I've been ignoring this website recently. I know that both of my regular visitors have been greatly disappointed by the lack of new tutorials, but let me tell you that it is not without great cause that I've deserted you.
To begin, I am now Sr. Designer at NFL.com and designing for a site that has such a huge audience is not a small feat.
More importantly though, I have been working on a number of new projects and tutorials in AS3. I've decided not to port my existing examples over because they are conceptually very similar to th AS3 implementations, for the most part there are really only a few syntax changes and added event listeners.
The main project that I've been working on though was inspired by Erik Natzke from my trip to FITC Toronto about a month ago. The night I saw his presentation I went back to my hotel room and immediately began extending the particle system I had already been working on for the previous few months and really started to unleash its power. I've developed it into a system I call Partisiple. Partisiple allows me to take an image and paint a new image using its color data as parameters that control my "brush".
The image attached to this post was created using Partisiple and a simple random motion generator. I've only begun to scratch the surface of the potential of this system, so be on the look out for more.
Ignoring This Site
May 14, 2008