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September 26, 2007
August 31, 2007
Depth of Field with Papervision 3D
mrdoob has been playing with Papervision 3D in his lab and the results are very nice indeed. Stunning in fact.
Papervision3D is an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform, written and maintained by a small core team, and contributed to by a growing community.
A real world example of the engine in action is Paper Critters, an online application for creating and sharing 3D paper toys. Its a polished piece of work that uses Papervision 3D to display content created in 3DS Max.
Coincidently the guy behind mrdoob, Ricardo Cabello has just been hired by the agency Hi-ReS! A longtime fan of their work I see they recently did the movie site to Darren Aronofsky's time traveling tale, The Fountain. Which kind of makes sencse as they did the movie site for his earlier film, Requiem for a Dream. Quality Flash work.
August 14, 2007
Echochrome
This game looks very cool indeed. It's based around that kind of impossible-object drawing that you'd see on the front of maths books in school but requires you to rotate & move the objects to allow a little man to reach his goal.
I love the way it completely messes with your sense of space and yet it has a very definite internal logic of it's own. I'd imagine it's one of those games which if played too much would cause you to see objects slightly weirdly for a while afterwards.
May 11, 2007
3D Flex Demo
This Flex demo shows off the way standard components can be shown within a 3D environment and yet still be usable. Pretty cool.
(via theflashblog)
January 30, 2007
limbo
i think ive always wanted for there to be a game made like this.
im a big believer that if a concept is solid enough it can be represented
by the most restricted colour palette and still pull it off.
January 22, 2007
Ambient Data
You might have seen Nabaztag (it's available from Firebox and other reputable establishments). It's a plastic rabbit ornament which connects to the internet using WiFi and can then sing and dance in a kind of informative way based on the data it finds there.
You can program it via their website (a nice way to keep the set up simple) and get it to read voicemails, or tell you the weather, or flash when you've got a new email and a bunch of other stuff.
It reminds me of the Availibot, the Ambient Orb and things like WiFi digital picture frames which have started popping up. They're a bit like desktop widgets, but for your real desktop not your metaphorical one!
At the moment I guess there's a certain "early adopter" target market for most of these things, but if you could create something slightly cheaper, and with less set up options (e.g. checking an email account we already know you have) so people could just plug them into a power socket and they'd just work, I think people would love them. Also in terms of the physical form they take, and the way they get your attention, the possibilities are endless.
Seems like a nice fun way for people to get something a bit more tangible out of their wireless router.
November 27, 2006
CG shpere
Oh this tickles me!
Film has Cannes and Plam d'or, TV has the Baftas...and what does 3D have???
The CGsphere of course
Geeky though it is...it does illustrate how creative you really have to be to turn something as standard
as the 3D spehere into something that demands attention!
November 16, 2006
cute norweigan anims
found some really cute anims by a norweigan agency.
check out the ones for "Jippo Beef".
nice to see some ultra happy - cute stuff for a change
October 09, 2006
Rust Boy
All this rust talk reminded me to re-visit www.rustboy.com, it's a lovely website which I've been following for what must be a least 5 years.
Rustboy is a short film project that started out as a hobby but has evolved into a more ambitious movie and several side projects. It's even more impressive when you find out it's all being produced by only one person, Brian Taylor.
The aim of the website is to document the making of the film as it progresses from concept art to storyboards, 3D tests, sound etc.
http://www.rustboy.com
October 04, 2006
3D interactive room (almost)
Key and I are going to begin work on some 3D product demos, but also want to make something more interactive and useful. We're thinking of creating a homely 3D space like Vintage55 have done (see below) with Orange products placed here and there. Hopefully our users will be able to relate to this more than static images on product pages. The limitations of the Vintage55 site are that you can't interact with the 3D space, but our thing is going all the way. Contact me or Paul if you want to get involved. Cheers
September 26, 2007
August 31, 2007
Depth of Field with Papervision 3D
mrdoob has been playing with Papervision 3D in his lab and the results are very nice indeed. Stunning in fact.
Papervision3D is an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform, written and maintained by a small core team, and contributed to by a growing community.
A real world example of the engine in action is Paper Critters, an online application for creating and sharing 3D paper toys. Its a polished piece of work that uses Papervision 3D to display content created in 3DS Max.
Coincidently the guy behind mrdoob, Ricardo Cabello has just been hired by the agency Hi-ReS! A longtime fan of their work I see they recently did the movie site to Darren Aronofsky's time traveling tale, The Fountain. Which kind of makes sencse as they did the movie site for his earlier film, Requiem for a Dream. Quality Flash work.
August 14, 2007
Echochrome
This game looks very cool indeed. It's based around that kind of impossible-object drawing that you'd see on the front of maths books in school but requires you to rotate & move the objects to allow a little man to reach his goal.
I love the way it completely messes with your sense of space and yet it has a very definite internal logic of it's own. I'd imagine it's one of those games which if played too much would cause you to see objects slightly weirdly for a while afterwards.
May 11, 2007
3D Flex Demo
This Flex demo shows off the way standard components can be shown within a 3D environment and yet still be usable. Pretty cool.
(via theflashblog)
January 30, 2007
January 22, 2007
Ambient Data
You might have seen Nabaztag (it's available from Firebox and other reputable establishments). It's a plastic rabbit ornament which connects to the internet using WiFi and can then sing and dance in a kind of informative way based on the data it finds there.
You can program it via their website (a nice way to keep the set up simple) and get it to read voicemails, or tell you the weather, or flash when you've got a new email and a bunch of other stuff.
It reminds me of the Availibot, the Ambient Orb and things like WiFi digital picture frames which have started popping up. They're a bit like desktop widgets, but for your real desktop not your metaphorical one!
At the moment I guess there's a certain "early adopter" target market for most of these things, but if you could create something slightly cheaper, and with less set up options (e.g. checking an email account we already know you have) so people could just plug them into a power socket and they'd just work, I think people would love them. Also in terms of the physical form they take, and the way they get your attention, the possibilities are endless.
Seems like a nice fun way for people to get something a bit more tangible out of their wireless router.
November 27, 2006
November 16, 2006
cute norweigan anims
found some really cute anims by a norweigan agency.
check out the ones for "Jippo Beef".
nice to see some ultra happy - cute stuff for a change
October 09, 2006
Rust Boy
All this rust talk reminded me to re-visit www.rustboy.com, it's a lovely website which I've been following for what must be a least 5 years.
Rustboy is a short film project that started out as a hobby but has evolved into a more ambitious movie and several side projects. It's even more impressive when you find out it's all being produced by only one person, Brian Taylor.
The aim of the website is to document the making of the film as it progresses from concept art to storyboards, 3D tests, sound etc.
http://www.rustboy.com
October 04, 2006
3D interactive room (almost)
Key and I are going to begin work on some 3D product demos, but also want to make something more interactive and useful. We're thinking of creating a homely 3D space like Vintage55 have done (see below) with Orange products placed here and there. Hopefully our users will be able to relate to this more than static images on product pages. The limitations of the Vintage55 site are that you can't interact with the 3D space, but our thing is going all the way. Contact me or Paul if you want to get involved. Cheers
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