Archive for March, 2005

[Video] Create your own Old Spice commercial

March 25th, 2005

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Wow! This is a really cool app. You can drag and drop different video, audio and scratch clips to the timeline to create your own version of this provocative commercial for Old Spice men’s deoderant.

http://www.whensheshot.com/

By the way, if anyone knows who built this please let me know. I’d love to talk with the developers.

mdowney –at– macromedia.com

Nectarine produces 4-min animated short with Flash, Motion, and FCPro

March 20th, 2005

[via Daemonite]

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Talented design shop and animation studio, Nectarine, is at it again (see MXDU keynote openers) with this new animated short that they have produced for network television.

From their website:

Real World is a 4 minute animation created by Nectarine for Film Victoria’s “Four Minute Wonders” program. It’s our visual response to the song ‘Little Town’ by Amalia Fitzgerald.

Real World uses Apple’s recently released Motion software to bring together plasticene models, Flash-generated 2D animation, and 3D objects.The editing was done with Final Cut Pro, and output at 1024 x 576 for digital hi-res broadcasting.

More here: http://www.nectarine.com.au/virtualstudios/realworld/

IBM ForwardView portal

March 13th, 2005

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Wow – I’m finding all sorts of cool Flash content throughout IBM’s site. Here’s another interesting site that is laid out as a monthly newsletter. It utilizes Flash and Flash video in a very effective way.

Note that you must sign up for their free email newsletter in order to view most of the content.
http://forwardview.showmail.tv

IBM On Demand Business Success Stories

March 13th, 2005

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I was just researching corporate “Our vision of the future” sites and came across this nicely done portal for IBM’s “On Demand Business” campaign. If you dig around the site you’ll find all sorts of cool uses of Flash – including effective use of Flash video.

Explore the foundations of On Demand Business. Learn how to start, sustain and fine-tune your company’s ongoing evolution.

View the site here.

[Flash video] Showtime’s screening room

March 9th, 2005

This is another cool Flash video site.

http://sho.com/video