Flash

posted 02/16/08 by Rick Webb

Flash. Boy, do we do a lot of Flash. Maybe not as much, percentage-wise, as we used to, but we still do a whole lot. And now, video projects are Flash projects. It’s crazy.

Here are some recent posts from our employees about Flash:

McRozinHodgin Dice Mirror

Tonight, I decided to take another step in the short evolution of Robert’s fun dice-table images. Mario Klingemann raised the bar with his Aviary filter that transforms images into dice-images. In addition to all that awesomeness, you can now play with a real-time dice mirror in your web browser. Enjoy. Interact: dice mirror Source (.zip): dice mirror [...]

Random-Walking Cubes

I finally returned to a 3-d random walk sketch I set up in Flash a few months ago. Happily, Papervision3D now reliably initializes the graphics context and actually renders the cubes inside the flash player (I downloaded the latest Great White and patched my code over tonight). The cubes bounce along on a random trajectory and [...]

Flash in the Can

Haha ben spoke at Flash in the can and wore his CNN shirt. Cross promotion!

Too Many Words and Not Enough Pictures

So I was checking out the hubub over at adweek on our new site. We were winning the vote earlier on, but I’ll let Grey have their way. That’s cool. Luckily other reviews have been more positive.
It’s interesting, though. I note two threads in those comments: first, that we were known as a Flash house, so why do we have such a “boring” site? And secondly, “too many words!” Who has time to read all those words? I felt a brief surge of panic that I always feel when hit with a little criticism, but I figured hey! We have a site where we have to write all the time now! I may as well write out our thinking on the matter.