Another great Absolut microsite, promoting the visions of ‘an Absolut world’. Each vision can be opened up – the box unfolds -and shows a 3D animated vision. It provides a really nice user experience, and you can even upload your own. Really like the way the boxes open and reveal their contents – really cool. Lots more info here.
Created by Greatworks with the help of Papervision creator Carlos Ulloa.
Really cool website for The Vacuum Design. You float around their portfolio in 3D, demonstrating their style of work. There are some really great sites and motion design showcased here. A great 3D website where the form really adds to the design – nice concept and nice design.
Wow, incredible site for Red Bull promoting the Flugtag – an international event where people create flying contraptions and run off a large ramp into a lake! This is the interactive equivalent. You can design your own plane, edit other peoples, or use templates – you can paint it, choose what material the parts are made of and so on. You then enter the flying arena where you take your design to the skies and perform tricks and try and get a high score.
The attention to detail is incredible, created by Less Rain, as they write in their blog: “Flight Lab gives you the real thing: It’s a 6DOF (degrees of freedom) flight simulator modeled by a physics engine in 3D using rigid body dynamics. Real airplane wings can be described by specific lift and drag coefficients, depending on how quickly and from which angle the air flows over a wing section. That’s what Flight Lab does.” Some great ‘making ofs’ can be found on their blog, part 1, part 2. Just a really amazing, ground breaking site, made in Papervision that really couples great design, usability and latest technology. I love the art direction and the concept has been well thought out and executed, really impressive!
Real slick site, promoting the Nike Air Jordan XX3 basketball shoe. Really nice example of first person perspective 3D navigation – as 3D penetrates the latest websites we see it in the style of ‘Doom’! Apart from that its just a good looking, well performing microsite.
Created by Blast Radius.
Website of Whitevoid Art & Design, an agency that specialises in various interactive disciplines. A really clean, fluid 3d interface; very simple and enjoyable to use. I really like the concept – and feel its a really nice use of 3d – kept simple and to the point.
Another nice photographer’s portfolio – Emmanuel Rouzic. I particularly like the main homepage, the loading of the thumbnails, & general design. Some nice touches – when in a particular section, when choosing to go ‘next’ a selection of thumbs appear. Deep linking, making of videos, and the clearing of the space (so you can just see the photo) all make a slick, professional folio.
Created by Pixeling Life.
Smart Flash blog for Pill & Pillow. Great example of a good Flash blog, really simple to use, it looks good, and works well. I like the way the posts appear on stage, and how the content changes to fit the browser window. There is some great content as well.
Really slick site for 2929 Productions – an independant film production company. The site looks great and has some really great transitions – nothing ground breaking – just looks & works great.
Created by T-Sign.
Nice way of showcasing short films and installations. Showing 20 works from the last 20 years of Coventry School of Art and Design’s New Media Arts MA. Using Papervision 3D to allow the use to explore the material in an interesting way. Effective and fun site.
Created by Less Rain.
Pretty nice portfolio website of Switch Mediaworks. I’ve included this due to the amount of innovative rollovers and basic interactions that have been re-thought – its refreshing to see conventions of user interactions have been questioned. Nice slick animations and transitions. Particularly like the way rollovers are highlighted and the videos are introduced.
Website of a design & innovation consultancy. Slick 3D navigation interface, and lots of nice touches. In particular the way you navigate images and drill down into the various sections. Text appears in a unique way with lots of movement and nice attention to detail.
Created by Kakarod.
Site showcasing the new HD capabilities of the Flash Player, each trailer has a HD option, which launches the trailer in HD and full screen. Really great way of presenting the trailers in a nice visual way, nice touches and easy to use navigation. The transition between full screen and windowed is pretty cool. Great progress for the Flash Player.
Made by Big Spaceship.
Footage of whales to increase awareness of their plight. Really slick site – the best use of video in terms of interacting and navigating I have seen. For each bit of footage small images are placed apparently at each keyframe, these images change as the cursor is moved across the timeline. For each whale a small thumbnail of each video is played, all very minimal and stylish. Its a great site with lots of really good touches and great attention to detail.
By Scholz & Volkmer.
Photographer’s website, using black as the concept – a whole host of transitions and effects are in full effect, revealing the content. There are some really nice touches in here, in particular the way text is revealed and images are transitioned – I really like the simplicity of the site. There is nothing over the top in terms of navigation and it remains easy to use.
Created by Artificial Duck.
