This was out awhile back but then went down so I waited to blog it. My kids love drawing a character and watching it dance. Excellent Flash work and lots of fun. Your Character gets converted into a 2D model in a 3D world.
You know those censor areas they sometimes lay over the screen when naked people show up on the news or something? Well, I thought it would be neat to attempt the effect using Flash 8. So here is my quick stab at what I call the “TV Blocks” class. You can change the blur settings on the Flash below.
**Note this blog page may have some other examples running depending on how you are looking at it – to view this example in a page alone click here.
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ILM has a really well put together Flash site which details some of the technical effects and processes behind the making of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 – Dead Man’s Chest. I especially enjoyed the video clips which used the old circle reveal trick to show the motion capture video behind the final shot. Some nice liberties were taken with the user interface in general as well. Thought I would share the find.
As a PittMFUG manager I always try to push the Pittsburgh Flash Users Group (PittMFUG) any chance I get so… I thought I would roll that into my discovery of the sweet Podcaster application on Tivo.
Recently I got off my butt and got the Tivo Wireless Adapter for my wireless network at home. This opens new options and programs on my Tivo. One that I thought was awesome is Podcaster. You can launch Podcaster on your Tivo, type in the PittMFUG podcast url (http://www.pittmfug.org/podcast/podcast.xml) and Bob’s your uncle. Listen to Myself, Wayne and Joe in all the 4:3 glory… Below are a couple of screenies. It even pulls the album art!
Obviously you can listen to any podcast this way – but why listen to anything else?
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