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What I have to put up with in the office…

Dom’s ukulele band have an impromptu rehearsal while I’m trying to program…

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Plug-in Media lead FlashForward into the VORTEX OF THE DAMNED!

Over the last few months we’ve been working like crazy little typing elves painstakingly crafting the new masthead for the FlashForward site. It’s such an honour to be asked, so we’ve put far more work into it than we allocated, in order to produce something we hope is a little bit special. 🙂 [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/ffbanner/ffbanner_local.swf” […]

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Plug-in Media site nominated for a Webby!

Amazing news this week that our site has been nominated for a Webby award this year. We put so much work into that site so to have it recognised by the industry is really rewarding. True to form, Plug-in’s creative director Dominic Minns, (the creative genius behind the mad ideas on the site), provided us […]

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Flash on the Beach review

Well it’s been a week, and I’ve been sooo busy I haven’t even had a chance to post a quick review of Flash on the Beach! We’re just at the negotiation stages of a HUGE Flash game, so watch this space for more information. Mario steals Dom’s ukulele (photo: Marc Thiele) It was an awesome […]

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Snowing screensaver – happy Christmas from Plug-in Media!

As a special Christmas gift, I’ve made a snowing screensaver for Plug-in Media to give away! I’ve been working on edge detection in images, so now the snow settles on the surface of objects in any bitmap : [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2006/snowscreensaverexample.swf” width=”450″ height=”330″ FVERSION=”8″ SCALE=”noborder” fvars=”imagename=/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/snowpicture3.jpg” /]Photo – Jorg Mueller So I thought it’d be fun […]

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Run for the hills! Plug-in Media has landed!

Filmed in PLUG-IN-O-VISION, it’s become the living, breathing manifestation of Frankenstinian innovation. Dare you enter and bear witness to Flash wizardry, actionscripting of monstrous proportions, terrifying illustration and insane creativity? Ahem. In other words, after months of development, and nearly 40,000 lines of code (I just counted!) the Plug-in Media site is finally finished! Just […]

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Simple real-time easing in Flash & 3D panels

I’m going to tell you all about the scary horror that has been programming the Plug-in Media news page. It’s been tricky to say the least, but then that’s probably my own fault because it was my idea to have realtime generated 3D news panels that float and flip to reveal each news story. It […]

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3D in Flash – Cel shading

[kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/3ddemo-cellshading.swf” width=”445″ height=”200″ FVERSION=”8″ SCALE=”noborder” /] It seems like weeks and weeks since we started developing the new Plug-in Media website. It’s like a huge alien organism from outer space, growing and growing out of control, not satisfied until it overtakes the Earth! Which is only to be expected, considering its 50s and 60s […]