Last week, on behalf of the PV3D team, I had the pleasure to present Papervision3D at TEDGlobal 2009 conference in Oxford.
I see this as a great recognition to the work of everybody in the project, from developers to our amazing community, certainly an idea worth spreading.
Keep you posted when the video goes live.
Nobuaki Arikata, from Japanese studio EJE sent this super sweet site made for a dentist, full of animated 3D characters.
They imported the 3D models from LightWave and animated them on Flash. It takes a little while to load, but the result is beautiful.
Jerry Filipiak sent us this nice Papervision3D site they´ve done as introduction for their web agency, So Interactive, in beautiful Krakow, Poland.
If you click on play, the paper figurines that form the menu become targets in game where you have to hit them with a paper ball. Very nicely done and a fun game too!
Andre Assalino developed this beautiful pop-up book Baileys site for Chemistry, London. Designed by Ryohei Hase, Rob Trono and Jose Valente, The Baileys Lounge is a Papervision3D based magazine, updated every month.
It’s 3 sections (Features, Food & Drink and Offers) contain dynamic highlights and respective articles, fed via XML.
The 3D animations were done in 3D Max at the time, so they could position the assets properly, and in turn, the animations are controled via code, as is the dynamic highlights’ positioning.
Very well done and a beautiful use of light.
Moscow based STAIN have developed a crazy 3D first person PacMan game for CASA creative force.
Alexandra Gavrilova and Sergey Titov used Papervision 2.0, Tweener, FlashDevelop as code editor, Flash CS3 to make swc files and Blender for 3d modelling and COLLADA export.
They found particles very useful because of their low performance needs and pure vector look, and Alexandra added star and diamond shapes to particle material class. Vectorvision is used for CASA logotype in the end.
Flash on the Beach is coming soon this year, 20th-23rd Sept -even the weather should be awesome down in Brighton.
Organizer John Davey is working hard to make this event even better than previous editions, and looking at the speaker line-up it won’t be easy to decide who to see next.
Our project will be represented by Ralph Hauwert, Seb Lee-Delisle and myself, Carlos Ulloa. We’ll be discussing our latest work and explaining the different techniques used in the process. It’s also always a great opportunity to meet the members of our community and relax at the evening parties.
Please note that with attendees coming from all over Europe, tickets will sold out as usual.
Excellent interactive infographics from The New York Times that allows you to examine the 15th hole of the US Open Golf Tournament in glorious 3D.
Impressive high detail was achieved with a high-mesh laser scan of the 15th green that was used to build a detailed texture map and a simplified model for import into Papervision.
Created by Shan Carter, Mika Grondahl and Joe Ward at The New York Times.
Here’s a few “in case you missed it” news bites:
Ribbit recently held a killer app contest to see who could put together the best app using Ribbit’s integrated web communication technology. It just so happens that the winner of the contest also used a little 3d library known as Papervision3D 
Congratulations Lucid Viewer:
We also just held a Papervision3D Augmented Reality Contest on the Forums for a copy of FDT (thanks FDT!). The winning entry by James Alliban is quite amazing. Check it out (and don’t forget to stop by the forums for all your Papervision3D questions):
Lastly, I recently received an e-mail from Javier Otero telling me he took what he learned from one of our Papervision3D trainings and used it to build out craftsman.com.
Amazing work Javier! Just imagine what YOU could do if you came to a Papervision3D training
It’s taken a while but I am very pleased to present the Big and Small website for the BBC! Myself and the team at Plug-in Media have been working really hard on this for a few months. There’s a full write up about it on my blog along, you can see the walkthrough on vimeo, or visit the site here.
I really would like to publicly thank everyone at Plug-in, it’s a real honour to work with such talented people!
CaT conference is around the corner, held on June 3 in New York it will gather creativity professionals and tech-side development companies for a discussion of furthering creativity through technology.
Organized by Creativity Magazine, the event will consist of presentations, discussions and A-list creative case studies, a gallery of tech products, and breakout rooms to provide hands on learning.
If you are in NYC you can’t miss it, the agenda covers the latest trends in interactive design, advertising, 3D, augmented reality and mobile.
I’m thrilled I’ll be representing the Papervision3D Team and Community in a discussion about Open Source with Ben Fry, Co-founder of Processing.
Hope you can make it.
