For the Stink Digital season’s greetings card we thought, as you do after a good few beers at Electricity Showrooms, that it might be cool to do some kind of snowball fight where you could record your throw and launch it at your unsuspecting friends via Twitter or Facebook. A month later we’d wrapped a bunch of really intense projects and had a clear couple of weeks to design, architect and build the thing. It was especially fun working with the excellent Red5 open source Flash media server which I’ll definitely be playing with some more in the new year. Here’s the result: http://holidays.stinkdigital.tv.
Posted By }i{ on December 15, 2009
I’ve been playing with augmented reality in Flash, aided by Saqoosha’s excellent FLARToolkit and Papervision 3D. Here at Stink Digital we decided to develop these experiments to do something fun for an ad in Contagious Magazine.
At first we planned to make a virtual Cannes Lion, along with some fireworks to fit in with the advertising festival which coincides with the issue. After having some problems getting the 3D model to work how we wanted and, moreover, deciding this idea was perhaps a bit too gimmicky I started playing with showing trending Tweets as 3D text. This worked quite well, but we then took it a step further to pull a live feed of all kinds of trending topics from various sources, including Flickr images. The result was a ‘What the internet is thinking’ app where every time you show the marker you get a new ‘thought’.
See it here:
http://www.stinkdigital.tv/makeitreal
Posted By }i{ on July 28, 2009