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UNITY 2008

Max The Rocket — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:23:10 +0000

This is the website for an annual 4D Events party at the Guvernment. This year I wanted to give the site a look and feel of love, happiness, and a little hippie. I used a lot of circular shapes, smooth curves and an explosion of vibrant colors. Doesn’t this website make you happy when you look at it? Doesn’t it scream Unity? Well it should.

I used Papervision 3D for the Unity logo at the top, it moves with your mouse . I thought the video on the background is a good way to show what the party is all about, which worked out well. Since the site if full page flash it was a quite challenge to figure out how to move all the elements on stage when the window gets resized, not to mention resizing the video. But I love challenges.

Flickr Soundtrack featuring YouTube

Max The Rocket — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:56:48 +0000

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This is application that displays random, most interesting photos from Flickr. For each photo the application searches for a YouTube video that matches the photo’s tags and plays the sound from the YouTube video. Basically the application created a soundtrack for a photo being viewed.

I had to create a database of suitable photo tags for searching videos on YouTube. Most tags in Flickr photos are specific to photographs only like color, camera models and photography techniques. I had to hand-pick the tags that would be appropriate for YouTube video tags.

I created this app as a project for my application to Ryerson University. The interface is kinda weak, I was tight on time when I made it. I am planning on creating a cooler interface for this. Maybe something with 3d, a sound spectrum and an option to view the actual video that the sound is taken from.

TSN Broadcast Museum

Max The Rocket — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:39:32 +0000

This is an interactive TSN Broadcast Museum exhibit for the Hockey Hall of Fame. The exhibit is on the history of TSN’s hockey broadcasting. The project combines video, audio and images in a 3D interface. I used Papervision3D for the 3D interface and coded everything in Actionscript 3. The exhibit is controller by gesture recondition. I didn’t have to implement the gesture recondition technology myself, it was already in place. i just had to work with basic mouse events. But the gesture recodnition system is just awesome.

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Wetbar Fridays

Max The Rocket — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:34:32 +0000

A promo flash page for a rooftop patio club downtown Toronto. I wanted to create an atmosphere of the patio at night through this flash site. I made a starry night sky with clouds floating around as the background for the site. There’s a guestlist form right on the page that uses flash remoting to add people to the guestlist. have a look:

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Blackout 2007

Max The Rocket — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:32:55 +0000

A web site for an annual party at the Guvernment. The website was done in flash, AS2. It consists of “Blobs” that randomly morph and float around the screen, they pretty much have a life of their own. Each “Blob” represents a menu item. By clicking on a menu item a “Blob” expands to show the content. Give it a try.

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Burn The Books 08

Max The Rocket — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:28:17 +0000

A website for an end-of-school party at The Guvernment. I had to program an animated flame in flash that used only one graphic to create a dynamic flame effect.

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Revolution 2009

Max The Rocket — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:46:39 +0000

Another web site for 4D Events‘ annual all ages party at The Guvernment. The most challenging part of this website was to create a 3D ball, with reflections, rendered live inside flash.

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I had to fake the ball reflections by making a enviromental map with the reflection and moving the dummy light used for the enviromental map. I did the background of the website in 3Ds Max, I got the idea from Eagle Eye movie, the room where the main computer was:

Ontario Craft Brewers – Caps Game

Max The Rocket — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:10:26 +0000

A flash based game created for the Ontario Craft Brewers. The game play consists of flicking 30 different beer caps into a beer glass. Each beer cap represents a different brewery, which is a part of the Ontario Craft Brewers association. Have fun!

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I coded the whole game in AS3. I used Papervision3D for the spinning beer caps, just for the spinning animation. I had to make my own “3d engine” for sizing down the beer caps when they “fly away” from you. I used Remoting to take care of the Leaderboard.

Shake it like a polaroid picture

Max The Rocket — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:04:11 +0000

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This is a card I designed for STATUS Toronto. This card is given out at clubs by a photographer to people he/she takes a picture of. The card looks like a polaroid. The front of the card has a message “Shake it like a polaroid picture or visit www.statustoronto.com”. I’ve watches people’s reactions when they receive the card and everyone (well like 99%), even myself (at times when I’ve been drinking), start shaking this card. It’s interesting that people’s natural reaction to receiving a polaroid is to shake it if there’s nothing on it. This card quickly became a trademark of STATUS Toronto and drasticly increased hits to the website.

Flyer Designs for Status Toronto

Max The Rocket — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:15:00 +0000

A bunch of flyer designs I did for STATUS Toronto.