We seem to be doing more and more video effects for presentations and promo cds and I have managed to find Video Co Pilot which has a load of great Adobe After Effects tutorials on the site for you to watch and download. You can also download the projects and assets for you to working along with while watching the tutorial!
Oh and I have also found that the Creative Cow is a great place for tutorials and help with After Effects.
This website makes great use of Google Maps to associate places by feelings. I think it’s a nice idea and will be interesting to see how it develops, once more social features are added to it.
Although it caused quite a bit of interest from gamers when it was announced back in March 2007 it has since been delayed a number of times. The free application allows user to create a custom avatar and ‘pad’ and then explore communal 3D worlds where they can chat to other users, play game, watch videos and arrange groups to play PS3 game online. It’s kind of second life combined with an xbox live style service. The service is free although some content (like extra clothes for you avatar) will cost.
There are themed environments based on recent and upcoming game. Areas like Red Bull Island allow you to play a virtual flying challenge. Paramount Studios will be showing trailers and interviews for films like Watchmen in the Home Theatre. Fashion label Diesel will offer up some trendy togs for you avatar while furniture designer Ligne Roset has all sorts of upholstery collections to make your ‘pad’ stand out from the crowd.
PlayStation Home could end up being an interesting new place to promote your brands (admittedly to an 18-30 male bias audience) but the jury is very much out in my opinion. While it all sounds like fun to begin with, whether most people actually want to explore 3D environments on there PS3 on a regular basis is yet to be seen. One to keep an eye on then.
In response to a fan video on youTube showing a glitch in the Tiger Woods golf game where the character can walk on water, EA have created this viral video using the real Tiger Woods.
Read Write Web reports on an interesting development by Facebook. Good news for users, but bad news for developers. It will make it a lot harder to create a popular application.
Coming hot on the heels of Google’s Open Social, Facebook has hit back with an ad platform for the social networking site. It allows brands to create their own pages as well as launching ads at a specific target audience. The idea is to allow users to grow brands rather than pushing it out to them.
Enough has been said about this site already. Absolutley stunning. What I love about it is all the little widgets you can download to your blog, like the one below, and the integration with social networking. It is a perfect example of how digital can do something no other medium can
I found this quite interesting, with some good examples of what makes good and bad presentations as well as some useful statistics and advice. It will be interesting to see how brands use Facebook in the future.
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