Nissan

After months of production, Nissan Australia is finally live. Brian O'Neill was behind the Alfresco wheel again so the teething with Nissan Finance paid off. Things turned out well and the site has a lot of features tied very closely with the CMS allowing Nissan incredible control over their website; something they're greatly appreciative off.

The showcase features a comparator for price, fuel economy and seating which dynamically adjusts for values and is modular and extendible.

XZone

This has been my most adventurous project so far. It is a new field and a relatively new sport in India so we wanted to show users the world through the eyes of someone on the field.

What resulted was a 3D panorama of the field driven by the fantastic Papervision 3D engine. The interface and content is simple with all the focus on the field.

It's been a good long ride for this one, and I got to experiment with a lot, and have a solid site come out of it.

Nissan Finance

Car manufacturing giant Nissan's Financial Services division needed a web presense. And with a lot of their international counterparts moving towards Flash for increased interactivity, they decided to take this step as well. An important part of this move was also the use of a very powerful CMS: Alfresco. Brian O'Neill was the man behind getting Alfresco working and generating XML, which I then used to build the Flash.

The site also features a Finance Estimator helping you figure out what cars you can afford, taking into account the interest, term and frequency of payment.

This job also ended up landing us the contract for Nissan's main site for Australia, which is now live and my biggest project to date.

William May

Brooklyn-born producer, director and composer William H. May got Bliss Media to develop his personal website. He is behind the Broadway adaptation of BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs among many others.

The site, run off Bliss Media's CMS, is driven entirely through XML. It also featured my first detailed use of SWFAddress, which enables back button support and bookmarking of individual pages.

Little Man

Over the last 4 weeks, I got together with the talented Alexandra Lester and James Bailey to build a flash game for a uni assignment. It's finally up after much battling and confusion. The engine is a lot more powerful than it looks, thanks to Mr. Bailey, and we did some solid stress tests on it. It's still a little iffy on Mac browsers though. Either way, its good fun, so give it a go. And this is my first complete flash game so I'm pretty excited.

The game itself involves much swinging and many a goat. It's a platformer and you spend time collecting an immense amount of food until you fall to your imminent death. There's no better way to spend five minutes.

Gabriel Lynch Band

The Gabriel Lynch Band is an exciting indie-pop band on the Melbourne Circuit. They do really energetic live shows and on the release of their new album Something like Twilight, they got me to do up their website. The center of the website here was the music and the photo shoot by Mr. James Bailey. The basic idea for the look comes from the ironic playfulness of their album When Balloon Animals Attack. It's very hand-made, quickly constructed and humanly imperfect, with a lot of heart.

The photo gallery and the music player are the main features of the site. Photographs coming from Flickr, and the music getting drawn straight off the server by PHP. Both exciting little classes to build and practically completely automated to update. All content comes from Wordpress so that's easy to edit as well and serves as a broadly effective albeit largely imprecise CMS.

Alexandra Lester and I later also designed the cover art for the album Something like Twilight.

Eleisha Gray

Eleisha Gray is a Stylist and Graphic Designer who's worked for the likes of Uncle Toby's, RACV, Myer, and a whole lot more. She's got a simple bold style and quite a subtle but vivid image. From the outset her site was to be one central image and simple navigation. All controls went right in there and the site is incredibly uncomplicated.

The site is organised by a set of PHP scripts that read folder structure and generate the contents of the site directly. Which means she simple makes folders and throws images or videos in, and the site reads over them and generates the menu by folder names and displays images from there. It's a really effective, albiet basic, CMS system and can easily be plugged into a more comprehensive system if needed.

Bliss Media

I've been a part of a real fun company called Bliss Media for the last 2 years, and it was great to be a part of their website redesign. For me, as a Flash designer and advocate, this meant a move toward using flash as an interactive tool rather than simply an animation and effects system.

Here that meant two pieces for the site: the portfolio, and the studio page. The portfolio, was my first useful foray into 3D in flash. I used papervision, and a technique off Mr. Doob for creating depth of field blurring. The whole thing is driven by XML and completely dynamic and extendible. Flash then simply had to talk to Javascript to make the bottom half change. The studio page is a collage panorama of the office and shuffles the different images around to look around the main room.

Princess Pictures

Princess Pictures are behind the likes of Chris Lilly's Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes and The Way We Speak, Stuff, and more. Their website is built around an environment as twisted as their shows.

Green Layers

Green Layers is the World's Largest Alpha Video Library. They have a massive range of clips shot in incredible HD quality, pre-matted and ready to use. With the range of clips they have, and the rate at which the library grows, it was really important to give customers and way of previewing clips that showed off their possibilities and really proved you could use them in your environment. From this need, grew The Green Room.

The Green Room is a live, online video compositing Software that runs straight off your browser. It has multiple layers, each with blending options, opacity and blurring, not to mention transformation tools. You can even upload images of your own to use in multiple layers. This effectively allowed buyers to play with clips using their own backgrounds, logos and environments to mock-up a preview of their project before even buying the clips.

Winequest

Winequest believes that a true appreciation for great wine, and great food comes from the ambience you're in. So, they take you straight to the vineyard: to have have massive parties, all year round, with eclectic and diverse music to boot.

The site's homepage features countdowns to all their events is a larger than life mix of colour and movement.

Mark Seymour

Mark Seymour is an Australian musician probably best known for being the frontman and songwriter of Hunter's and Collectors, the guys behind Throw Your Arms Around Me and Holy Grail among many others.

This was my first website with Bliss Media, and the first time I firmly plugged Flash into a fully featured CMS. News, Photos, Discography and Media, all gathering content from databases and displaying in a dynamic, lively environment.

Sidera

Sidera deal in premium imported cider. The website is simple and elegant, with bold photogrpahs of the bottles, promoting their range. This website depended highly on clear but effective movement and use of depth of field.

Pocketwatch

I started writing and putting together a Graphic Novel with Ashish Avin It's on a bit of a hiatus, pushing a year now... but we started on environments and story so the images are from there. These were done using a basic 3D render from Maya as a base and over painted in Corel Painter. Someday, I can only hope, this project will see the light of day.

James Carrick

James Carrick is a photographer who really intrigues me: simple, real images and an almost painterly sense of colour and form. James was looking for a simple way to showcase his work and got me to make that happen. With portfolios I usually start with the idea that the work should be the center piece and really drive the look of the site, and the site be as incedental as possible. So the look came from wanting to break the lines formed by a regular grid of images most commonly used everywhere.

The animation on top of that was very simple; movement dividing image sets and creating shapes almost at random depending on the proportions of each image. The images are all fed in dynamically, which makes changing them incredibly easy. Because we didn't have the the resources to use a full blown CMS, we used a simple file naming system to categorise and organise the images; which seems to have turned out great.

Nirvana Films

Nirvana Films produces possibly some of the best advertising films in India. They have a diverse portfolio of great campaigns and are at pretty much the fore-front when it comes to quality. This website was an absolute pleasure to produce, and continues to be a increasinly amazing portfolio as they make new stuff.

The simple menu Our Films Speak About Us formed the basis of an incredibly distinct and clear site and took little work on my side to get it feeling right.

Random

This is a small collection of random work. It's 3D, terragen experiments, print work, logos and anything else I felt like throwing in here.

For the most part, these are self motivated, but some are parts of projects for uni or things that didn't go anywhere.

For verbal rantings visit the blog: http://randomlies.wordpress.com/

Yuyutsa

Yuyutsa is a corporate training company that broke into the exciting world of paintball. Paintball was a new sport in India and therefore an important part of the site was to help people know more about it. Yet, when we went through what there was to say, there was no better place than the Internet. So instead of re-saying everything about the sport, we wrote specifically about playing at Yuyutsa, and led on the more information elsewhere.

This meant that the site could surround more of the experience of paintball, and what better way to do that than a first person video smack in the middle. We got a hold of cameras and went played some paintball. Still photographs were by Jegan.

Prathibha

Prathibha started out in Bangalore with a great ad campaign and some really striking photography. Fisheye designed and wrote content for their website and got me to put it together. This was one of my early websites developed with editability in mind.

Converge

Converge is a company that produces and organises leasing of advertising structures like Point-Of-Purchase displays, differnt types hoardings in various locations, and more. They deal with construction design, material selection, and the actual building and installation. So their site came from this idea of blueprints and manufacture. With interactive 3d in flash years away, this meant pre-rendered sequences.

Using 3DS Max, I constructed a piece of a city and selected a couple of locations to be the centers for each page. These were then rendered out into vector sequences to be used. The result is fairly immersive and gives the site a good amount of life.