HD Interaction

Alex – Red 5 live video chat

Last month I’ve been working on a live video chat application for Alex. The goal is to let the current clients of the bank to be ambassadors for potential new clients. The application uses Red 5 to support the live video and chat messages. The whole project consists out of three separate applications:

• The moderator application
• The ambassador application
• The client application

Client application

Ambassador application

Moderator application

The moderator application collects all question asked in the client application, after which they have to be approved before being send to the ambassador application. The ambassador answers the question through the web cam stream. Check the video below for a recorded example of the client application.

Papervision3D and inverse kinematics

Today I had some time to do some experimenting again. In the Placebo project I used 2D inverse kinematics on the octopus tentacles, so when that project was finished I was curious how that would work in 3D. Turns out not much different then the 2D version. Check out the result over here. I also added a drawing function to the experiment, just click the mouse on the canvas to turn drawing on and off and create your own artwork.

House of orange

Yesterday, a new website I’ve been working on with the guys from Random went live. It is the portfolio site for the modeling, photographer and stylist agency House of orange. For this site I created the architecture and data communication, as well as the menu and the collage view (e.g. the landing page). An extensive CMS is backing up the website for easy maintenance. Users can add their favorite images to a lightbox after which the lightbox can be downloaded onto their computer. You can check the website here.

Check out the video below for a recorded example of the website.

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.

Glow filter patterns

This afternoon I was in a designer furniture shop in Amsterdam. While I was there I spotted a carpet which was made up out of lines of fabric (check the image below).

This gave me the idea of doing something similar with code. It ended up being a pretty simple thing to do. You just need to start out with a basic shape, then you need to draw that shape onto a bitmap. The next step is to apply a glow filter with a specific color, and repeat this over and over again with different colors. You can try it out yourself over here. The result may end up something like this…

Johma

This week we (me and Dave) finished a project for Johma to celebrate their 40 year existence. As you can see we used the kaleidoscope I experimented with earlier. I also did the architecture of the site. Lemon scented tea made the design and Dave did all the animations for the menu, buttons etc. Check it out here.

Rijkswaterstaat game

A little game I made for Rijkswaterstaat went live today, to celebrate their brand new website. Its a simple shuffle puzzle with some nice animations. The funny animations are made by the guys over at QI. You can watch/play the final result here, or at www.rijkswaterstaat.nl.

NS Hispeedspotting

Last week I finished a game for NS Hispeed. The game consists of a nice green landscape with some butterflies. Press the button when the timer hits 0.00 and you can win a nice trip. Check it out here.

180 Amsterdam

Today the new website of 180 Amsterdam went live. I worked on it in October 2008 with the guys at random.nu. Just a little of what I  programmed back then actually made it to the final version except for some of some of the structure of the website and a couple of informational pages. Result looks great anyway . Jump to the 180 website by clicking here and check out one of the prototypes here.

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).