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Monday, October 29, 2007

3D Bitmap skew v3 »

This is an extension of the 3D Bitmap skew v2 post, this time I wanted to add a back side to the image.  The technique is similar to the 3D flip code I posted a while back. If you use the slider to animate the image flips and the back side becomes...

Friday, October 26, 2007

3D Bitmap skew v2 »

Instead of placing it in a 3D world using a 3D engine, I decided to simply use the basic skew properties.  Basic skew simply crunches the image horizontally, giving the impression that the image is rotating on itself.  Combined with the displacementMap...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

3D Bitmap skew »

I love the I-Tunes cover flow view. I like the way the album images distort as they rotate. I started looking for ways to create a bitmap skew that simulates a 3D object  rotating in space.  One of the  challenges I had was not to use...

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Voices That Matter Conference »

Coming up in San Francisco is a little know lecture series packed with great speakers and topics.   The Pearson Education Voices That Matter Conference series gives voice to the most important thought leaders in technology, design, and business...

Friday, October 05, 2007

Light effect v2 »

In the folowing example,  I am using a similar script as the one posted yesterday, although I decided to include a extra line on top of the blured one and I spaced out the x points and no longer delete the line.  I wait for the animatiojn...

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Light effect v1 »

Using the drawing API I draw a line between two points.  I then decided to create and store a random y positions in a n array in order to draw a zigzag shapes (see last post).  I now blur the  created line to give a halo or fire effect....

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Light effect v0 »

A few months ago I was asked to create a light streaking effect in flash for the new sprint.com campaign. The following posts will be dedicated in the acheivement of that specific effect.  I decided to start by using teh drawing API and draw a...

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Animation Tween Class released  »

Happy to say that I have restarted coding in the past weeks and will be posting new experiments in the coming days and weeks.  For starters, I wanted to release my easing tween fclass that I wrote based on the easing formula posts.  The basic...