Flashalisious

So I have not posted here in a long time so I thought I would make a New Years resolution to post more to my blog. I would love to hear from any of you that my come across my posts. Feedback on my design work is always welcome.

This site that I just finished up was for a Youth girls ministry that just started up this year. The client wanted something geared toward Youth girls. It needed to be something Feminine but cool at the same time. I hope we achieved that. Have a look for yourself.

The project consisted of three different areas to create a site that helped the Ministry get the word out. You have the main Radiant Site located here. http://radiantwalk.com

Next we created a Flash eCard. This is a way for the sites users spread the word. It tells about the ministry and also allows users to tell a friend by filling out a form and emailing a link to the friend about the ecard. The ecard for Radiant Ministries is located here. http://radiantwalk.com/ecard

Finally we took the clients current myspace page and created a color scheme and theme that would match the look of the new web site. You can check out Radiant Ministries myspace page here.

This was a fun project that I got to work on last week. All you guys should check it out. You could win a new Chevy Silverado!

On this project I did 99% of it animating with actionscript only. You guys should really check out the Fuse Kit for actionscript animation if you have not already.

This was a project that I got to work on with Echo Music. Basically the animation on the intro to the site and the animation on the main home page was done by me. As always check out more of my stuff via my web site. http://mswallace.com

The link to the actual web site is dead now. I guess the Holiday is over so the site is over till another Thanksgiving comes around.

This was a great project that I got to work on for the Gospel Music
Channel in conjunction with DIRECTV. I was able to do three different
Flash animated cards showing the different styles of music that are
available. Really a fun project. Best part is I got to use some of the
new Flash 8 filters. Here are links to the three different cards. Even got to build in some flash video too.
buzzplant.com/gmc/ecard1
buzzplant.com/gmc/ecard2
buzzplant.com/gmc/ecard3

technorati tags:Flash, Gospel, Music, Channel, Animaion, Video

So I just finished up a project this week. It was for a new country singer / songwriter out of Nashville, TN.

Now, personally I am not a big country fan. Over all I think the site turned out great. In addition to designing the site I also designed the artist an eCard. This is a great flash based tool that the artist can use for spreading the word and also give the fans a way to pass around the music and buy merchandise from the artist as well, and if you look hard enough on this one you may find some free music.

Check out the site and the eCard at http://gregpopemusic.com

technorati tags:Country, Music, Singer, Songwriter, Greg, Pope, Flash, Animaion, Design, Matthew, Wallace

So I have not posted here is a long time it seams. I have been working really hard to start doing all my animation in flash or at least 90% of it using actionscript. The files are just so much smaller and more optimized animating this way. I am using a great resource for this called the Fuse Kit. you can learn all about it at http://www.mosessupposes.com/Fuse/

The flash animated ecard that I just finished using the Fuse kit is a production for the band SonicFoold. More about them at http://sonicflood.com.

Here is a link to the ecard so you can check it out. http://buzzplant.com/sonicflood/ecard2 and wile you are at it check out my web site for more great Flash stuff that I have done at http://mswallace.com

So here is my latest eCard that I designed in flash. Nothing really special but I think it turned out well. This was for a Christian Artiste - Scott Riggan.

I used Flash 8 as always. I guess the most complex part of this was the mp3 player, and it is not that big of a deal if you have been working in flash for a wile. It has your basic external XML file that loads the song information and also tells flash where to look for all the song files on the server. Enjoy!

As a guitar player myself I just had to pick Steve Vai as a subject matter. Everything you see was drawn using Flash 8 only. No graphics where imported from photoshop or any other program. This is the power you can harness when you learn how to illustrate in flash. When you click on the picture that takes you to the actual Flash file you should right click on it and zoom in and check out some of the detail.

I used a lot of the new filters and blend modes that come with Flash 8 on this one. Man it really lets you do a lot of really cool stuff. Wile you are at it compare my drawing with the home page of Vai.com. Let me know how I did.

So here is a very cool little project that I did on not long ago. I got a new mobile phone called a Pebl. I liked the design and how simple it looked so much that I thought it would make a great MP3 player. Well this is the result. The Flash MP3 Pebl

All the song information is brought into the player using an external xml file and all the songs are loaded from a folder on the server as well. Pretty dang cool. Another thing that I did was use some of the new filters that come with Flash 8. All the glows and shadowing that you see on this Flash MP3 player are using some kind of Flash 8 filter. One of the really cool things that you can do with the filters is tween them as well. If you click around on this MP3 player a bit you will see what I mean. I hope you enjoy!

Just a quick hello. My name is Matthew Wallace. I am a Flash developer and web designer. I am a freelancer in Spring Hill, TN. This is my first attempt at running a blog and I hope you find it tasty and beneficial. Basically I hope to us it as a place to post what I am learning in flash. Hopefully it will reinforce what I am learning and also help you guys out so that we can call grow as developers.

Over all I really hope that you will join in and contribute to my site by commenting and making suggestions. I want this to become a place where we can learn and grow so that we can all serve up the most delicious Flash content out there!