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Jolly jellyfish turning Away3D

Arno van Oordt — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:24:33 +0000

justGREAT how jolly my jellyfish look in 3D

After over a year of not listening to my nagging collegua (Away3D-team member Fabrice Closier) telling me to start working with (Away)3D, I caved…
I started to experiment a little in Away3D and turned my 2D jellyfish experiment into a 3D version. You can watch the result here: http://labs.justgreat.nl/exp080603.htm

I added a couple of tricks I learned way back when I created levels for Unreal Tournament.
For example I added a second viewport for the skybox (in this case a sphere), because the Away3D Skybox-class is in fact not a real skybox but just a really huge cube rendered in the same viewport as the rest of the scene.
The camera in my skybox viewport points in the same direction as the camera in the main viewport but always stays at point (0,0,0). This way the camera will never approach the side of the skybox, giving the illusion that everything in this viewport is really far away.

All-in-all a good start in Away3D if you ask me. I hope to do some real projects with 3D in the comming weeks…

micro dudes (13×13x13x13)

Arno van Oordt — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:49:54 +0000

Drawing 169 micro dudes pixel-by-pixel is just great fun! Here is the result:

13×13 dudes, 13×13 pixels each – pixel – fireworks | download

I’m not sure what to do with these pixel fellas, but printing them on posters, stickers and shirts might be a cool idea…

micro dudes (13x13x13)

Arno van Oordt — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:59:10 +0000

justGREAT how much fun you can have with just a few pixels.

Inspired by all the cool stuff I saw at the OFFF (Lisbon) last week I decided to do some experimental character design. The guys turned out quite nice if you ask me…

13 dudes, 13×13 pixels each – pixel – fireworks | download

Expect some more of this stuff soon…

Jolly jellyfish

Arno van Oordt — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:48:11 +0000

At the moment I’m trying to learn how to make timeline animations in Flash and yet somehow I end up animation which is 80% coded, isn’t that just great!?

Just fooling around I came up with this result:
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Jolly jellyfish - vector animation | download

The movement and generation of the jellyfish is all actionscript (2.0), the “squezing” is timeline-animation…

My first pixel scenes

Arno van Oordt — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:24:23 +0000

Did some pixel art again in a long time and the result turned out just great (if I say so myself). These are actually my first finished pixel scenes ever…

owl on branch – pixel – fireworks | download

fishtank – pixel – fireworks | download

(Click download for a better view)

Cartoon style experiments

Arno van Oordt — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:13:39 +0000

justGREAT! I was experimenting a little with new cartoon/vector styles in Flash and now here we are with some nice (widescreen) wallpapers for your ass:

air critters – vector – flash cs3 | download

HOOT… – vector – flash cs3 | download

critters – vector – flash cs3 | download

no name - vector – flash cs3 | download

face – vector – flash cs3 | download

Hope you like ‘em. Feel free to use and/or distribute…

Cartoon animations

Arno van Oordt — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:33:58 +0000

Just great how easy it is to make simple animations in Flash. Check out these cute fellas…

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cute frog cartoon – vector animation | download

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cute whale cartoon – vector animation | download

Each took me about 4 hours in total (sketch, vectorizing and animating).
I used a couple of animation techniques like the “growing flower mask” to animate the whale’s fountain and a little as2 to make the frog’s eyes follow the mouse. Furthermore some shape- and motion-tweens. Let me know what you think of them…