I really enjoyed working on this with a tight team including fellow dev, the awesome Phil Bulley. It was a big challenge, especially in terms of optimisation as the technique required to swap the videos perfectly was so expensive (basically sneakily achieved by baking several videos into one large canvas and scrollRecting it). Anyway through sheer determination and hard work we got there in the end. Unusually I also did some of the sound design on this project as well as the coding, selecting what to use and where from a library of loops.
I think the film is really beautiful. It was directed by Stinkdigital’s Marco Brambilla, who also did the ‘Power’ video for Kanye West.
www.youtube.com/hugobosstv
FWA SOTD November 16 2011
Posted By }i{ on August 13, 2011
This is an interactive film trailer for the BBC’s One Life film. Users can drag up at any time during the trailer to get additional content related to the shot currently on screen. Dragging down accesses global content such as audience reactions and interviews.
www.one-life.com
FWA SOTD September 12 2011
Commarts Webpick of the Week
The UI is enriched by sampling the colours from the video. I used BitmapData.merge to gradually step through the colour changes, creating a smooth, fluid effect. Here’s the code:
private var _multiplier:uint = 32;
public function set videoFrame(bitmapData: BitmapData): void { bitmapData.lock();
bitmapData.applyFilter(bitmapData, _rect, _point, _colorMatrixFilter); // saturation and contrast
bitmapData.applyFilter(bitmapData, _rect, _point, _blurFilter);
_bitmapData.merge(bitmapData, _rect, _point, _multiplier, _multiplier, _multiplier, 0);
bitmapData.unlock();
}
Posted By }i{ on July 29, 2011
This was an exciting and challenging project. I was lead developer and was also heavily involved in the creative and technical planning.
To bring the island to life we made a mock Streetview interface using Away3d and integrated the site very tightly with Facebook to allow users to become citizens. Connected users could find a home, contribute laws, create national holidays, write a line of the national anthem, gain social status and even become the president for a day, taking over Diesel’s Twitter account.
For musical accompaniment we made a ‘pirate radio’ that plays, as if by magic, (almost) anything you request. I did this by sneakily connecting to the YouTube API, searching the music category and playing back the audio without showing the video. This came from an earlier experiment of mine and it was great to get it used in a project.
Archived version of site
Case study video on Vimeo
Awards:
FWA SOTD April 27 2011
Bronze Cannes Cyber Lions
Posted By }i{ on March 30, 2011
