Month: April 2007

Flash experiments: select

Post author By Matthijs Kamstra
Post date April 25, 2007

Update: Before I could publish this post, before I finished this experiment, I found a better class to do what I want. TransformManager Released – Scale/Rotate/Move any MovieClip from Jack Doyle (Greensock). This class is what I had in mind when I started…. and much, much more… I’m using this class in the future.

Another experiment: I needed a possibility to select and manipulate a graphic in Flash.
So I looked at illustrator and Flash how they did it, and made a variation of my own.

So for now, I can select the top graphic, move and rotate it (not yet resize…)

Check it here:

[swf]http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/laboratory/swf_experiments/select_v01.swf, 450, 450[/swf]

Or check it the select experiment full screen..

Tags AS2, Experiments, Flash

Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Crossville

Post author By Matthijs Kamstra
Post date April 18, 2007

Update #1: Mister Illectronics himself pointed out that there is a project-dedicated ‘MySpace’ site: www.myspace.com/illectronics. Check it out.
MySpace seems to be the place to hang, check out the friends section: it loaded with cool illustrators, graffity artist, customizers, etc!
It’s the place where I found Phil. So if you find some other urban papercraft artists, just send me an email

By accident I stumbled into the work of Illectronics. I was looking for some cool papercraft and found this image:

a Shin Tanaka custom of El Carmesi, which I’ve seen before but always assumed it was a vinyl custom…

It’s not! This is a personal project called crossville which is set out into the paperworld to conquer all!

There are two very interesting models to be made:

You can visit Illectronics, goto work and the goto misc and see the models (and some customs).

If you want to create a custom, you need to send a mail to Sharim Gubbels (I could link directly to his email adress but for that you need to go to his site) which email address can be found here with a small explanation.

And you can see some images here in a little gallery I made:
Crossville project by Illectronics (customs and some other models).

Tags Papercraft, Urban papercraft

Flash Flash experiments

Flash experiments: tools

Post author By Matthijs Kamstra
Post date April 11, 2007

I decided to “share” my unstructured flash experiments:

And in this case it’s a flash application that creates flat, printable versions of cubes. Just print it, cut it out, glue it together and there you have it: the amazing cube:

[Your user agent does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you may visit <a href="http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/laboratory/swf_experiments/tools.swf" class="broken_link">the related document.</a>]<br />

Or just check tools menu full screen..

Based upon xml: toolsmenu.xml

Tags AS2, Experiments, Flash

Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: We hate glue

Post author By Matthijs Kamstra
Post date April 7, 2007

Update (16 April 2007): since my last visit, there been some new additions to the gallery

We hate glue… the people of Marrsbar have started a papercraft competition: and as the title says, no glue required.

And the price?? 250 euros!
What to do: customize a paper arcade machine.
But you have to design fast, the deadline is 30th of April (2007).
We Hate Glue Competition

Just download the blank template (PDF)
Place your grafics
and send it back (“more” detailed information here)

No feeling inspired? Want to see some examples, to check out the competition visit the we hate glue gallery
or view the gallery here

So stop reading, start earning money and create!

We Hate Glue - Logo

Tags Papercraft, Urban papercraft

Animation

The Big Brother State

Animation: bigbrotherstate by David Scharf

Story:
The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom but what we refer to as repressive legislation.

Since terrorism has become a global threat, especially after 9/11, governments all over the world have started enforcing laws which, so the governments say, should increase national security.

These laws obviously aim at another goal: the states gaining more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and freedom.