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Requirements...
Well,
quite obviously, you'll need Macromedia's Flash
Player/Plug-in to view these pieces... And ideally, your browser supports
JavaScript so the individual windows can pop up. :)
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A
silly card to start 2003
For the most recent installation of my holiday cards, I chose
to become more light-hearted – significantly more so
than in the previous one. In this sing along-cum-PSA, I incorporated
every picture I could find of myself with beverage in hand
(as well as some staged shots), wrote some parody lyrics,
and animated a bouncing liver, of all things, which was synchronized
to my own performance of a Christmas music medley. While I'm
sure the depicted imagery won't help my reputation, it was
certainly fun to make! |
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A
melancholy holiday card...
This is my personal holiday card that I created for the 2001/2002
holiday season. Incorporating my "Organik" artwork,
some poetry that I threw together in my mind, and the Vince
Guaraldi Trio's "Christmas Time is Here" - you know,
that song from the Charlie Brown Christmas special. |
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We
need a teaser, stat!
When Legacy Interactive was on the verge of releasing their
latest Emergency Room game, Code Blue, they needed
a teaser/trailer to run on the front of their web site, and
they needed it in short time.
This teaser incorporates artwork from the software's packaging,
while menu elements use the blue, green, and flashing to mesh
with the original art direction. Sounds had included ambulances,
ER dialogue from the game, and EKG blips, but had to be omitted
in order to keep the file size manageable for dial-up users.
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Shopping days left 'til X-mas
Shifting gears from the usually serious topic of Life/Death
games, Legacy Interactive wanted a simple, light-hearted animated
holiday greeting card for members of its email list.
Their original Christmas tree was given an animated ornament,
leading up to a simple holiday "scene" incorporating
animated snowlakes and a coupon disguised as a gift. All the
while, a 1950's-ish color palette and style were maintained.
(Hint: Click on the moving ornament) |
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"Coming
Soon to a Domain Near You"
When I first bought the Tavallai.com domain name, my hosting
company at the time had about the most hideous "Coming
Soon" placeholder page I'd ever seen. I had to work very
quickly to come up with this simple "trailer" to
hold the page for a few months until I had time to actually
flesh out this site.
If anything, this piece is far from being aesthetically outstanding.
It was more my goal to try to synchronize some of the motion
to the music (which, by the way, is Moby's "Next Is the
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More
of my own wares
When I set out to record some on-air promos (station IDs)
for my 'net radio station, I ended up making one particular
collage of radio tuning sounds and snippets of songs that
I thought may be mainstream enough to capture people's attention.
After setting up the overall structure of radio1328's web
site, I decided to waste some bandwidth by giving it all a
Flash intro, seen here. It incorporates the themes of solid
colors & rectangular lines, while synchronizing with the
music from the on-air promo. |
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3
slabs of text... Animated
While
a simple powerpoint presentation would have sufficed, one
of the goals at Prepay was to present some of our stuff in
a more hip way. This set of "3 Case Studies" was
probably overkill, but I thought I did alright for a spur-of-the-moment
project, particularlyconsidering it was my first time doing
anything in Flash.
I'm
not particularly proud of this piece: Just about everything
in it is rudimentary, but I thought it would be worthwhile
to show the curious how it was doing a Flash presentation
for the first time ever. I even made the backing beats myself.
(Yikes!)
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Wow...
That's pretty. And freakin' HUGE!
This is just an example I tried that never made it anywhere,
for the simple fact that 80k is way too huge for a simple
spinning logo that would have been used as a "Loading"
splash or something similar.
I think it's absolutely wonderful that we can do cool 3D stuff
in Flash, but the file sizes can be quite scary... Perhaps
this type of work will come in handy for CD-ROMs or when everybody
has monstrously huge bandwidth. |
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