I helped my classmate and friend Keith Beltramini design and develop a website to display his 3D, Motion Graphics, and Animation work. His work is outstanding, so be sure to check him out!

After not having a new site in over a year, I finally got the time to finish up my new site - Jefflindesign Version 6 is now up and running! There’s also a new demo reel on there that I haven’t posted before, so make sure you check it out too!

Keith Beltramini, Matt Robinson, and I joined forces for Virtual Entertainment class to work on this project together. Originally we were going to tie in Flash Media Server on this project and make a multiplayer game, but as I was the only developer on the team ( Keith made some awesome in-game graphics and animation and Matt designed a great user interface), developing the game and learning Flash Media Server at the same time proved to be a difficult task to accomplish within the 5-6 or so weeks that we were alotted to this project. Thus we were forced to simplify our project a little, and this is our product - a mini flash game that allows users to login, play, and save their best times. There’s a few things that need to be tweaked, but overall I’d say the project was a success; it’s a playable game and encourages return visits for users that are competitive (most gamers would be!). Check out Breakout!

I was looking for a shoutcast channel in my winamp shoutcast browser and I spotted a sunsilk banner, and out of curiousity, I clicked on it to see where it would take me. Lo and behold, it took me to Sunsilk.us and on it was the site that I helped Rokkan work on! Rokkan picked me up in late December and had me develop the shell as well as the front page; and I worked on it until sometime towards the end of January. The most time consuming part of it all was exporting all the graphical assets out of photoshop and into flash, especially because this site was so image heavy. It’s pretty cool to see stuff that I’ve worked on up on the net, and it’s always a pleasure working with the folks at Rokkan!

This was my first project done in AS3, I’ve been putting off doing a project in AS3 because I wanted to wait and practice the AS2 OOP skills I developed at Rokkan over the summer. It was well worth the wait. It was a pretty smooth transition for the most part(and with the migration documentation)! The only things that drove me crazy were the syntax changes, small things such as the removal of the underscore from, say movieclip._x (it’s now just movieclip.x in AS3).

Anyway, about the project! When clicking on the project, it will create a movieclip that changes scale and color based on the audio input (be it from mic or the output of your sound card), and when clicked again, the movieclip is frozen and placed on the stage. Repeat the process until a desirable design is created, then right click > print to pdf or printer. If you print it to pdf, the shapes are still retained and you can open the pdf from illustrator to tinker with positioning and colors or add post generation effects.

The Digital Initiatives Modules I worked on over the summer at ROKKAN are finally up on Time Warner’s website, check it out!

In Jason Arena’s Virtual Entertainment lab I experimented with the Flash Drawing API, and we did it in AS3! Here’s the outcome: clickclick to change color, move your mouse to generate the curves

Also, I wanted to know how to draw a curved line that got wider so Jason helped me out, and we came up with this (yeah so we added some code for random color, so it can be updated later on with, perhaps, a color fade) : wave.swf ( linked externally because the wave keeps going and really starts chugging your browser if you leave it open)

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I was using easy inline swf but for some reason an error kept being returned, so I’ve switched to WP-SWFObject

I was having troubles with scope issues last night so I didn’t get much done. Now that I figured out the problem it should be pretty smooth sailing from here.. I need to populate the database with lyrics, so if you’d like to help, post your favorite lines of a song here: lyrics visualizer beta

that’s all for now..