MotionList – Windows Phone 7 Metro UI style lists

Here is small experiment I’ve done in AS3 called Motion List. Motion List is a class that creates a list or grid of items with similar animations to the upcoming Windows Phone 7 UI’s ‘Metro’ transitions. I love the new UI for WP7 and thought I’d try and recreate a little bit of it in […]

August 17, 2010

Guitar Shots

Here is another short video I made to test my new lens – a Canon EF 50mm F1.4. The clip is a bunch of close up shots of my guitars and basses recorded at 1920×1080 24fps. I love the really shallow depth of field of the lens. Footage was graded with Magic Bullet Looks.

August 15, 2010

Box Hill edit – A short video test with the Canon 7D

I got a Canon 7D the other week, and what better way to test out the video features than to make a push bike edit. So on the weekend I hit up the Box Hill skate park for a ride and filmed some of the locals. Shot with Canon 7D + – Canon EFS 18-135mm […]

August 9, 2010

A couple cool videos…

Here are some cool videos I found during the week. The first one is a racing game which consists of a classic arcade racing unit, an RC car and a cardboard track. Players use the arcade box to drive the RC car around the cardboard track. Pretty cool! This second video is a nice demo […]

August 7, 2010

AS3: Code hinting, completion and highlighting in Air apps

Over the last couple of months I have been working on a text editor, for which I made a history manager class that I posted about a little while back. This time as a bit of an experiment/challenge I tried to include some code hinting and code completion functionality to the editor similar to Dreamweaver, […]

August 6, 2010

Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops

This is probably one of the best concepts I’ve seen recently for interactive tabletops. Tangible controls/widgets that can be controlled by magnets to self switch and move across the table. There is also a very interesting approach for redirecting IR light around the magnets so the cameras can pick up the widgets’ presence. Check out […]

August 3, 2010

Inspiring Inspiration #2

Here is a small collection of inspiration. Disruptive by Design Popup Font Book Cellograff Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Microsoft Research

Although it might not seem like it Microsoft is really along way ahead of nearly all the other major tech companies. But no one really gets to see their cool stuff because it takes place in their research centres and doesn’t always make it into consumer products. Below is a collection of videos from Microsoft […]

July 29, 2010

Magnetic Words Multitouch App

Here is a small app I created in Flash in less than 10 minutes (most of that time was getting words!). Inspired by those fridge magnets which are a bunch of words that can be mixed and matched to make obscure and hilarious sentences. Excuse the dodgey touch response at the start… my screen still […]

July 14, 2010

Making a title sequence

I’ve decided to make a motion graphic title sequence for a fictional movie… because title sequences are awesome. And because I have been working on a motion graphic intro sequence for a client. Below is a storyboard and a camera flow layout which I have made up in Illustrator which I will use to animate […]

July 5, 2010

Forlorn Gaze Motion Graphics

I just updated my folio with the following work. It is some motion graphic work I did earlier on this year for A.K.A Nancy Vaudeville. I animated logo idents and motion graphics for a short film called Forlorn Gaze which is a mockumentary about an Emo band. It was originally a web series for TripleJ […]

July 4, 2010

AS3: History Manager Class

Recently at work I have been building a text editing application to help speed up the process of adding HTML tags to text for Flash. Today I wrote a simple reusable history management class to enable undo/redo on a text field. This is the first version so there may still be some bugs. I also […]

June 23, 2010