Photo Painter App
Here is my latest experiment in Flash… this time its an app that takes a source image (jpg) and paints it giving it a very painterly look. You can tweak some of the settings such as brush size and blur. The image above was created using this. You can download the Air installer or source […]
April 27, 2010
ParticlePlayground Air App
Over the last week or two I have been playing around with particle systems and creating my own to learn all the maths equations behind them. Why? I was playing with Trapcode Particular and started wondering what all the maths behind it was. So I started creating my own particle system in Flash from the […]
April 21, 2010
AS3 Gradient Slider
Recently I starting working on a little project in Flash ( I will post on this later when I am ready to show it) which required some kind gradient slider like what you would see in the Flash IDE and Illustrator etc, where you can move colours around and add or remove them form the […]
April 17, 2010
Playing with Scriptographer
While at work today I didn’t have anything to do so I decided to learn how to use the Illustrator plug-in called Scriptographer. Scriptographer is a pulg-in which enables you to write custom brushes, filters or generative stuff using Javascript. The above image shows my first attempt at creating a generative brush. Basically it draws […]
April 9, 2010
Forlorn Gaze Short Film
Recently I have completed some motion graphic work for a short film called Forlorn Gaze. I worked with the creator at Nancy Vaudeville and graphic director at Symphonic Pixels to composite graphics and effects onto stop motion pieces for the intro title sequence, three logo idents throughout the film, and a news report intro. The […]
April 6, 2010
WiiFFiti – A WiiFlash experiment
Recently I have been experimenting with WiiFlash – using a Wii remote to control Flash. Below is a video of my first test app. It is a spray painting app like the WiiSpray though obviously not at featured. I will make the Flash projector file available soon. Update 2-6-2012: Get the app here. Note that […]
March 31, 2010
Controlling MovieClips with WiiFlash
I decided to learn how to use WiiFlash after seeing the WiiSpray and a number of other videos a while ago. Turns out it is surprisingly easy! The only problem I had was trying to get a MovieClip to move around the stage as a mouse… I couldn’t find anything anywhere that clearly expained how […]
March 30, 2010
My Multitouch Tangible Shooting Experiment
Last night I started building a shooting game in AS3 using tangible objects placed on my touch screen. This was inspired by the video I showed in the previous post. The video below shows my first test with directional shooting, though I havent added targets in yet. Since my set up uses FTIR technology I […]
March 26, 2010
Tangible Gaming with Multi-touch
Found this cool video on the NUI Group forums showcasing an Asteroids game that Javier Marco has created, using actual objects placed on the screen as spaceships that shoot enemies. Very cool. Watch the video below. I think I might try something like this when I get some free time!
March 25, 2010
AS3 Image distortion
I have added a new post to the Lab section. Recently I have been experimenting with Ruben Swieringa‘s ImageDistortion class, and I have put up a couple of examples which you can play with.
December 11, 2009
3D Motion tracking and Particle Generators
One of my current project for uni is going to invole sound driven animation with a possibility of some 3D motion tracking. Below are just a couple test videos I have made using PFHoe for motion tracking, Trapcode Particular for the particle generation, and Trapcode SoundKeys for the audio driven animation.
September 15, 2009
A nice app created for Microsoft Surface
June 12, 2009