Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

Hey folks! I once posted a preview for the Virtual Museum I made on my own for TAM. But considering the amount of work i had with it, what I showed was really nothing. The fact is that this project had many steps, and I really could do better than just showing a video.
I mean, I had to model and shade each aircraft from scratch (on not a totally detailed, but still hi-poly level), then gather all of them on a single “showroom”, do some lightning magic, animate all the camera movement and 360 turnarounds, render it all,  convert and color correct them properly to Flash. Oh yes, I forgot to say: this was all meant to re-create a virtual representation of TAM’s real Aviation Museum on São Paulo’s stateside, hosted on tamkids.com.br.
The long process continued on Flash, where I designed, animated and co-programmed  the little(big)site that, well, while kida heavy, the client loves and it’s a nice package. Go figure. Anyway, enough with the talking, I’m here to show you some larger renders of the 3D work, and the screens of the final product, which you can visit here. Enjoy (and remember: you can click and enlarge the pictures) :] :


Here’s some of the aircrafts close-ups (click’em!):



A screenshot of Maya, so you can actually believe in this madness.

And last, but not least, some screen grabs of the site:



Ah to the hell with it, here’s the video I posted many months ago:

G’morning! I don’t know why I haven’t posted these clips yet, so here goes 3 TV Spots (for reals) for TAM Kids. All done in my usual combo Flash+Maya+After Effects.
First off, and nothing to do with the Museum, here’s the 30″ TV Spot about TAM Kids special campaign for october (the month of children as we know it).

This is the 30″ one for TV, now actually talking about the real TAM Aviation Museum and it’s location.

And last but not least, the 15″ insert for theaters, inviting the little kids on Cinemark to visit the Virtual Aviation Museum on tamkids.com.br

That’s all folks. Better late than never, right?

ABERJE 40 YEARS

May 31 2010

Nonsense header image is nonsense. Anyway, this post is meant to showcase what is becoming a relic these days: a fully flash website. In my defense, It wasn’t meant to feature on any mobile platforms, or be optimized for any search engine. It was all about a fixed target, and a loose informative feat. to get people to understand what the Association is. Oh, of course, Aberje is the Brazilian Association for Enterprises Communications, in simple words, an Institution to all things Endomkt and Internal (HR) Management. They failed to make their own associates aware of their benefits, so in the verge of their 40 years anniversary they asked for this site.

In the end, since the identity of the campaign had a strong “Bauhaus” esque (as you see above), the smoothly animated transitions provided by Flash were quite welcome.
Better than hear about it, see it in motion.

Here are shots from the homepage, and some internal ones:

This last one is straight from the Statement’s page, for which I did some editing as post-effects. Worth seeing it, I guess.
That’s it for now. More silly sites on the way…

From the “posting very old stuff, worthy stuff” series, this one was an underrated (by the business people) case that ended being a sucessful blast. But that’s not why I hold this project so dear. Yeah, it got an international award too (DMA Echo Leader Awards, if you mind), but what matters to me is only this: It was hella fun to do.
There wasn’t too much attention around it, simply because it started as the Mission Impossible itself: Introduce the world known Akamai’s web hosting and optmizing services to the unaware brazilian customer, while using a damn old Santa Claus gift plush Exceda (Akamai representant) had left and wanted to get rid of. It was barely close to Xmas, and even with a low budget, I decided to push this forward with a really straightforward flash game, built entirely upon the concept of  “Understand how Santa manages to attend to so many sites at the same time without crashing”. A stupid analogy that turned out as the perfect excuse for a casual, addicting flash game.
I made the hotsite (not such a hotsite, it’s still up) around this game  (same for the rest of the campaign), and bingo, we had a winner. From nothing.

Above you see the front page of the case, which we called “Xmas Ops” or “Santa’s Ops”. But you can see it in motion here (at least it is on air by the day of this post).

But there is more… :] The “fun to do” factor mentioned above is mainly due to the polish and care given to this little Flash Game.
I took my time (not a fairly amount of it, though) to model the Santa Claus in Maya, exactly like their silly little doll, and made all the cutscenes and in game animations there. So it’s like the new retro gaming trend: old school ‘arcady’ side-scroller but fully 3D rendered. I made a quick montage of these cutscenes:

But these ain’t nothing without the gameplay, which was crafted to AWESOME!
That’s why I insist: you must play it!
The guys at AnimaGames surely know their game, and made quite an effort with the ActionScript on this one. I assisted on programming it a bit, but I was mainly the art and creativity director, a damn proud one.
How could I not be? I still have a blast when I play it, never gets old!

AON – CLIENT WORLD

Apr 23 2010

This one is old, but almost nobody have seen it, so here it goes.
An opening vignette (and Visual ID) for AON Client World convention’s press release.
It’s nice that I came up with this logo too and everything tied together nicely. I had fun doing this 3D work on AE (with a little help of my friend, Adobe Flash CS3).

Hope you rike it! (Kojima San style)