Re: FLASH: Organic Flash

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

Hi Plato,


I loved the first URL (tothepoint). It's telling that even without knowing 

the language I was able to find my way around intuitively. As far as 

organic-feeling Flash, I'm a great admirer of Hillman Curtis 

(http://www.hillmancurtis.com) for his very efficient and beautiful use of 

bitmaps and motion within Flash. More ad-oriented than navigation-oriented, 

but if you haven't seen it you should explore his portfolio. BTW, Hillman 

regularly instructs at conferences, where he shares all his production 

techniques.


-Marc


At 12:08 PM 1/26/00 , you wrote:

>  I am curious

>if anyone knows of flash sites that walk the line between the bitmap and

>vector worlds? I am fortunate enough to have recently accepted a job with a

>company whose entire product line is in Flash and want to have my cake and

>eat it too.

>

>Examples of what I'm talking about would be the use of video here

>http://www.tothepoint.fi/flash/index.html (Organic human motion vs. vector

>paths), and sputnik7 dose a nice job http://www.sputnik7.com/ (You don't

>look at it and go "Oh another flash site lets learn how to navagate this

>one" it's a mixture -- I'ts also a good example of the tecnical limitations

>of trying to do both vector and bitmap in the same interface)

>

>Sorry for the rant,

>

>Plato



Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

Our latest Flash job is on display at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd>

See our Flash portfolio at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

(featured in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn)



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