Oct 05
2009
lord of web standards
For any web designer/developer, validation is one of the key services offered to clients for their websites. Clients want “clean” websites, they want them to look the same in every browser and they want it to be accessible for all their users. This is no bad thing, far from it. With so many browsers for a user to choose from, having a set of standards in place is the only way forward. The downside to this is that the browser developers can choose which standards they adopt and which ones they don’t fancy supporting. (I’m looking at you Microsoft!). This used to be a massive problem in the web development industry. Browsers like Internet Explorer 6 rendered pages so vastly different from it’s rivals that numerous style sheets had to be used for any kind of consistency. To make matters worse IE6 became the most widely used browser on the Internet. Standards were not followed (I mean.. what was the point if the main browser you’re making it for didn’t support them anyway) and developers had to spend many extra hours making sites IE6 compliant..
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Oct 01
2009
Venom Animation
This was an idea I had for some Spiderman banners featuring Venom. The plan was it would start off with normal red Spiderman and then when you placed your mouse over the ad the venom tentacles would take it over. I did a few experiments with this, some involving frame by frame animation. This is the one that worked the best though. more…
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Sep 30
2009
flame effect
I love this effect and it was one of those things that just worked by accident. It uses various blend modes on a few different clips to get the effect. It’s hard to explain so I will do a tutorial for it soon.
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Sep 28
2009
transporter effect
This is an unused effect demo for the Enemy Territory banner campaign. We were looking for cool ways to have the weapons come in so I thought would make some kind of transporter. I made this in an afternoon using Flash combined with Flash Particle Studio.
I really like it, but in the end it was a bit processor and bandwidth heavy to use on website banners.
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Sep 27
2009
Isometric Buildings
Tasked with creating an interactive isometric city, here are some examples of my building designs that I created. All were drawn completelty in Flash with the use of an isometric grid in the background. The buildings themselves were placed inside the city which was a scrollable isometric city. The site itself hasn’t stood the test of time but I still think the individual buildings look cool.
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