Flash…Back

Most of my work is done with Flash, I teach Flash, I breathe Flash, I am Flash. So here I am sitting at my desk at the Rival Schools wondering what will be the future Flash.

Steve Jobs said:
“Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.”

So if you take Flash out of the equation does the Flash guy die?

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Perhaps, or maybe he’s morphing into Superman. I believe Adobe needs to rethink or even translate Flash into HTML5. Thank God for me, I am not just a Flash Designer. I believe my title is “Señor Interactive Developer”. What does that mean? I make things, digital things, things that are interactive. If HTML5 or Flash Redux is the future, I am comfortable with that. One of the things that characterize Rival Schools is “Versatility”.

Lalala and Peace out.


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Music and the Mind

Animation, Design, Music, News | May 28, 2010

We’re currently working on a project for RIZ MC, a London based rapper / actor whose new album MICroscope melds together the conscious and subconscious, the government and the resistance, the music and the mind. It all takes place in a dark shadowy underground government agency – whose sole purpose is to investigate and document human neurological responses to different musical sequences. HEAVY DUTY AWESOMENESS.

Produced and Written by Swarm. Directed, Designed and Animated by Rival Schools.

www.RizMC.com/lab

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Bio-rad gets Whimsy

Animation | May 24, 2010

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Earlier on this year we put together an video that told the story of Bio-rad’s history.  The brief was to use a timeline to show the evolution of their products as a response to the needs of their customers.

Our first thought  - it’s about time that the electrophoresis business saw a little more whimsy.  To us, there isn’t any point in making people watch things they don’t want to watch.  The folks at Bio-Rad, being the excellent clients that they are, agreed.   The result was a successful exploration of design and storytelling.  And it’s fun, too.

The original timeline concept request from the client took to new heights in revealing Bio-Rad’s achievements.  If I were to push it a bit, I’d say it’s a classic retelling of the hero’s journey, except with a timeline pointer as the hero.

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Proxipedia – Technical Animations

Animation | August 31, 2009

Here are some sweet 3D animations made by proxonic for their medical and scientific animation project, “Proxipedia“.


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This Neigbourhood Is Boring – An Emotional Experiment

Animation | August 21, 2009

I just started up an album on Vimeo called “Emotional Experiments“. Neil was talking about starting one up and I’ve been itching to shoot and edit my own videos for a while. But as we all know, committing time to any self-motivated project can be tough to do sometimes.

It isn’t a masterpiece, but its an exercise on what I can shoot, edit, composite, color-correct and encode in about 4-5 hours. I didn’t use the steadycam, so the footage is pretty shaky. Shot on an HVX200 and used Final Cut, After Effects and Motion.

Check it out. I added a little surprise.


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