Papervision3D + Tweener + After FX = wowzers!

Excuse the silly title, I just wanted to grab your attention and proudly announce that my company's new website is finally finished, www.sandmanstudios.com! Sandman Studios is a full-service creative agency specializing in CG Animation, Visual Effects Production, and Interactive Multimedia.


We had a lot of big ideas of what we wanted to put into the new site and we have a lot more cool things in store, but for the time frame we had to work with, I think we did a great job on phase one of it. We used Papervision 3D on several project detail pages. For example, check out the Papervision 3D in this project called, "The Terrible Tooth". Also, I used Tweener extensively throughout the site. We used After FX in a lot of places, like in the Gorilla animation we did for the LA Zoo.

Not only did we create an amazing website, we also built a custom content management system in Flex to manage it. Which, I am now regretting because my boss wants us to create these for every site we do now. We used AMF PHP for the Flash to database communication. Which made it possible for us to get the CMS up and running in a few days. We also use SWFAddress for the deep linking.


It was nice to work on something for ourselves for once. Even though we were our own client, I think we all realize that even we don't know what we want until we see it.

Flash CS3

Flash CS3! AS3, animation tween-to-actionscript conversion, AS3 UI components, new video components, AI/PSD native import, new debugger, new drawing tools, and so much more! Can't wait to get my hands on this.

I've been so busy over the last 2 months at my new job, that I lose track of whats going on in the Flash world. Cahlan and I now work for different companies, but we both still have a great passion for the new and cool stuff going on with Flash. I'm now the lead interactive developer for Sandman Studios. (Pay no attention to the old website, we've got a cool new one in the works.) Sandman does alot of Hollywood special effects, games, interactive dvds/cd-roms, and of course websites. They have their hands in alot of mediums. Its exciting to see the potential this little company has.

Lately, I've been experimenting with PaperVision3D, a powerful AS2/AS3 3D engine. Here are a few examples of PaperVision:

Cell shading
Star Wars game
Material test
Material test 2
Panorama
Tons more

PaperVision is amazing, its lightweight, very powerful, and opens the door for so many design possibilities! I can't wait until something like this is built into Flash. I will post some of my tests later next week.

Anywho, thats all I got for now.