Rich Media

FOTB: Dr Woohoo

Joakim — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:37:41 +0000

Really good session if you are into the more creative side of CS4. Think creating art and you are well on your way. Unfortunately I can’t see how I can use this in my workflow. Still interesting though.

Flash On The Beach: carlos ulloa

Joakim — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:05:58 +0000

Currently watching Carlos dissecting his current project. Inspirational 3D stuff. More in detail later

CRD Summit 2008: Oslo

Joakim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:20:18 +0000

Every year the CRD (creative research and development) team at AKQA goes on a summit. 2 years ago it was in Sweden, last year it was on a boat off englands coast and this year it’s in Oslo.

I feel very optimistic about this trip because we have had a lot of discussions about our team in the past couple of weeks. If just 10% of the things we want to do come true it will still have a big impact.

I’ll be back on Sunday for a good nights sleep before heading down to Brighton on Monday

// Joakim

Crappy Cat

Joakim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:10:32 +0000

OMG this site is brilliant. Aestetically pleasing and fun. Not really a game…more like a strange cartoon. The site is currently featured on theFWA and its refreshing to see a site up there that is more about animation / illustration than the average campaign site / corporate site. Well Done.

Programming: zincroe
Artwork: Vanbeater

Flash On The Beach

Joakim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:36:58 +0000

The company I work for (AKQA) managed to cough up a couple of conference tickets for this years FOTB in Brighton. Since our team has grown so big, we are just below the 20, not everybody can expect to go. I guess I was lucky this time so on monday i will make my way down to Brighton.

Last time I went to a flash conference I was working for Framfab. It was 2005 and the conference was Flash Forward in New York. All in all that was a great trip and a great conference. I got my first “wow what a community” kinda feeling when I realized that there are so many developers out there who do the same thing as me (although much better…at the time).

I don’t remember all the sessions I saw or all the presenters but I do remember a fair bit. I also remember two London developers coming in too late for a panel discussion because they had been out partying the night before…was it Tink?

This year I will try and catch the sessions by Carlos Ulloa, Mike Jones, Mark Anders, Tink and Erik Natzke. These are all sessions on Monday which is the only day I will be attending unfortunately. There was an internal battle in our team where everyone wanted to do the wednesday sessions.

Hopefully I can blog live from the conference but I would have to borrow a laptop from work to do that. Stay tuned

For more on the sessions visit FOTB SESSIONS

Spider 3D - Tomas Eriksson

Joakim — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:57:57 +0000

You gotta check this spider out. A bit of 3D, IK and Flash and this is what you get. You cant really do much but as a proof of concept this is very well executed. Well done Tomas

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/