AS3

Back to school

July 27, 2007 admin Leave a comment

As you can see, I’ve started a blog. I’ve also officially made the leap to ActionScript 3.0 for all my production. Some things I have noticed:

Your memory management needs to be fastidious to avoid memory leaks and weird behaviour (more on this later)
It feels more like a real programming language at last
It runs A LOT faster. Tell a client this, if they’ve got you maintaining some AS2 dead horse

I’ll be posting stuff I learn about AS3 that you should know as I go… so stay tuned.

Flash

Wave your hands in the air

July 26, 2007 admin Leave a comment

The London Flash Platform Users Group is running a meetup tonight about (among other things) connecting and controlling Flash with the Nintendo Wii controller, using WiiFlash. For those that can’t make it down to the Cosmo Bar in Barbican, they are apparently broadcasting the event here.

…see you there!

Animation, Flash, Videos, Work

Vodafone ‘Mayfly’ website

June 2, 2006 admin Leave a comment

How do you make the most of now?

I created this microsite for Dare Digital back in 2005, to promote a competition running alongside BBH‘s Vodafone ‘Mayfly’ TV campaign. Users can create a mayfly with a personal message attached, which lives for just 24 hours and wanders around the environment. The best life-affirming message won a drive around Monza with Michael Schumacher in his Ferrari – the power of NOW!The client was very happy with the site – it picked up a couple of awards, even an award for my little preloader animation. You can see the site here, but note that you can’t create your own mayflies any more and the competition is long since over.