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Coolest Flash sites of 2006
I’ve been a little lax in putting up URLs to Flash sites during 2006, but there’s two sites that have really turned my head...
Motorola: Moto colors
Every time a new version of Flash comes out, it takes the design community a while to really get to grips with all the new features. Video alpha was the first new feature to become mainstream, but that only appeared in high end sites (as the costs of professional video production are an order of magnitude higher than most other motion graphics).
The other, potentially cooler features are hidden within ActionScript, and its taken until the end of 2006 for a site that uses most of them to appear; moto colors (www.motocolors.net or direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/colors).
This site allows you to create cool vector based patterns, the type of thing that used to take ages in Illustrator and was all the rage a few years back (appearing in all sorts of places, including the Flash 5 box artwork). Not only does moto colors allow you to create the vector artwork, the site also allows you to save the work as a screensaver and desktop theme installer for your Windows/Mac computer or Motorola cell phone.
This site uses many of the features of Flash 8 that are hidden under the bonnet (bitmap caching, better support for server side communications, etc) and is a perfect example of the creative use of web applications.
Susanne Paschke: portfolio site
Flash-only sites are cool, but the really good use of Flash only shows through in sites that integrate Flash with other technologies (or Flash Used Carefully Keeps Users; I’d turn it into an acronym - more memorable than AJAX, but…).
The Susanne Paschke site (www.susannepaschke.de) is a perfect mix of cool Flash motion graphics and good HTML layout; the Flash and HTML simply meld together to produce something that is better than either.
Posted by motiongraphics on December 28, 2006 01:27 PM
Yup. I know. I've had *lots* of emails over christmas regarding the vCam. As I've also got *lots* of christmas holiday to take off, I'm on it this weekend ;)
Posted on December 28, 2006 01:53 PM
I can't find your email anywhere on your site, so I might as well ask here:
A post back in Sept. of 2005 says Vcam v2 is nearing release, but that was over a year ago. I can't find anything indicating that it would be out, so I am wondering if it in fact is, or not quite yet. I just recently got the original one (from the page with the .fla of the waterfall example), and if there's a newer one, might as well use that right? :P
Posted on December 28, 2006 11:16 PM
Sham, just wanted to say your vcam comment just about made me cream my... well, you know. Just wanted to say thanks for that in advance. Truly incredible tool there.
Posted on December 29, 2006 04:16 PM
Hi Sham,
I'm reading your book published by O'Reilly (Flash Hacks) in wich you write about the book's web site for the source codes used in the book. Well! Maybe I'm stupid or the italian version is wrong, but I can't find the book's url address anywhere in the pages or in the O'Reilly web site. Would you help me? :-P
Posted on February 13, 2007 03:07 PM
Hi Sham,
I'm reading your book published by O'Reilly (Flash Hacks) in wich you write about the book's web site for the source codes used in the book. Well! Maybe I'm stupid or the italian version is wrong, but I can't find the book's url address anywhere in the pages or in the O'Reilly web site. Would you help me? :-P
Posted on February 13, 2007 03:11 PM
I have came across to this site two times,but could'nt find any thing unsimilar (Outstanding),Yes but the entire collection is good at first side.
Posted on March 31, 2007 09:00 AM
I'm in the same situation . Do you know where can i find it
Posted on April 26, 2007 01:27 PM
Hi Claus, Dankos.
The OReilly page for the Flash hacks book is http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/flashhks/index.html
If you go there and click the 'Examples' link at the bottom, you should see zip files for the book examples. The direct link is http://examples.oreilly.com/flashhks/
Hope that helps
Sham
Posted on September 6, 2007 09:45 AM