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January 8, 2009
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Sport Chalet – The Mountain

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Site for Sport Chalet, promoting their range of snowboarding/skiing products. You are presented with a 3D mountain, you can rotate your perspective around it with each professional boarder/skiier name floating around it. By clicking on one of the names the mountain falls apart spectacularly to form up a new environment where you can see your selected boarder. In some there are videos, interviews, or multi perspective photos – each highlighting the gear they are wearing, where you can see the price and so on – these cool little rollovers follow the person around… I really like this site, from the way it looks, to the high production values (the keying is great), to the fun and engaging way of viewing products, so much better than the standard thumbails and product info – it’s also got some 3D! Awesome!

Created by Firstborn.

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January 5, 2009
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Medias

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Nice site which aggregates a daily news feed, featuring ‘Media-Man’, a character that shows emotional responses based on the content of the news feed! The character is composed of the text, it walks around on screen doing dances and so on, all in a very realistic way – looks motion captured. You can click on the guy to see the feeds that have composed him. Pretty cool…

Created by IMG SRC, Inc., Kaibutsu, and undefined Inc.

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December 24, 2008
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Killers

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Pretty slick site of ‘Killers’, a South American production company. Yes, another 3D interface whereby you click on the images and the camera moves to show the image, which in turn loads a video highlighting the project. What I like about this example, is the smoothness, and slickness of the animation and 3D environment, it’s very simple, very fast and so smooth that just clicking between projects is a joy! I also like the little touches and attention to detail, when you view a project they have reimagined the scrubber for the video, it’s a little semi circle, it looks good – the rollovers and the buttons all feel nice and animate well. Cool site…

Created by Grafikonstruct.

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December 23, 2008
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Honda FIT

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Fantastic site promoting the Honda FIT. Very cool interface, with a the car centre stage, you click and drag the car around and the thumbnails which float around the car in 3D space move so you can select them. Each section features something different, some with little games or images, each highlighting different features of the car. It’s a really fun colourful site, with a really nice use of 3D – which is followed through to the information sections – which is actually quite good fun. I like that you have to explore to get to the various sections – as they are fun you want to see most of them. Love the floating thumbnails and the great feeling of depth in the site, awesome.

Created by Grip Limited.

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December 22, 2008
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Iceman

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Website of Iceman denim of Denmark. What makes this different is the mechanism of viewing the products in the collection, it’s in 3D and and you can tilt/move your view – to see the next image you grab and ‘flip’ the photo – viola the image flips and the next one flips into view. It works really nicely and feels quite tactile, apart form that it is executed nicely with nice animations and video.

Created by JaHallo.

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December 21, 2008
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Public Image Foundation vol. 02

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Mega cool site for what I can gather is a club night somewhere in Japan. Great use of typography and navigation, the menu wraps the character in the centre, you drag your view in 3D space and the text slides around. Your view zooms in/out when clicking on items. Really nicely designed, with a really good use of 3D… love it…

Created by ANSWR Inc.

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December 19, 2008
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Final Art New Media

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Portfolio site of Polish agency Final Art New Media. Interesting way of showing work, again a 3D interface where you find yourself inside and amongst the work, where you can view stills / watch videos of their work. Each category are in different stacks of images which you float between to see the different categories, which gives the site a nice depth and fun interactivity.

Made by Beestudio.

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December 16, 2008
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Own Your C 2.0

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Self proclaimed as the ‘first-ever choice-making community’, the site poses questions to you, then displays how others have answered. Run by ‘The Colorado State Tobacco Education & Prevention Partnership’ to help young people form their own opinions and encourage better decisions about tobacco.

Presented in a really nice way, in 3D space! with floating responses waiting to form the results of the posed questions. You can also see how your opinions match with other user’s and see comments about each question. It is also possible to narrow results by country, gender, and age – amongst others. It’s a really nice way of presenting data in a simple, easy to narrow way. I also like the great use of 3D, really helps to add depth to the site and provide interesting transitions.

Created by AgencyNet.

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December 11, 2008
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Speak Visual

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Website promoting nVidia graphics cards & processors. Presented in a 3D interface, you can see nVidia user’s perspectives and thoughts about using their products. (Even Joshua Davies is in there!!) There is also a 3D gallery of images from user’s the world over. I like the way they have used 3D to give a great sense of depth to the site, they often break the frame of the site to give an even more pronounced effect. Throughout is a realistic sense of light and shade with polished animations, layout and typography.

Made by Odopod & Cutwater.

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December 9, 2008
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Safe Trip Home

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Website promoting the female vocal artist Dido and her new album ‘Safe Trip Home’. Featuring film director’s videos that are inspired by the idea ‘what home means to them’, they accompany selected songs from the album – the audience can also respond with their opinions which then float around the globe and when you are looking at specific videos. Navigated by dragging around a 3D globe and viewing the various videos.

It’s a really nicely crafted site, lots of attention to detail, nice typography, and a great interface, really easy to use and great to look at. Really a rich site and a nice idea for promoting a new album, you get the hear snippets of the songs, see nice visuals and interesting short films, and get emotional responses from people all over the world…

Created by B-Reel and Work Club.

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November 20, 2008
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Audi – Vorsprung durch Technik

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Incredible Flash 3d particle execution promoting Audi and their efficiency. A series of mesh like structures make up various shapes to visually represent a 3d model, which you can interact with and move around, i.e. when you click on ‘engines’ the dots form up a model engine. Presented in a very simple black and white minimal interface the particles are well presented. Looks a lot like scatter radar, and similar to the 3d interactive Radiohead video. I have been loving the boundaries Audi and their digital agencies are breaking with their creative work, inspirational and bold. Very nice…

Created by Neue Digitale.

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November 13, 2008
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Vodafone Racing

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Site showing the 2008 season of Formula 1 team McLaren Mercedes. Nice clean crisp interface that displays photographs and key moments of the season, navigated via a 3D parallax system. You can jump back and forth between the various circuits from Australia to Brazil, with the camera flying through the scene. A nice way of displaying chronological information in a graphic, well structured way. Like the way the camera flies with great speed to the various circuits.

Created by Dare Digital.

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November 6, 2008
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Thoughtpile

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Nice site that presents thought provoking questions and asks the audience to contribute and rate ideas – the best is awarded a Herman Miller chair. Created in a 3d floating interface that allows you to fly through the responses and see how they are rated. A clean crisp interface makes navigation simple and an interesting rotation ‘wheel’ can be dragged around to zoom in/out and rotate the scene. Nicely crafted, simple and effective.

Made by Freedom & Partners.

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October 29, 2008
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Offlohi

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Very cool site of a group of talented directors based in Hong Kong. Their videos are presented in an 3D anamorphic ‘ribbon’ of thumbnails, you can zoom in and pan around, and click on any part of the ribbon to view the videos. Really like the fluid ribbon, and the unique way the videos are presented, its a nice mechanism to play with – cool.

Created by pill & pillow.

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