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