Papervision3D

Here’s one of best uses of PV3D I’ve seen so far.

Kicks Creator was made using Papervision 2.0. It allows users to color and paint a custom Nike Dunk by interacting directly with a 3D model. User designs can be submitted into a contest where the general public gets to vote and rate the top designs.

It was developed at R/GA in New York. More info on Noel Billig’s blog, one of the developers of this amazing site.

Update: It seems Nike’s site is broken, but we received this message from sneaker artist Chef:

I worked alongside a GREAT design team over the last several months to create this site. I provided the idea and inspiration and they did their magic. Papervision was used to skin the 3D model of the Nike AF1 we used as the “canvas” for this Kickz Creator. The set of rules used simulates what I am able to do by hand in my studio. Papervision was particularly useful in allowing us to use artwork from my sponsor 1800 Tequila’s Artist series on various parts of the sneaker. Embeddable 3D widgets were also created that allow full 720 degree rotation of the 3D shoe.
I am very proud of this site and the team that worked on it so hard.

Please check out the original GourmetKickz Creator, an incredible application for 3D product configuration and don’t miss out the great custom designs at GourmetKickz.

Digital Pictures Interactive, from Melbourne, was behind the development of this site for George Patterson Y&R and Cadbury Schweppes.

The campaign for their Spring Valley brand, involves ‘finding and meeting’ your own ‘Sensible’; a comical character that inhabits us all, and here you can have fun with your Sensible in various ways.

It uses the MD2 file format and parser to create one of the first commercial implementation of a realtime 3D character animation with Papervision3D.

More info here.