We delivered a simple to maintain rich internet site that lets the Urban Chilli furniture stand out.

Site features include:

• Customisable call-to-action ticker
• Fully customisable product showcase
• VIP enquiry forms
• Printable product details

The system integrates with their Excel spreadsheets containing all of their product details.

We made extensive use of Flex and Flash to deliver this site on a very tight deadline and budget.

Check out the site here.

Troy wanted an simple, effective, and consistent method to communicate feature commercial interior design projects. We came up with the Trojan Horse project sheets.

They send us images and quotes for the sheets; we send back completed artwork.

When bundled up and presented in a Trojan Horse folder, they showcase the brilliant work that Troy and his team deliver project after project.

Check out his site here. And don’t forget to say “hi” from Tim and Paul!

Their TV spots had an eclectic mix of styles including:

• 3D
• Real textures
• Clip animation of live actors
• And cartoon shaders

The final 4 illustrations were delivered at 4000 x 2250 pixels.

Using Flash and creating a video of the full rotation of an object, we can create a full 360×180 degree object rotator.

An additional feature lets us click on the image to download a high quality JPG of the current frame. The site visitor can easily rotate the object in a Flash file that is relatively small, and still get to see top quality images when they request them.

Here’s a couple of demos at low and medium quality:

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These demos are built using computer generated rings with diamonds (they are not photos), but they could just as easily be captured by any quality photographer with the right camera rig. (We did a similar thing with the WA Museum.)

To do this for a jewellers, we would add this link to a product page so that site visitors could see the sexyness of the jewellery.

To make people comfortable about their online purchase, this could be direct marketed by sending out ring size templates with the site URL. Visitors would be confident that their rings would fit when they get them.

Want more info? We have a tutorial that covers some of these ideas here (it’s the Object VR one at the bottom of the page). Or you can contact us now!

This (fairly graphic) graphic novella tells the story of a graffiti artist tagging a train. The quiet electric train catches him unaware and our protagonist meets a messy end.

We were given the rough panel layout and a style (shown in the thumb to the right) and a few versions later we had the completed art. Our other ink styles are available here.

The final piece was a digital illustration at 3556×6500 pixels.

In the gallery below, you will see the stages that this piece went through: from our rough to the final piece. It’s sort of a case study, mainly a quick show-and-tell of how we did it!

We started from the old 57 page Powerpoint file and quickly understood that the majority of slides were photos of applications or features of the pipe fitting system. Getting across the versatility of the system was critical.

All Tuff had hundreds of photos that could be presented: we narrowed the list down to the 180 best and presented them in a gallery that had cool mouse-over spring zoom effects. Each image also had a short description that was displayed when the image expanded for better viewing.

Clicking on the thumbnail image showed a full size image that also had 5 key selling points with the most important key points for the image highlighted. These big images can be quickly scrolled through, reinforcing the key points each time and also presenting a new caption heading.

It was a huge task, but Jim Fawkes, All Tuff manager, took it all in his stride, creating the dataset for the 180 images. This took care of the majority of the old presentation.

We took the actual information out of the Powerpoint and created a set of 11 slides that was quick, informative and good value to read.

The final CD also included a Technical Manual in PDF format and the CD label had screen grabs from the gallery.

The whole thing is XML driven, so the All Tuff guys can tweak the presentation, order of images, text, and add or remove images without having to come back to us!

These are some screen grabs from video and photo tests. Read out previous post here.

This time, we were looking at various ways to model, rig, and texture our demon. Also of interest was cloth and physics simulations (for the clothing) and hair utilities.

Always a bit of a classic when it’s beer o’clock.

Check out the game here.

We’ll also be adding more games to the sharing section of our site, so check back occasionally or get the RSS.

This collection is mainly for designers that are using Flash and need to load or preload their content for site visitors. It is also good for building multimedia course lectures around, great for students looking for the answers, and perfect for museums and galleries looking to create online exhibitions.

We’ve currently presented demos and full source files for each project. If there is enough interest, we’ll also publish a detailed set of tutorials to support each resource (that’s 25 tutorials).

All code is given from a designer’s point of view. No geeky solutions, just stuff that works. Our Flash designers like them (and they’re finicky little buggers)!

Note that these are AS2 (ActionScript 2.0) solutions - not AS3 solutions. This is because when you move to AS3, you lose all the really quick and easy ways to make Flash do stuff (like putting on events on buttons and onClipEvents on movie clips). AS3 makes you build classes for everything and has a somewhat complicated way of handling events.

Before all you coders out there get angry, I love AS3 and especially Flex Builder 3. It makes coding in AS3 a complete doddle (ie really easy). And I’m sure that when Thermo gets released, all the designers will love AS3 too. But until then, we’re sticking with AS2 for the run-of-the-mill, fast-as-you-please Flash development.

Anyhooo… check out the demos, download what you want, ask questions and we’ll see how things go!

We have created a set of avatars cropped from our gallery of illustrations. These are not your common type of avatar - so if you’re looking for something a little different, try these.

Go to the avatar page now!