Amazing hair render / animator entirely in flash. Not real-time but still very awesome!

Utilizing the theory of electrostatics, these fellas have designed a low-cost human-computer interface device that  tracks the position of a user’s hand in three dimensions. To control the device, the user simply waves their hand above it in the air.  Whatever, lets see it….

16th of April is a great day for a 26000 Vodka while browsing The FWA website awards… have a sip.

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Excerpt from the article…

Interactive user experiences are all about capturing a fantasy or reality in the most convincing way. The challenge is often working out how to get the visitor so deep into the site that they lose any inhibitions. This site, created for jeans company JAG, throws you into the magazine and photography world and gives you the chance to create your own magazine with pictures that you take with a virtual camera. “The brief was to offer the user a fun and realistic fashion photo shoot experience, putting them in the photographer’s shoes and letting them choose the shots and layout,” explains Resn’s producer, Rik Campbell.

The site’s digital SLR, which you use to capture the stills, is central to the whole experience and was a real technical feat for Resn; the immediate responsiveness of the click and capture is a crucial aspect of the photography experience. “An initial working prototype enabled us to refine the speed of the real-time capture of screen shots from the Flash video, enabling us to create the feeling that the user is indeed taking the photo,” says Campbell. “The next challenge was to sync these lower res screen shots Flash-side with the server-side high res frames that would be used in the magazine and for the desktop download.”

It was necessary to create two versions of the model videos to achieve this, as well as using selective loading to pull down only those images the user needed. “Perhaps the greatest challenge was using Papervision 3D to deliver the customised magazine in a 3D viewer, which required a mix of ActionScript 2 and 3,” reveals Campbell.

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Very, very sexy time on the web. Blending old with new in a sophisticated delivery that gets the creative mouth salivating. Dogs wagging tails, subtle water colour textures, smoke billowing… its all there in this Japanese online eutopia. You don’t need to be able to read Japanese to enjoy the best of this artfully applied  3D environment.

www.ohzan.com

“Using a webcam and flash, we’ve taken our Papervision character from the desktop to the desk. A new and exciting way to interact with your flash content. The possibilities are wide open.”

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Fancy Flash 3D photo manipulation tool.  This takes our Luke Buda concept to new levels.  Developed at Oddcast this tool can do some pretty fantastically ugly things.  Upload your own face in 3D and insert your own talking message.  NOKIA recently launched an FWA winning site based on this.  Check them both out.

Oddcast PhotoFace
NOKIA – Music Almighty

Ever heard of LIDAR and Geometric Informatics System… a behind the scenes making of the “how did they do that?” music video from Radiohead. A music video made without the use of film cameras. Visual genius!

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The animation studio the brought to life the characters in GTA have been working on simulating a believable cg character and have done a very nice job so far.
Check out the video and article here