Fonts and the internet
There are two sure fire way of using fonts. The first one is to use the built in fonts available on OS X and Windows. You can find the complete list here: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html But if you are looking for more than this you will have to use Cufon. There are a few other packages out there but Cufon works... Read More »
Understanding the web page
Trying to conceptualize browsers and the internet can be a daunting thing. The hardest part to deal with is the browser and all the flavors of them that are out there. To think of dealing with a browser I like to think of the story of the painter. Read More »
Google Speech API
Google added an unoffical text to speech API that you can access with a simple query string and it will reply with an MP3 file. you can copy this url into a browser http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=jason+mcalpin+is+cool. You can change it to say anything you want. Give it a try with the field below Read More »
Aeon 3D Actor
Aeon was one of my first 3D actors I used in shorts and for animation test. Read More »
Webster Bank Flash Banners
These are two Webster Bank flash banners I created for their ad campaigns Read More »
Tatya 3D Actress
Tatya is a Lightwave 3D model. A Simple actress for my animated shorts. Tatya is an evolved version of the Dominique model used in the Whoops Short for the CGTalk Challenge. Here is a walk using a new render technique to get a grafitti/urban feel. Below are some rigging test videos you can play with to see her rig... Read More »
Qtrax Website
Qtrax is a free music player that plays ad based music streamed from the web. I worked on this international site developing multiple language versions simultaneously. Read More »
Stephanie Huckabee Website
This site was created as a custom template on wordpress. Read More »
3D Characters for Poker Game
These are 3D characters created for an online poker game built in Flash. Creation and renders were created in Poser and Lightwave. Read More »
AFG Website
This website was created in coordination with Avrett Free and Ginsberg. Art Direction by Yucel Erdogan. Read More »
To HTML or XHTML that is the question, isn’t it
With HTML 5 coming into use even as I write this it seemed like a good time to look over the various document definitions I may be calling on when coding webpages. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The standard beginning to to XHTML 1.0 Strict documents. This is the standard DOCTYPE used across the... Read More »
Links to gaming sites
http://www.rsart.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://www.realtimecg.com/ http://boards.polycount.net/ubbthreads.php Read More »
AFG Website
This website was created in coordination with Avrett Free and Ginsberg. Art Direction by Yucel Erdogan. Read More »
Webster Bank Flash Banners
These are two Webster Bank flash banners I created for their ad campaigns Read More »
3D Characters for Poker Game
These are 3D characters created for an online poker game built in Flash. Creation and renders were created in Poser and Lightwave. Read More »
Stephanie Huckabee Website
This site was created as a custom template on wordpress. Read More »
Your Master Habit
happiness is a direct result of how much control we have over our environment, and control is directly correlated with how well we’re able to form and maintain positive habits Read More »
KODU – EKG Respawner
For those of you new to the latest Xbox Community game Kodu, it is a game creation engine that allows you to build using a simple modular system that is fun to work with. Having built a few games in it I thought I would share solutions to some of the more complex techniques used in other games. The... Read More »
imbed your flash fonts
Flash allows you to imbed the fonts along with the rest of your media. This makes sure everyone working on the file has the same font. It allows Windows and Macs the same access to the flash file. Even more importantly it allows you to name the font so that you know its usage. Even more importantly than that... Read More »
CSS Expressions
I've come across expressions in CSS style sheets and decided to investigate if they really were as powerful as they seem... Read More »
