HD Interaction

Placebo interactive videoclip

About two months ago, Champagne Valentine won a pitch to make the video clip for the song “The Never-Ending why” from Placebo. In addition to that video clip they also wanted to create an interactive video clip. Random teamed up with them and with lots of hard work from lots of talented people the result ended up to be awesome. To check out the original video clip, click here. To check out the interactive video clip, click here.

The cool thing about the project was that lots of Flash animation and scripted animations are use in the normal video clip, for which we had to create tools to record the motion first, and later render it out frame by frame in flash. The animations I worked on (both linear and interactive) are the squid scene and the tunnel scenes.

Kaleidoscope

Yesterday I did a little experiment to simulate a kaleidoscope. First I added some mouse interaction to  it, so the user could drag the mouse to change the shape, but then I decided it would be more fun to let the kaleidoscope react to music. So turn on you sound and check it out here. Click on the movie to change the photo that is used to generate the image.

Axe Instinct roar tool

Yesterday for Hyves, and today for Netlog and Skyrock the Axe Instinct “Roar tool” is available as an Open Social gadget. I worked on it with the guys at Mediarepublic since mid January. It enables users to record their best “roar” with a microphone, choose a theme and tweak the roar with the actionscript 3.0 Popforge library before sending it to a friend. Its fun to do and the idea is to show off your cavemen instincts to your friends, or to just send a funny message. Check it out here. (Hyves, Netlog or Skyrock account required).

Sound and Papervision3D

A long time ago when Papervision3D was just released, I did some experiments with sound. I used the capabilties of flash to analyze the spectrum of the sound that’s been played back and generated 3D triangles to match the output. I lost the original but I thought it would be fun the remake the demo. You can watch and listen to the result here.