Code Challenge: Interactive Peacock!
It’s time for another ActionScript 3 Code Challenge. Oops, make that AS3 HTML5 WEBGL SVG CSS3 JavaScript Code Challenge! Can your tech build this? Yup, that’s right, I welcome you all to take a stab....
View ArticlePeacock Challenge Solution AKA How to Toggle the Direction of a TimelineMax
The Interactive Peacock Challenge is over. Got some great submissions and, as always, some folks went above and beyond. Come on in to see how its done. Full Solution Explanation Video...
View ArticleTweenLite-Powered Tile Transitions for Grid Building and Masking
Just wanted to provide you guys with a sound starting point for building grids and more importantly animating them in clever ways. I’m going to do a quick rundown in the video and leave you with a few...
View ArticleLet’s Slam a Whole Mess of Items (without Instance Names) Inside a Movie Clip...
Here I have a mash-up of 3 very useful techniques: Create an array of all children inside any Movie Clip or DisplayObjectContainer Shuffle that array Animate all the items in that array in sequence And...
View ArticleFlash Generative Art Driven by TimelineMax and Some Funky Blending
I had 20 minutes to kill last night while waiting for Google Analytics to update. I asked myself, “Self, wouldn’t it be fun to just play around and try to hammer the crap out of the Flash Player?” I...
View ArticleUse BlitMask’s Wrap Feature for Easy Bitmap Scrolling and Looping.
The swf above illustrates 32 BlitMasks running simultaneously. The slick performance absolutely stomps any other method available for moving so many bitmaps at the same time. Silky, smooth and totally...
View ArticleSnorklReport: Big News!
Hey folks, Just wanted to check in and give you a little inside scoop on what’s going on at snorkl.tv and give you some stuff to play with. Usually these SnorklReports are about traffic and such. This...
View ArticleAS3 Code Challenge: Orbital
The Challenge Make a swf that does exactly this: scale of orbital path continually pulses click to change direction of orbit scale of green orb does not change Get those brains going… Video Containing...
View ArticleWhy the Death of Flash Player on Mobile Makes Me Feel Like David Hasselhoff
In 1994, Hasselhoff was scheduled to perform a concert on pay-per-view from Atlantic City. The concert was expected to help reignite his singing career in the United States. However, on the night of...
View ArticleOrbital Challenge: Solution!
The Orbital Challenge was a big hit. Thanks so much for all the submissions. Take a look inside to see the solution and find out if you are the random winner! The Challenge See the Solution in Action...
View ArticleSnorkl.tv Latest and Greatest: ActiveTuts+, BitmapTileGrid, PuzzleBuilderPro...
BitmapTileGrid Demo: Hey Guys and Gal, I know its been awhile since I’ve posted anything. There has been a lot going on. I put together a little video that is jam-packed with a little news, recent...
View ArticleNew Custom Class for Grow and Colorize Effect
I’m thrilled to introduce to you my AS3 GrowAndColorizeItem class. Can you guess what it does? Come take a peak inside and I’ll show you how easy it is to implement in your own projects. Watch the...
View ArticleCode Challenge: GridSplitter
Time for a new code challenge open to both ActionScript and JavaScript developers! This challenge is going to be fairly easy for those of you who have followed this blog closely, but I guarantee it...
View ArticleGridSplitter: Solution
The GridSplitter challenge is over. I enjoyed receiving and reviewing all the AS3 and JS solutions. Take a peek inside to see how it was done. Roll over the grid above to see the final result. The...
View ArticleIntroducing the SlowMo Ease in GreenSock Animation Platform v12
I am hugely excited to introduce you to the new SlowMo ease! This ease is a total game-changer and will make it insanely easy to create animations that were previously very tedious and awkward. The...
View ArticleSlowMo Ease with yoyoMode
I have an exciting update for you regarding GreenSock’s SlowMo ease. There is a new feature called yoyoMode which allows you to easily synchronize fade, de-blur and other effects with positional SlowMo...
View ArticleFun Vector Butterfly Flash Animation
Here’s a little departure from the norm. Just want to share with you a little butterfly animation that I whipped together. I grabbed a static butterfly and simply animated the wings in a self-contained...
View ArticleGreenSock v12 Beta Released: JavaScript Preview
It’s finally here! GreenSock has just released the GreenSock Animation Platform v12 BETA (GSAP v12). The big news is that GSAP has now been ported to JavaScript. I know tons of you have been waiting...
View ArticleBanner-style Animation with GreenSock-powered JavaScript
I have a really fun and stylish demo of banner-style javascript animation for you. The main player here is TimelineLite from GreenSock’s tangy Javascript port. I created this demo to try to prove to...
View ArticleThe Long Road to Building an Interactive Peacock without Flash
Breaking News: As the tectonic plates of technology continue to shift beneath our very feet snorkl.tv unleashes more evidence of the growing potential of javascript-based animation. Rumor has it that...
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