While browsing this site i came across another awesome flash movie, which in turn led me on to the video i embedded. The site is designed in flash and looks very nicely designed, however i don't think its been kept up to date as the top news article displayed is 2006, but other then that i like the layout of the site.
Now continueing with my flash theme i found a nice animation, CATMAN was created by Ryosuke Aoike a Japanese flash animator. The stories are about a solitary, easy going cat who thinks that something is wrong in his life.
This was Ryosuke Aoike's first flash animation series which proved a huge success in Japan with more than 6million views on Atomshockwave just for one of his videos. In total their are 15 episopdes of CATMAN, 2 secert episodes and 1 music video. In 2003 the CATMAN series also won the GRAFIKA design festival prize for Best Digital Animation. CATMAN Series1 Ep1
Link to 'Blind' offical music video for the song the film which got more that 6million views in japan and was nominated for the best music clip over the year in 2002.
Well theres talk were doing flash in the coming weeks and i don't really know how i found this on youtube but i think its pretty awesome, its from Japan. If i could of found a site hosting the swf i would of posted it rather than embed the youtube video.
But like i said its from Japan the main character this small cat and the video makes perfect logical sense, maybe if i serched some more i'd find out the name of the cat but theres alot of youtube videos with it in and other character, still pretty awesome animation and i really like the video.
Its popular in Japan and it was just by chance i found this.
Wonderwall is a website set up to displaythe interior design studio run by Masamichi Katayama. The website is different to how it displays work having a big grid structure stretching the length of the page, and when the mouse hovers over a any image changing its form and playing a water drop sound which gets a bit repative. The structure also remembers the users click history and changes the form, it kind of tilts the grid to an angle its a nice feature but it also messes up the text at the bottom which is abit annoying if you wished to read it, you would have to tilt your head if you really wanted to read it. When a image is clicked on it loads another page giving a description and a link to further information.
I really like the way this website displays the work and like how the formal grid structure changes into a more fluid object when the mouse is present.Very innovative design and keeps the user at the website even if their not reading the content .
