Matt Watier » Flash and AS3

IBIS – Design Comps.

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:08:20 +0000

I always love designs before they go to the higher ups. Usually it means designs are cleaner more cutting edge and more marketing focused. At this point designers have free reign over what it should look like and what it should sell. The design process is slightly ignorant to the legal issues or information that needs to be supplemented that drags it more back toward center. The greatest dream for designers right at this point is to “WOW”. If the designer can make a statement the design will be a benchmark that will win confidence that the marketing is heading in the right direction. If the designer and design win this crucial battle the client is more comfortable to leave you with the freedoms you have started with and the gravity of “center” will not affect the project. I proudly present the early designs for IBIS.

Below are some comps from the website and flash application that explains the IBIS – Integrated Building Information Services. In general it is a complicated sell that when I was brought on took 2 guys, 3 PowerPoint presentations, and a few hours to explain to me. We have bottle the concept into this. “It is a way to know about a faculty which includes building, people and assets from conception to renovation.” The flash application combines of data visualizations with default GUI presentations of technologies explains how IBIS can help simplify the complexity of 1000+ occupancy buildings.

Having Fun With Flash. 3d Banner Ad.

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:47:43 +0000

A bit of R&D and flash fun. A banner for a Washington DC Condo the Vista.

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Merrick Towle Co.

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:00:05 +0000

My company is Merrick Towle Communications which a PR company for the Real Estate Business. I work as there primary flash developer. I do a a lot of galleries, interactive maps and maybe the most challenging is the building tours. The building tour is in most basic form an interactive gallery of floor plans and its most complex is an interactive search tool that allows per unit inspection of the entire complex. Maybe one of my first building tour was for the Met Gramercy Property

This building tour had some interesting challenges. The three biggest challenges where.

10 unique keyplans (floors of the building)
over 50 unique floor plans (designs of the rooms)
and 400+ Units in the building.

The 50 unique floor plans was a problem because the informational feed of data could only hold 25 floor plans so we had to re-edit the information after it came into the system. It was a great challenge and I am proud of it considering it is one the the first building tours I built for Merrick Towle.

The Met Gramercy Building Tour – Located in Pentagon City, Virginia

Landing Page

Loading Screen

Level Selection

Unit Selection

Zoom Feature (Considering the size of the building and the usable space that was alotted for the flash application I had to build in a zoom feature to give the visitor a proper viewing of the key plan)

Stumbling on the Small Things

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:20 +0000

So today I am starting my first training for a professional coding. It is nothing great or even something super advanced. But I am really excited that I am learning the basics of AS3. I have gotten pretty good at AS2 and for some reason every time I have tried to pick up AS3 I have had issues. It might be the fact that I might have missed some small thing back when I should have learned code or it could be that the Code is so close but so radically different in the more basic of elements. I am truly excited to move on considering I have learned about many of the new features that this language has. So wish me luck on my first training. I hope I am not too bored.