I’ve finally gotten around to writing a short page about my ramen Player that I’ve blogged about over the past few months. At least the posts have a little context now.
DesignCharlotte.org
I found this blog a few weeks ago – designcharlotte.org. It’s a good way to showcase local design talent and connect people. And thank you Jak for adding a link to me!
AS Driven Tweens
Greensock has released TweenMax. Looks really sweet – I don’t do many bezier tweens, but having the ability to do that, filter and color tweens in one class is appealing. I’m going to try to integrate it in to Ramen so that I can use it for my rebooted Nudoru site.
Draw Logic has a good list of the availble animation packages. Matt Przybylski comments and links to an article on his blog on getting started with animation packages.
Die worms die
No matter how rosy and happy they make it sound, there’s just something about having an airplane circle your head (3 times!) while spraying pesticide, when you’re walking in to work, that tells you: today is going to be a wonderful day.
Redesign nudoru.com? – OK
I really need to redesign my personal site, it hasn’t been touched in almost 3 years. Wonder if I should forgo sleep this month and join the May 1st Reboot?
Update – In a moment of boredom/weakness during a recent project meeting, I signed up. Let’s see how creative I can be in 3 hours a day for 2 weeks.
My daughter is addicted to bubble gum techno pop
Not been posting lately – it’s been pretty hectic at work.
My wife has a mix cd in on rotation in her car’s cd player and my daughter has become completely addicted to one of random songs on it – Butterfly by the techno/dance pop group Smile.dk. I suppose toddlers do this kind of thing – and I’m really starting to appreciate the complexity of the song. I just gets in to you, you know?
I heard the song The Audience by Matthew Herbert recently, and like the beat. Link goes to a live version.
I’ve about had it with all of the music on my iPod – it’s time to start listening to my Pandora stations again.
Loading External Classes in AS3
A user on the FlashTiger list asked how to load classes dynamically at run time – this Adobe live doc covers it nicely. I’d thought of trying something like this before but was never clear on how to do it. Anyway, linked so that I’ll remember to look at it later :)
Grunge design is back! Yay.
It liiiives. According to Smashing Magazine. Fine by me – as a designer, organic dirty designs are much more fun to create than shiny rectangles with gradients. I got started in design the mid/late 90’s with a huge case of David Carson envy – designing grungy will be like coming home. So sentimental.
At least my old Typography in Decay site is tendy again. No updates needed!
Loading lots of assets in AS3
I’ve been using Hyrdotik’s Queue Loader in RAMEN to manage the loading of “theme” files for the interface. I’m not taxing it too much – just 7 files.
Bulk loader looks promising also – many more features, but it’s a lot bigger.
Forking Ramen
Been busy at work lately! I’ve got a tight deadline on a big project that involves a system demo with an avatar character.
I’ve been working in XML and dynamic Flash for so long with my inFlite system (more info soon) that I have a hard time thinking in terms of time line based animation. So, I’ve forked RAMEN and am creating a version for work. I’m getting the opportunity to add a few cool features (which probably won’t mean anything since I haven’t shared much about RAMEN here): timer based animation triggers, image distortion, targeting MC’s inside of a loaded SWF, shape objects, eventmanger objects, blah blah blah.
The hardest thing with be to get it to talk to Lectora so that I can make a cohesive template.