High-ish Def Versions of United Airlines Animated Commercials.

 
I saw most of these commercials during the HD broadcast of the Olympics. They are pretty damn amazing, although the YouTube versions don’t show off as much detail as I would have liked so I’m going to upload them elsewhere and provide links below. But if you want the quick YouTube option, here’s a link [...]

Blender Logic Bricks!

CartoonSmart just released an amazing new Blender lesson, instructed by John Nyquist as usual. If you’ve already been following his Blender Basics courses you’ve obviously seen how to create 3D models and animation, but this course teaches something totally new: Real-time 3D gaming with Blender. Sounds cool right? Well here’s the best part… it [...]

World War 2-Era…Web Site?

This site definitely wasn’t made 60-some years ago, but it sure looks it….
http://www.targetscope.com/

New Tutorial: Actionscript 3 Page Flip Gallery

 
Take two! This is the second version of a page flip gallery I’ve made for the site and one that I think is MUCH improved from its predecessor. I’ll address why in a second, but lets look at some of the features of this one….

XML based…. So you can specify the gallery’s image or swf [...]

Flash Exploit Served by Microsoft…

Just thought my students should read this…
Flash Exploit Served by Microsoft
Long story short, encourage people to upgrade to Flash 9. And if you do host Flash ads from other companies, screen them first.

Qwest Commercials with Sand Painting

I saw a couple of these Qwest sand painting commercials on CNN while I was eating at a Sushi restaurant. The volume was muted, but that didn’t minimize the coolness of the commercial ( which makes it even more impressive ). 
Also before you click the video below, keep in mind its not the actual Qwest commercial [...]

John K’s Blog: A “Real” Animator

 John Kricfalusi is a true old-school animator and illustrator (die hard fans of “Ren and Stimpy” know him as their creator and eventual casualty). His blog is basically an online text book of resources for budding animators, the paper-n-pencil kind, not the slide-a-Flash-keyframe kind (like myself). So we can learn much from him. Pay special attention to the [...]

From My Bookshelf…

I’ve posted a link to this book before at my non-wordpress blog but since that blog is now rotting in cyberspace, I thought it was worth posting again. I have a tendency to shelve-n-forget a lot of design books, but this isn’t one of them. I’m constantly going back to it for fresh ideas. Which [...]

FlashBooty 2 Preview

So my buddy’s freelance company, FlashBooty.com (original version of the site), is still busy making a grand  relaunch, but he’s shared another preview image with me, and I’ll pass it along to any one that wants a looksie. This will be the main entrance to the site, and the animated version of the image below [...]