces Social nets: Fernando Comet and MarÃa DÃaz
This year has been a mixed cocktail as usual. First I should say that I have definitely jumped to flash programming and as a result you will see more contents related to this in the blog.
You won´t see code, there´re many blogs about it with better programmers than me. However you will find lots of contents related to Flash, interactivity, Flash Design sites, photograph and books´review. So Design and Interactivity will be the main line of the blog, a devigner´s blog.
Other important point in this blog has always been the preocupation about the work and job market for flashers and actionscript developers. For that we created the Actionscript Linkedin Group. I hope this initiative can help many people, recruiters and flashers.
In third place we will be keeping an eye to Flash Catalyst. I look forward to hearing the day I can play with it! Related to this we will talk about workflow, concepts and prototyping.
Other point of this blog is showing some experiments or labs that I just do: Animation, actionscript 3, interactivity, etc. I used to be a designer and like to show my works. I apologise if some is too bored of hearing "Comet!" every place here. ;-]
Lastly we will talk about events as MadInSpain, AdobeAirTour, AdobeMax, campaings of our fauvorite trademarks (Nike, Apple, etc), awards, interesting blogs, feeds and of course about Adobe.
I´d like to give thanks to every people reading or making comments in the blog. I began this as a hobby and am quite happy about this blog. So I hope you have a great time in 2009 and have fun!
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