Husband, father, designer and speed skater
Feb 11, 2009
I came across this wonderful resource of amazing ActionScript examples from Justin Windle at Soulwire. He had an example of dynamic positioning to achieve a full screen Flash layout. Unfortunately, it was ActionScript 2.0 and I am busy learning ActionScript 3.0. So, …
Feb 6, 2009
This code was an exercise in familiarizing myself with manipulating objects in the Display List. It involved taking the Drag-and-Drop in Flash CS3 Tutorial on dragging and dropping objects on a grid, and adding the ability to tween the movement of the objects from one …
Jan 30, 2009
Looking through the documentation for applying alpha transparency and rotation to a text field, I realized I need to learn something about embedding fonts. Searching for a solution led me to a solution: Making Alpha Work on AS3 Dynamic Text Fields.
This doesn’t …
A blog all about Papervision3D - real world examples of 3D Flash
A font parser for Papervision3D: James is in the process of writing a much leaner font parser that will have support for both TrueType and OpenType fonts. For now, use FontForge to convert OpenType to TrueType.
A panoramic interface, showcasing the work of Barcinski and Jeanjean in their Amsterdam-based interactive studio
Crisp 3D typography in Flash using Papervision3D and Vectorvision
Ever since his first experiences with the humble ZX81 back in the early eighties, interactive designer Brendan Dawes has continued to explore the interplay of people, code, design and art both in his role leading the team at mN as creative director and on brendandawes.com, a personal space where he publishes random thoughts, toys and projects created from an eclectic mix of digital and analog objects.