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FuckHim-FuckHer is a devilishly funny net-art project by Matevž Klanjšek alias Hyperhandsome that lets you “vote for the most fuckable artist”.
Hyperhandsome: FuckHim-FuckHer
March 25th, 2004Polo Cool & Family
March 9th, 2004
Cool&Family is an edition of Polo with semi-automatic air-conditioning, so the ad featured penguins (the other obvious choice would be eskimos).
The goal of the game is to drop all the penguins into the car. Big ones throug the front doors and little ones throug the back doors. When there are too many of them inside, you have to turn up the cooling, so that they don’t run out.
I thought this project was going to be one more thing on the assembly line, but I had quite a few laughs animating the penguins and everybody went crazy for the game.
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Subrina
March 2nd, 2004
Subrina is one of those brands that just won’t give up. I remember it used to be the name of Ilirija’s hair conditioner back in socialist Yugoslavia. Acutally, the name Subrina was used as a synonym for hair-conditioner becuase it was the only one on the market. It has recently been redesigned and expanded into a whole hair product line including shampoos, styling gels and waxes, hair colors etc. By the way, if you need a really really really strong styling gel, try Ilirija’s Ehogel.
The idea for the site was to create an online simulation of a fashion magazine. I find it cool because it reminds me more of those magazines that you read while you’re waiting for your haircut at the Lassana hair salon. It features a product-line spread, make-overs, style tips, prize-winning opinion polls, desktops and so on. The plan was also to have all sorts of gadgets that you usually find in magazines, but all we ever did was the complimentary shampoo sample that’s glued to page 2 of the first 2 issues.
The issues are all designed manually in flash, but the system was devised so that the designer can add and update the content himself, without my help.
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Papibirint
February 13th, 2004
One of my favourite projects at Renderspace was this sequel to the ill-fated Papilonija game. Papibirint was done entirely in Flash 6 and its concept, design and gameplay was defined clearly from the start. It was also the project where Matevž as a designer, Marko as web programmer and I as Flash developer really hit it off as a team.
The objective was to make a fun and cute game that would also be somewhat educational. Based on Pac-Man, it’s a top-view maze game, where you have to collect coins and avoid traffic and bullies that steal your money. Since you can only carry around so much money, it’s necessary to deposit it at the cash machines regularly. That way, your money is also protected from the bullies, who can only steal what’s in your pockets. The pink piggy-bank carries bonus points if you answer a random question that tests your knowledge about banking. This has proven to be an effective way to motivate children to read through Papi’s website. When you have enough money at the bank, you can enter the store and buy the bike you’ve always wanted.
The game has 3 different environments, each with a different set of parameters. There’s the sunny environment, the night environment, where the visibility is low, but the bullies walk slower, and the winter room, where the visibility is high, but the ground is slippery.
For this game, I also created a level editor that exported a custom 2D map of codes and other information such as trajectories, character speed, friction, etc., which was then parsed by the game engine to dynamically draw the environment and characters.
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Vuk Ćosić: Art & Society
December 18th, 2003Description:
Art & Society examines the relationship between art and power by comparing the number of visitors of the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana against the number of visitors of the American Embassy in Ljubljana.
philtre: The Matrix Reloaded: Recut
October 27th, 2003Description:
An alternative cut of The Matrix Reloaded, which hopefully corrects some problems of the original release. Using only officially released material (the movie itself, video segments from Enter the Matrix, and the soundtrack), it offers a different viewing experience while keeping or even raising the integrity of the movie.
SiOL TV animated instructions
September 29th, 2003
SiOL TV is a service that provides “cable TV” over an ADSL connection. The installation can be a bit tricky, especially if you also use ADSL to connect to the internet. That’s where my animated instructons come in, showing you just how many cables you need to set the thing up.
At first, I thought of doing it with photos, so Saša P. and I did a photo session with all the components, but the photos really weren’t good enough, so I decided to do illustrations. Since the deadline was really tight, I had to do the illustrations and the whole animation over night. I used some heavy masking voodoo with all those plugs.
Later, my illustrations were also used by Pristop for the printed manual.
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Papilonija
August 28th, 2003
This is a 3D maze game that uses Renderspace’s nice 3D engine and it’s basically a first person non-shooter. You play the part of Papi, SKB’s mascot in the form of a piglet with wings, trying to collect enough money to buy a ball, a skate-board or a bicycle, while avoiding the city traffic.
I was just supposed to provide a simple Flash to count points, but in the end I had to handle the whole logic of the game based on the 3D engine’s collision messages.
At first, it was meant to be a CD-ROM and web based game, but there were so many problems with the 3D plugin and ultimately because Renderspace never renewed the plugin’s certificate, it was only done as a credit card size CD-ROM that was handed out as a present at the bank.
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Damijan Kracina: Proteusfont.org
July 25th, 2003Description
Proteusfont.org is a guestbook that displays its entries using Damijan Kracina’s Proteusfont typography.
The very nice and simple design, done by Ajdin, was rather easy to implement. The guestbook entries are parsed character by character, dynamically attaching Proteusfont glyphs to the display area.
Scandinavian crossword puzzle
July 1st, 2003
It’s very hard to make a good Scandinavian-style crossword in Flash.
In this attempt, there are a few nifty features. The clues can be enlarged by hovering over them with the mouse pointer. Clicking on an empty field sets the starting point for filling the blank spaces. Clicking on the same field repeatedly toggles the solving direction. The solution can be posted and eventually saved in a database for a prize draw.
The puzzle is entirely configurable through an external file, including the position and size of the picture.