Labs Jaap Kooiker AKA Flashcoders - Flash, Flex, AIR, IPhone

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I finished working on a new partially flash website for EBBA (European Border Breakers Awards).
The site is nice combination between flash and HTML.

I must say it was really fun to do and I hope I get more opportunities to work on projects like this one!

Check out the result at : EBBA

(Only “Home” and “The winners” are flash)

The website Watwiljijmetwiet.nl (Dutch) from Tactus Verslavingszorg has won the Preffi-prijs 2009. theFactor.e has developed this website and I was one of the lead Flex developers.

Watwiljijmetwiet.nl is a site for prevention and decreasing of problematic cannabis usage. The site is mainly targeting people between 16 and 25 years of age. Watwiljijmetwiet.nl offers information, tips, but mainly a selftest and selfhelpprogram. Last year there where about 220.000 people using cannabis in the Netherlands.

The Preffi-prijs 2009 is an initiative of NIGZ and is handed out to the most promising project in the area of healthcare and illnessprevention.

This is one of the many products I’ve been working on in my spare -> spare -> spare time. It’s done totally free because it’s a local drumband wich can’t afford my hourly rate at the time (oh yeah, and my mother and sister are members of the band :) ).
Anyway this site is in Dutch and has no translation at the time. But the main idea will get clear when you see it.

Because this is a site with no hard deadline or cost target, I could spend my time learning new stuff and try something (almost) new (for me).
I have used 3d max to make a 3D environment and render the whole. Oh my god…I didn’t remember it was so complicated after the last - and only - time I used it four years ago.
Oh well… after a decade (it seemed like it) of tutorials and reading I started to make some 3D models and maps. The basic idea was to create some kind of an old hangar in wich the band does it’s practicing. I do realize I’m no expert (and maybe never will be) but I think the end result is pretty good.
After creating the hangar and stuff inside I went and created some camera’s and started to aminate the cam trough the hangar. This resulted in a flying cam from a fixed spot to the top of a specific bin and open the contents.
Making the camera go back after clicking home gives it some extra interactive feeling. One thing I intend to improve is when a bin is clicked and a book is showing, it needs to use all the screen width. This way (in case of large enough resolution) scrolling is not needed.

The final contents are not set yet… Let me know what you think of this beta release…

Edit:
Final Version : http://totallosameland.nl

Jaap Kooiker