http://charlesclements.net/blog Sharing knowledge and experience on Interactive. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:10:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I started working out some experiments with dynamic video effects. This one in particular uses the activityLevel from the microphone. I hooked up a scaling effect along with some DisplacementMap video I created and exported from AfterEffects. Below is a video I created of one of my coworkers acting ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/05/17/as3-kool-dynamic-video-distortion-part-1/ I came across this today. These free icons can come in handy for future app development. http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/05/14/1000-free-icons-for-flex/ Animation, cartoons... where would I be without them today? Something about the whole concept of being able to bend reality, stretch solid objects, and put someone's body thru tortuous contorting, yet he still bounces back within five frames resonates with my soul. Tex Avery is my hero. His was the ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/05/09/cartoons-saved-my-life/ This is a perfect example of how simple and effective Flash games can be. You hold the mouse down and move the cursor to shoot orbs. Why the hell are we so intrigued by such simple concepts? I could sit here for hours and play this without getting bored. ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/05/05/vector-wars-flash-game-so-simple-so-addictive/ VIEW CAMPAIGN LAYOUT We worked with AMV-BBDO to produce the whole interactive side for Guinness Tipping and I must say that this presentation illustrates to the vastness of the campaign. A project can potentially be so large that a single slide cannot do it justice. We built everything that was internet ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/04/23/guinness-tipping-an-impressive-layout-of-the-whole-interactive-campaign/ I've been taking advantage of this short slowed time period to increase my tech-knowledge (don't ask where that term came from, I just made it up as I was writing). I know that Adobe has really been pushing Flex and AIR, so that would be my logical progression / extension ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/04/21/expanding-horizons-starting-to-work-with-flex-3-and-air/ LAUNCH PROJECT Another project, another crazy deadline. Hopefully the end result of this project brings a smile to everyone who encounters it, adults and children alike. Build a virtual Ice Cream Sundae and print out your creation! Fun for the whole family! Go to your local Friendly's and tell Joe Friendly ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/04/09/i-wanna-go-to-friendlys/ LAUNCH Allow me to say that as much heart ache and pain doing these banners brought, this is one of the most amazing feats me and my team have ever accomplished in banner....dom. Props goes out to my friend and coworker Steve Cucinotta for soldiering thru this. I managed, oversaw, and ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/04/07/toyota-sequoia-banner-the-most-advanced-banner-ive-ever-done/ DOWNLOAD PAGE This is a very handy APP. It got me out a bind recently when the client sent us an FLV when we were expecting an uncompressed video. The production company was trying to charge more money just to send the uncompressed version we were originally expecting. I was able ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/03/13/air-flv-editor/ DOWNLOAD SOURCE This example just builds off the last example but I was just having a little more fun. I added a few more walls and dynamically added wheels to the APEngine to see multiple wheel collisions. I also modified the default elasticity property of the wheel to make the collisions ... http://charlesclements.net/blog/2008/03/13/ape-tutorialexample-2-flash-physics-engine-adding-walls-and-multiple-collisions/