Red Carpet Oscars Challenge

Here's another project, my first for Facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/peopleredcarpet/

Pick your Oscar choices and compare results with your friends after the Oscars this weekend...

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2D Barcodes

Here's a fun site I worked on for Sprint, that explains their 2D barcode technology. 2D barcodes can contain a lot more (n^2) information than a standard linear barcode. The neat thing is, you can scan the codes directly into your phone and access the data.

I was the technical lead on the project, and also created the 3D Environment using Papervision. The concept was developed by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, and the site was built by Cog1.

The lack of updates since October can be attributed almost entirely to my busy schedule. I hope to correct the problem and get back into posting soon.

A Happy Halloween Mix Tape from Fuzz

Here's a custom tape created using the Deck-o-Rator we released last week on Fuzz.com. Nice work!

Mix Tape Creator at Fuzz.com

A project I've been working on with Cog1 just went live today at fuzz.com and we got a nice write-up in the Tech section of today's San Francisco Chronicle.

The site lets you create and share music "mix tapes" featuring artists from the Fuzz music library. The tape animations are created using the Papervision 3D library, which has been taking the Flash world by storm. The tape and case are Collada models created in 3D Studio. The models have that have transluscent textures applied to them at run time. Also, the textures are dynamic you can change the text, or drag and drop sprites onto the 3D model and see the model update in real time. I believe we may be the first commercial site to do something this ambitious with Papervision.

ActionScript Gotcha #345: Recursive Getter

Here's a great way to create an infinite loop, and crash the Flash player with a stack overflow:


public function get myVar(): MovieClip
{
return myVar;
}


Yes, that should be:


public function get myVar(): MovieClip
{
return _myVar;
}


A single missing underscore leads to disaster!

Darkon Name Generator

Here's one of a couple of projects I've been busy on lately. It's a Flash activity to promote the new film Darkon from IFC -- a documentary about live-action role playing gamers.

It was coded for Flash 8, entirely using FlashDevelop. Art and animation were created by Cog1.

Enjoy!

Comments

I spent today reviewing my blog, and -- in addition to a bunch of comment spam -- there were a couple of interesting comments on some of my older posts. Thanks to search engines, it looks like old posts will sometimes bubble to the top and keep getting hits. I tried to go back and reply to questions where appropriate. I want to encourage people to comment, and I'll do my best to read them.

If you just started following my blog, don't hesitate to dig into the archives for some good reading.