Radiohead

So for my Sound assignment, I obviously went with a Radiohead tune.  Not really much to explain here.  Just a great looking seizure of the Radiohead bear.

Here's the final .swf posted on my site.

Hope you enjoy it!

http://animatera.com/Flash/audio.swf

Wine Label

Alright for this assignment, I wasn't quite sure what the hell I was supposed to do so I got an image from first semester and put it in a Sound Analyzer I made and encoded and saved a .png from it.  I then proceeded to import the image to Illustrator and traced over it to make a cool little design.  I downloaded some realistic wine bottles and opened it up in Photoshop and then brought the label from Illustrator into the wine bottle file and made a neat little bottle.

I then brought it back to Illustrator and decided to make a label for the back (which you wouldn't be able to see if I put it on the actual bottle).

Here's the final production!

Afraid of Spiders?

Hey arachnophobes,
Feel like conquering your spider phobias?  Well, this is no way to do but this is pretty awesome.  Last week I posted a link for a site that allows you to fool around with a drum machine.  I went back on that site and noticed this bad boy right here.

This Flash site allows you to maneuver a pretty disgustingly big spider around the screen by either it following your cursor or you clicking and dragging the ugly creature's legs.  You can also double-click or press spacebar to insert little insects on the screen.  And yes, the spider WILL eat the insects!

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

Flash Site Drum Machine

For all you drummers out there that can't play your drums because your parents will rip your heads off (I know from experience), this site is pretty neat and addicting.  It is a Flash based site if you were wondering.

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/drum-machine/

This site allows you to pretty much play the drums and create cool beats.  It has some demos and you can tweak some features around like tempo, volumes, and has some pretty cool effects.  Enjoy!

Valentine's Day...Just Missed It!

Valentine's Day just passed and I came across a tutorial that would've gotten me a date that night for sure!  I'm ok with it though...I think I'd much rather have done what I did and watched hockey all night while saving myself a hefty penny.  But nonetheless, for those who are interested for next year, here's a quick tutorial on how to mask a little "I love you" animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbl7eFRLTTE

What I'm Learning

So we were just introduced with HYPE framework this semester.  Nothing I have ever used before and it seems pretty cool.   I've been fiddling with some of the coding from the site and for the most part it seems fun and it allows you to do some pretty neat things.

My favourite feature it has is the Sound Analyzer.  I posted a week or 2 ago some .png's from my Kill Bill assignment.  Since then, I've been tweaking the code and changing the song that Flash is reading to make some pretty cool things.  A lot of the time, the outcome looked like seizure inducing files but if you get the code just right, you'd be pleasantly surprised with pure awesomeness.

Animation

Last week I mentioned Flash animations not being as good as After Effects.  I just came across this.  I still stick by my word but this is super awesome!  I wish I had the patience to do something this tedious.

It's nothing but 2 minutes of complete fun.  Probably took hours upon hours to make but the outcome is fantastic and if you have the time then it was well worth it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgwxXKsZhAo