2004
Flash 6 goodness
Take Flash 6, TextField.getFontList(), HTML text support, a list component and a textfield: you have the STC fontBrowser. A few thousand users later we have a hit. It helped STC’s site rank higher and generated a buzz around the agency’s interactive production. Pretty nice considering that it was a very simple tool to develop.
Click here to use the original STC fontBrowser.
An updated version of the fontBrowser in AS2 and with a new GUI.
Following the success of the fontBrowser I developed the STC Timetracker an online tool to keep track time spent on tasks. Although a lesser success I still get emails from people using it today.
2003
Detail of the 3D illustration
This render was used to illustrate the 2003-2004 holiday card for Great Spirits. Modeled and rendered in Lightwave. The reflections and “fast” Fresnel took for ever to render on my work computer, at the time an AMD equivalent to a Pentium 2.
Holiday Card Illustration
2003
Flying cow render
Originally created for Great Spirits (now Castle Brands). This exploration was to be used to support the launch of a new Irish Cream drink. Can’t remember how we (STC’s brains) arrived at the flying cow idea, but I executed on it and did a quick model and renders in Lightwave. Although the idea didn’t “fly” with the client, I kept the flying cow as a visual element of wemakedotcoms. The original cow had green patches.
Original Cow
2003
Inside Ilo
Ilo was my very first freelance flash project. A full site done in flash version 5 back in 2002-2003. I remember the drop down behavior was a struggle and I also spent extra time on getting the scroll bar to animate. I have noticed that the click behavior on the buttons of the scrollbars have stopped working (might be a backward compatibility issue.)
Click here to view the archived site
