by Ryan Uhrich
Hi guys, My name is Ryan Uhrich from DD07. It’s coming up to 1 year since I graduated from VFS, and man, the time has flown by. First off I’d like to congratulate DD10 and wish them my best. I’m sure you’re all super tired by this point.
Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. I recently created my 2008 portfolio site along with a new showreel. I wanted to share it with all of you. It’s a mix of student work along with commercial broadcast projects I did while working at THANKYOU in Denmark. I just finished it in time for the upcoming ADAA event being held in New York City. Myself along with Marcos Ceravolo are fortunate enough to be finalists in the motion graphics category this year for our final project Duelity. So, wish us luck. :) Fingers crossed.
To the other DD classes to come, keep on rockin’ it.
Best,
Ryan
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by Brett Forsyth
I wanted to give all current students and alumni a heads up about some Papervision 3D 2.0 training coming to Vancouver on May 3rd and 4th. It is presented by the Rich Media Institute and you will be trained by Papervision 3D core team member John Grden. If you are interested in the course let me know because if enough people are going to go I can get you a group rate.
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by Boca Ceravolo
Hey guys, how are you doing?
Just dropped by to ask you guys a little favor; our final project “DUELITY” is one of the finalists at FITC 2008 in the Motion Graphics category. As a finalist we are automatically an entry for the people’s choice awards, so Ryan and i would really appreciate if you guys could vote for us! It’s really simple and it only takes a minute; just go to http://awards.fitc.ca/pc , select DUELITY on the Motion Graphics list, put your name and e-mail address on the bottom and click on submit vote! Simple as that!
Thanks a lot guys!
Keep up the good work!
Cheers
Boca
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by Tyler Egeto
CanUX (a Microsoft Developer Network blog) is a blog that focuses on the user experience community in Canada. Recently they took a look at me and some of my work, specifically my final project, the Organic Web.
The article can be found here. In the article I talk briefly about my passions as a designer and where I am headed in the future. Also in the article is a video that demonstrates some of the core concepts behind the Organic Information Visualization System I developed, (the system that the Organic Web demo application is built on).
A special thanks to CanUX for giving me the opportunity to share my work!
-Tyler Egeto
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by Danny Chan
It’s always great to see work from former faculty members and alumni. Check out the work from Todd Smith, and DD07 alumni Boca and Ryan Uhrich at Thank You.
Also, you should check out the Mar/Apr 2008 issue of Applied Arts. Jeff Greenberg from DD06, branding instructor Eric Karjaluoto, and Final Project advisors Cosmo Campbell, Alex Beim, Sergio Toporek, Wil Arndt have all been honoured for their various interactive design projects.
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by Danny Chan
Let’s show our support for Ryan and Boca from DD07. Their term 4 piece is a nominee in the category of Best Animated Video for the Yahoo! Video Awards. We have until Friday, March 21 to vote.
And don’t forget about Simon’s piece for the “See What’s Possible” challenge.
http://swp.cutandpaste.com/user/370
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by Boca Ceravolo
Hello everyone! How are you all doing?
So, DUELITY is finally LIVE! We apologize for the delay but Ryan and I were really busy after we graduated and we only had time to finish it now…
So, without further a due, i give you DUELITY!
Special thanks to Mr. Brett Forsyth for helping us with the site!
Make sure you leave a comment on the discussion blog we created for it…
Keep rocking it!
Cheers!
Boca
Update: DUELITY is featured on Motionographer!!! I just wanted to share this with you guys, it’s a dream come true!
http://motionographer.com/2007/12/10/boca-and-ryan-ulrich-duelity/
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by Tyler Egeto
hello everyone. Last term one of my big focuses was on a flash project called “Visual Sound”. This was a exploratory project for me which introduced a few new technologies and jammed them together. The first challenge I faced with this project was the migration from Action Script 2 to Action Script 3. Before I could do anything I had to start all over with the basics and teach my self the new (and better) language, which was extremely enjoyable.
The second phase of this was an exploration into a technology called Papervision3D. I won’t get into specifics, (check it out here) but it allows us to put 3D into flash.
The third thing was into a physics engine called Ape Physics. (see it here)
And thirdly I had to combine them all together and and attach them to audio information at flash player run time. The results are interesting. So what is happening in the program is that flash loads the audio files in and reads the data in it, like its wave form. From there I take that information and use it to create a visual representation of it. The final result is pretty neat. Overall this was a very satisfying project for me, and forced me to learn a lot.
Make sure to move the mouse around, in most of the examples you can interact with the visualization. Pushing the mode button will switch between two different modes, one reads the audio’s frequency data, and the other reads its amplitude. The first visualizer does a good job of showing this difference.
See it here.
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