Remco’s band The Parlandos has just finished a new CD, you can listen to it on their myspace page. Also, they will be playing live on Dutch radio (Radio 6) on Saturday March 6th (14:00 local time). So check it out! I’ve worked with Remco on several projects these past years and he always amazes me with [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Remco de Waard
Posted in Animations, Eiland, Remco de Waard, Tobias Schalken on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Astronaut and Isidore
Posted in Animations, Books, E-books, Flash, Remco de Waard, Simone Ruitenbeek on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Astronaut and Isidore is a children’s book that I’ve made together with Simone Ruitenbeek. I’ve tried to convert the book to flash in two different ways: Here you can see it as an animation. Voice over by Hans Ruitenbeek (only in Dutch…). The intro music is by Remco de Waard performed by the Parlandos. Here you [...]
The Leader of People
Posted in Animations, E-books, Eiland, Flash, Webcomic on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Leader of People was the first comic (click here to see the comic) in which I tried to keep the flash conversion more like a reading experience. Which basically means all you can do is click on next. This might sound a bit boring but what I find interesting is that this allows the reader to [...]
Tool: Scaling only up to 100%.
Posted in Actionscript, Flash, Tools on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a somewhat boring tool; but it might come in handy for some. When publishing your flash project (that is: showing it in a web browser) you can choose between pixel or percent. With percent your flash movie gets scaled to fit in your browser. Which I like when the browser window is smaller then the movie. But I [...]
Instructions the minigame
Posted in Actionscript, Flash on February 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I also tried to use the theme of Instructions (see this post) for a different game. With a sort of LCD-game aesthetic (I tend to like the aesthetics of old video games). You can try to get a high score (but the Winkster is pretty unbeatable.) Click here to play.
Instructions
Posted in Actionscript, Animations, Eiland, Flash, Webcomic on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this animation you can control the main character with your keyboard. Gradually you gain more control (Commodore Amiga-owners may recognize some sounds from IK+ ). The animation was based on this comic, that will be published in the forthcoming Eiland #5 (summer 2010). Click here to read and play.
Overpopulation
Posted in Actionscript, Animations, Flash on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This was one of my first actionscript tests. I just wanted to try to program a simple creature with some simple behavior. What resulted was kind of like a very inefficient sorting algoritme. Press on the plus sign to add creatures. It is also possible to drag and drop the creatures. Click here to play [...]
Constructions
Posted in Animations, Eiland, Flash, Remco de Waard on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was asked by Rhinocéros contre Éléphant, a French comics magazine, to do a comic about mathematics. This lead to the story Constructions, which is based on a text concerning the theories of the Dutch mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer. Again music by Remco de Waard. Click here to watch the animation.
Allow to infuse
Posted in Animations, Eiland, Flash, Remco de Waard on February 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This animation is based on this comic that I made for Comix 2000 (a comic book that was published by L’ Association in 1999, containing 2000 pages of wordless comics depicting the work of 324 authors from 29 different countries). This was my first try at converting one of my comics to a (flash) animation. I asked Remco de Waard to [...]
