Posted: March 29th, 2009 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: Random | Tags: Real Life | No Comments »
Hadn’t posted in a long while. I was swamped with school work – projects, exams, and more projects. But now it is all over, and I can finally take a breather. 
Although, it will be a short breather; I have to go to summer class to catch up with missed classes. *sigh* Oh well, at least it’s better than just staying at home.
So, for this summer, I have a few things in mind that I plan to accomplish, in no particular order:
- finish summer classes, obviously
- finish reading “Making Things Move”
- hopefully have some semblance of a website
- learn how to drive
- have fun
There might be a few more other things, but those are the ones on the top of my head right now. They all seem attainable in the limited time I have between classes.
I’ll be back with more Flash stuff, but maybe no more random experiments this time. I’m going back to basics reading the “Making Things Move” book (awesome read).
Posted: December 31st, 2008 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: Random, Uncategorized | Tags: Animation | No Comments »
Happy new year everyone!
Here is a neat little animation, made by 300,000 candles.
Happy new year!
Posted: November 5th, 2008 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: Art and Design, Random | Tags: Art, Inspirtation | No Comments »
I happened on this site today. It is a ” fan-curated gallery” of all of Pixar’s publicly available conecpt artwork. It’s not very extensive right now, but it still is a great source of inspiration.
The Art of Pixar
Posted: August 19th, 2008 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: AS 3.0, Computers, Programming and Development, Random | Tags: Experiments, Flash, Flash Engines, FlexBuilder, Papervision | 2 Comments »
Greetings all, still haven’t fixed the PC, and no plans in buying a new one. 
But, being forced to use a Macbook with no games installed(damn DotA) and a slow connection, I managed to find some time to get back into Flash and ActionScript.
I finally figured out how to setup external class libraries in FlexBuilder, which took longer than I would have hoped. Now I can use Papervision3D, Away3D and have a central library for all other API’s and classes. It’s not as enjoyable as FlashDevelop, but, it’s better than nothing.
I also started playing with PV3D, which is just awesome. Very fun to play around with, and I can’t wait to make something I could use for my eternally work-in-progress site.
And finally, there’s a new tweening engine on the block. It’s called gTween and it’s made by Grant Skinner, so you know it’s great. Like TweenLite, it aims for speed and it’s also very lightweight. It’s still in beta, and not as powerful and feature-packed as TweenMax or other tweening engines. I haven’t tested it enough to choose it over TweenLite yet, but, I like it’s different approach to creating and managing (yep, you could manage, edit, reuse and even nest) tweens. Check it out here.
And, yeah, I would post my little “experiment” with Papervision, but I can’t seem to extract/find the swf file. I even tried using the .as file as a Document class to a Flash file, but I still can’t double-click and play the movie.
I am also having trouble with FlexBuilder, whenever I Run/Play button to test a project, it often doesn’t show anything until several retries or not at all, but using the .as file as a Doc class to a Flash file, it plays fine. 
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Posted: July 13th, 2008 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: Art and Design, Computer Graphics, Flash, Web | Tags: Design, Flash, RIA, Tools, Web | No Comments »
I recently got an invite from someone at the kirupa.com forums to some Aviary tools. I only have access to two tools at the moment (Phoenix and Peacock), and only tested Phoenix (Peacock was a bit too complicated to test).
All I’ve got to say is, wow. This toolset is quite impressive. It has some very nice basic features, a few filter effects, hotkeys (!), and it is very smooth (it’s slow at times, but that’s because of my limited CPU). The interface is very nice, although the icons and panels are a little too big and take a lot of real estate IMO.
Still, it’s a little buggy, and there a Feedback menu on the toolbar for easy, well, feedback. 
I’m going to play more with Phoenix and try to make something cool. I really want to test Hummingbird (the 3D editor), but I don’t know how to sign up for the beta or even if it’s available.
I have a few invites remaining, so if you want to try them, just post.
Posted: June 7th, 2008 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: Art and Design, Random, Web | Tags: Art, Drawing, Internet, Web | No Comments »
Today is 6-7-08, the day selected by some people as Drawing Day. The people on the site want to reach 1,000,000 drawings online, and I would love to be a part of that. I have marked this day on my calendar, but somehow I forgot about it and I haven’t drawn anything! But no worries, the day isn’t over yet and they say it might go on for at least a week, and besides, it still isn’t June 7th on the other side of the world.
So, if you haven’t yet, start drawing and upload it on anything, anywhere! I’ll porbably post it on this blog, and my DeviantArt account too.
Happy Drawing Day everyone!
On a completely unrelated side-note, I’ll be changing themes often over the next few days until I find one I really like, so expect some changes.