A Deviner’s life A 3D engine and alpha videos

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We were told to create a 3D room, using only the default 2.5D features in Flash Player 10. Right. That’s college-talk for ‘we want you to create your own 3D engine‘. So that’s what I set out to do. Using nothing else then the PerspectiveProjection class and the 2.5D features, I got close to creating a kind of cube class.

The site is basically a video blog. Every entry has 2 versions: A ‘normal’ version and a ‘alpha’ version. The ‘alpha’ version is only showing the moving parts of the video. That was done using some clever After Effects magic.

There was also the request to have a HTML sidebar with comments and ratings. I decided to make it a simple overlay with a straight forward animation. It used to work perfectly in all browsers, but as it turns out, browsers have changed. So sorry if you are seeing strange things in your browser ;-) (I just wanted to put it out there).

View the site: A Deviner’s life
Read the blog post: About a Deviner’s life