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So here is a interesting project. We were asked by a Client to design and animate a 45 sec video for a retail store in-store projector. The store was for Florsheim and their new line of shoes by Duckie Brown. Using some animation in Flash and then importing it into Adobe After Effects, we were able to create this video that you see.
BTW – we have Fred, our After Effects/Flash Ninja on board. So if you ever need something similar or any Video/Flash integration, give us a call.
Plus Factory has launched the new Robe Di Kappa website. Robe Di Kappa is a European fashion house, which is doing a strong push in the new Asian markets (read: China!). Robe Di Kappa hired Plus Factory for the design and build of their new fashion website, which uses the latest version of Adobe Flash, HTML/CSS and XML feeds. In both Chinese and English versions, this site just rocks.
We are proud to welcome to the Plus Factory fold, Fred. Fred and I go way back to the 90′s, where we worked on Coca-Cola at McCann (animated gifs at 30k, remember those things?). Fred was a Sr. Flash Developer in those days, when Flash was still owned by Macromedia.
After many years of working together and launching successful online campaigns for Coca-Cola, Fred decided to go another path in his career. That path took him to the world of 3D, After-Effects and post-production. Fred was a 3D animator for shows on Discovery and the History Channel. After spending most of the last decade mastering his skills in post-production, Fred now wants to combine his ninja skills in in post with Adobe Flash circa 2010.
So Fred has come abroad Plus Factory as our 3D/Motion Graphics/Flash guru. He is already fully engaged on numerous projects with our clients utilizing his skills. So if you need Papervision, 3D, motion graphics, green-screening video, etc, you know where to get it. At the Factory.
We are proud to present a recent website we help launch. It’s the National Guard’s Humvee School Program Website (that was a mouthful). Basically the National Guard offers community service programs that showcase the latest and greatest technologies. And in this case, the National Guard brings the biggest, baddest, toughest 4×4 vehicle in the world to high school shop classes to teach students about preventive maintenance.
Rock Creek Strategic Marketing was the agency behind this school program and its interactive website, and they commissioned Plus Factory to help build the Flash modules. Through a great collaborative partnership, Plus Factory was able to bring their creative ideas to life through Flash. If you go to the sections “Humvees in Action” or “Careers Behind the Wheel”, you will see some exciting videos, photos, stories, 360 interactive Humvees and more.
And what is more interesting is what’s behind the Flash. In this case its fully 508 Compliant Adobe Flash files, meaning that people with screen readers and other disability web tools can still engage with the website, even though its built in Flash. And all the data (photos, videos, etc), are being pulled via XML from a back-end CMS (content management systems for those in the know). All in all, a great project. We thank Rock Creek for getting us involved.