2008.10.31
Projekt
The SEAT Leon campaignsite was a fast and very simple way of showing their 8 Leon cars.. Have a look!
2008.10.21
Observationer
When Blender 2.48 came out a couple of days ago I decided to give it a try. I had no real previous experience of the application besides some half hearted attempt that resulted in me finding the GUI confusing and uninstalling. However this time was different.
After spending some time with tutorials, reading about Blender and watching the result produced with it I was getting hooked. The thing that struck me was that this free program got feature updates that should make all of the mayor 3D developers nervous. But most important of all – the dedicated community that makes sure it never gets old and tired. I believe this will make Blender (and similar apps) market leading in time. Don’t believe me? Listen to what Shawn Kelly, cofounder of Animation Mentor and senior animator at ILM has to say on the subject:
…”I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the world was stunned by a true blockbuster film someday, created by people collaborating in their garages all over the world”
(Full interview at www.blendernation.com)
The modeling in Blender is really intuitive and once you get the hold of some shortcuts it’s fast to work with. There are some free tutorials in the various forums and at Blender.org but I highly recommend the Creature Factory DVD if you wish to take it further. And don’t forget the Manycandy rig by Bassam Kurdali. It’s free and totally amazing.
Read more and download blender at Blender.org
2008.10.08
Produkter
Mox 2.3 has become Mox 3.0 with a new interior and exterior.
Mox (Management Of EXtensible Markup Language) is an XML-editor for non-database-driven sites. Mox lets you add, remove and edit content in the browser, easy, fast and safe. Mox is mostly used by flash-applications driven by XML-files.
Mox is now, more than ever, easy to setup and gives a broader range of customization thru templates. It doesn’t matter if there is one or ten different types of XML, they will all be able to be edited by the same setup of Mox.
Also in the widely broaden functionality there is the option to configure fields to textarea, input-text and drop-down select-boxes. All input-fields can be configured to use WYSIWYG in the advanced-mode and to accept files, HTML as input. Default values, options and CSS-classes are also new features within the configuration. Now it is also possible to setup different rules, like file-size and upload-folder for each file-type. Finally the configuration allows altering the UI by removing and adding tool-buttons.
Mox 3.0 has now also been blessed with a new logo, color-scheme and animation. The usability has improved with an advanced mode with a WYSIWYG-editor and file-type specified file-upload and gallery.
Front-end of Mox 3.0 is developed with browsers from the past, present and the future in mind (IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera and Google Chrome). The only demand for Mox to run is that the server has PHP5 installed.
2008.10.03
Projekt
Tele2 asked Bazooka to brainstorm about their new mobile broadband guide. We had a lot of thoughts and ideas but the main focus was on the usability. The user must be able to change his/hers choices without clicking “next” and “back” or even worse by redoing the guide. Our sollution was a flash site that enables the user to play around with the answers to a number of questions and getting the suggestion of broadband in real time. To make it more fun we added a wire that bounce and stretch as the user makes his choices.
Bazooka covered idea, interaction, design and flash programing in this production.
2008.10.03
Observationer
Working with graphics every day makes you a expert of tiny irritating details that no one outside your profession care about. I’m talking about that you can’t make a unsymmetrical gradient in Adobe illustrator. That you can’t look at your Photoshop document in 66,7% zoom without irritating artifacts and messy pixels. After effects layers soon becomes a mess when making complex scenes. The list goes on.
So when Adobe release their CS4 package and shows of new sollutions for these and many more problems it makes my nerd heart beat extra fast. Some of the stuff like the 3D painting functionality in Photoshop seems like more of a “show off” and not that useful in my every day work. There are better ways of doing this. The strength of this release is in the details and I’m impressed with the way the Adobe team keeps on developing their products. I Can’t wait to get my hands on this release!
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2008.10.01
Produkter
We figured our Bazment site needed a little makeover. This time we chose it fresh and clean, “Accordion” style..
Bazment is Bazookas own Content Management System.
