DMA455 - Flash and the Creative Industry (Week 3)

In this article written by Nick Bilyk, a software developer who's been working in the industry for 15 years, discusses what he thinks about the whole "flash is dead" idea thats been on everyone's mind.

Source: http://www.nbilyk.com/blog/1/80/flash-dead

Re-branding - Week 2

Oliver Jewellery is in need of a re-branding, here is an idea of a new logo concept for the jewelers.

Check out the "Cash-man" himself in action here.

DMA455 - Flash and the Creative Industry (Week 1)

With word of html5 soon becoming the new replacement for flash, we're all left to wonder, whats going to happen to flash?  Flash has been around for a long time, and because of its capabilities and the kind of work that can be produced with it, its still widely used today.  (Take a look at the picture on the left.)  Flash is still the most widely used platform to produce work such as games, applications, and websites.  It's supported by almost every platform (except for IOS) but its possible with some tweaking.  Html5 could possibly be better than flash, but with its limited support, and underdevelopment, we've yet to see its true potential, whereas Flash has already been creating to his potential, and is supported by almost all platforms.  There's no saying that one is far more superior than the other, because we've yet to see a great support base and use for html5, so until then, Flash won't be going anywhere.

Flash Animation

For this flash assignment, I decided to make Hulk running through the streets.  To start everything off, I first started making each frame of the hulk moving in Illustrator.

When I completed the 10 frames of Hulk, I exported the file, and began doing the flash portion.  It took me a while to finally make all the frames of Hulk, I had to go back and fix certain body parts because they looked a little off.  Once Hulk was officially done, I made the shadow frames to accompany him while he's running.

When I started flash, my biggest concern was being able to properly loop certain aspects, and if I would be able to make things look smooth, but luckily I got some feedback from classmates to fix some things.

To make the flash scene look right, I decided to put some cars(Cadillac's) passing by to help make it look more like the Hulk was running through the streets, also accompanied by a looping brick wall, sidewalk, and some parking meters.

CLICK HERE to view the animation.

3D Scenes

 Making 3d objects in Adobe illustrator and mapping symbols onto them.

Skatedeck: The Takeover

Finally completed my official "The Takeover" skate deck.  The print didn't quite scale properly to fit exactly on the deck, but overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Full Throttle Poster Advertisement

This poster was a group collaboration I did with some classmates.  We were to make a new poster for a Coca-Cola product, and we chose to do Full Throttle energy drink.  

Credits for this poster goes to Arber Spaho, Laura Pinto, Henry Jubril, and Myself.