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- 50 Fresh Interactive Studio and Social Media Agency Websites
This is a very inspiring collection of digital/interactive agency websites. Note the ratio of flash to html sites. - Web Design Inspiration for the iPhone
Finally! A Gallery of sites designed for iPhone! - 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
This looks like an awesome collection of tutorials to create all kinds of great things in illustrator. - 50 Useful New JQuery Techniques
With all the great JQuery and CSS effects I distance myself from Flash more and more. - Labuat
This is one of the coolest Flash/Music integrated sites ever!
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Current Trends
Shake it!
Posted October 2nd, 2008 in Current Trends | No Comments »
As a creative person in the Ad industry, sometimes it can be a challenge to come up with an advertising piece that people actually notice. It’s tough now-a-days because we’ve all become descensitized to online ad media. However, I have to point out this new ad for Wario Land for Wii. It breaks out of [...]
Taking 3D to the web… seriously
Posted September 19th, 2008 in Current Trends, Web Tools | No Comments »
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This new technology opened my eyes to a whole new world. I’ve been struggling with Flash and Papervision3D in terms of online 3D content and interactivity. Papervision is awesome, don’t get me wrong, but it lacks the render engine for some serious [...]
Top 10 weblog engines reviewed
Posted September 16th, 2008 in Current Trends | No Comments »
For some of you out there is may be painfully obvious that I use WordPress as the backbone of my blog. However, some people out there are completely in the dark when it comes to choosing and setting up a blog system for the first time.
This is a great article reviewing the top 10 weblog [...]
Coverage3D
Posted September 15th, 2008 in Current Trends | No Comments »
This is a freaking good way to use Papervision3D. This opens the door for all kinds of creative and effective ways to build virtual environments. This particular site promos their “3D Online Event Coverage” service. Cool concepts, we’ll see if it catches on. But from the standpoint of achieving great environmental 3D in [...]
The ultimate in user photo upload
Posted August 28th, 2008 in Current Trends | 2 Comments »
I’ve seen a few awesome uses of user photo upload functionality on viral sites like the McDonalds Face the Glory site from a few days ago. Three dimensional technology has been sneaking into flash sites more and more, specifically the Oddcast technology which maps a users uploaded photo to a 3D face model. This creates [...]
Face the Glory
Posted August 22nd, 2008 in Current Trends | No Comments »
Although I’m not a huge McDonalds fan, their Olympic promo site has an awesome viral video feature. I’ve attached both of mine to this post. This would be a fun little proof of concept project just to figure out how to do this in flash. Anyone interested in helping out?