After the peaceful underwater world of Unsere Ozeane, our newest project for Universum returns us to the hail of bullets again in the form of From Paris with Love, the action-packed new film starring John Travolta as the unorthodox secret agent Charlie Wax.
At least as awesome and entertaining as the movie is the online-campaign (including concept development, website design and banner campaign) produced by GSDH. The official movie site includes the trailer, an exciting gallery and a reminder service, as well as background information about the story, characters and cast which will provide the user with insights into the high-action world of secret agents. There are great downloadable goodies like the From Paris with Love Screensaver (get it here).
The result is a site which fully captures the action-packed spirit and style of this film: Welcome to Paris, Baby!

Check out: www.frompariswithlove.de

GAMER, the latest science fiction masterpiece by Universum Film, will be in German cinemas in January. The opening of the movie will be supported by the official movie site – conceived and designed by GSDH. This amazing flash website will help to build anticipation for this upcoming action spectacle.

Just like the movie, the website encompasses three different worlds. Game - the malicious shooter game entitled “Slayer”, where real prisoners are used by gamers as avatars to fight each other to death. The second world Society – also uses mind-control technology. This world is a shrill, decadent and unscrupulous virtual society. The third world is Reality – the real world, in which millions of people follow the controversial games.

Leading actor Gerard Butler as Kable and his wife Angie, played by Amber Valletta, are both captured in the games and are struggling to escape from them.

The user can navigate between those three worlds and experience different exciting flash designs while he browses through the gallery, has a look behind the scenes or discovers all the special goodies. Next to the homepage we will also be responsible for inGame advertising and banner campaigns.

Check out www.gamer-derfilm.de

Good Flash programmers are not easy to find, with many companies scrambling to find their own Actionscript virtuosos. This makes us even happier about the first-rate talents that we have secured in our team. As one can never be 100% prepared for what the future holds, we are always watching out for fresh talents in this field.

We have kept SwitchOn(Training) as our little secret when it comes to sourcing good Flash programmers, but have now decided to let the world know about this excellent establishment! SwitchOn(Training) is a Flash and Actionscript school in Cape Town that is dedicated and passionate about improving the quality of Flash training in the local Flash community.

As we are located in Cape Town, it has always been easy to convince programmers from around the world to move here to be part of our dynamic team. That said, we really do appreciate the local development and are looking forward to seeing many talented graduates!

Great news for the Flash community: Google added an upgrade to its indexing capabilities which improves the search quality of Flash tremendously. Previously external content loaded in by a SWF file has not been identified by Google. With this latest upgrade all this content also appears in Google search results.

We are very happy to see Google making such important changes to their excellent search engine. With the improvements of Flash indexing, GSDH expects Google to continue its service competencies making the web even more eventful, dynamic and exciting.

Specializing in Flash, GSDH is proud to offer the next level in design and programming.

Read the official Google Blog entry here

Whether you’re in Koblenz, New York, Geneva or Hongkong -TRAFFIC Communications’ home is all over the world. That´s why we used a TRAFFIC skyline as the theme for the recent revamp of the internet presence of this successful full-service advertising agency. The dynamic flash application displays the showcase of clients, projects and campaigns in a slick, clean and modern look - which is liked all over the world!

see www.TRAFFIC-communications.de skyline

GSDH was approached by Kochan & Partner, Munich, to realize an informative website for FH Coburg, university of applied sciences. The central theme behind the website is to make students feel at home, so all information is displayed through handy magazines which are placed on a typical student desk.
Kochan & Partner’s innovative graphics, in combination with our Flash know-how, resulted in an imaginative, easy to navigate and informative website. Click here to visit the site.

Für GSDH Blog-Leser wird der Frühbucherrabatt für die RIA World verlängert:

Penton Media GmbH:

“RIA World am 23./24. Juni im Internationalen Congress Center München
- Sonderkonditionen für die Web 2.0 – Entwicklerkonferenz -

Die RIA World findet vom 23. – 24. Juni im ICM in München statt. Das Programm zur diesjährigen Web 2.0 – Entwicklerkonferenz steht fest. Alle Details zu den Referenten und dem Programm finden Sie im Programmflyer zum download oder auf der Webseite unter www.riaworld.de.

Erleben Sie unsere zehn Top-Referenten an zwei Tagen in verschiedenen Tracks (Impuls/Advanced) und vier halbtägigen Workshops zum Thema „Rich Internet Applications“. Der 23. Juni bietet Ihnen einen Querschnitt durch die Welten der RIA-Entwicklung mit Microsoft, Adobe oder Sun. Vertiefen Sie Ihr Wissen in den halbtägigen Workshops am 24. Juni zu den Themen Silverlight 2 – Essentials, interaktiven Applikationen mit JavaFX, Flex Essentials und RIA Applikationen auf Apple’s iPhone…”

Die komplette Pressemeldung und den Rabattcode gibt es hier.

GSDH was approached by PHILIPS Healthcare for a new internet presence for the 90th Roentgen Convention. The large medical convention takes place from the 20th to the 23rd of May and provides advanced training opportunities, workshops and scientific speeches. The convention has attracted over 7000 visitors in the last few years.
GSDH has created a microsite for Philips which presents the newest techniques and machines for the Roentgen Convention.

GSDH would like to thank Philips for the great collaboration, and we’re looking forward to future collaborations.

www.philips.de/Roentgenkongress

With almost 340.000(!) visitors in German theaters during the first 4 days, the new Jason Statham Action movie Crank2 - for which we produced the official website and the online banner campaign - impressively and unerringly jumped to number 1 on the German theatre charts! This makes Crank2 the most successful of all Jason Statham’s forerunner movies (Crank, Transporter 1-3) for the first weekend showing…

Harald Linsenmeier, an exceptional copywriter and creative director, approached GSDH to code his online showcase. The award winning work diplayed include video and print ads for big names like Audi, Opel and Coca Cola…

Check out www.hlfreelance.de

The long wait is over! GSDH has just launched the Flash website for the very successful celebrity and fashion photographer Ugo Richard.
It was such a pleasure to work with Ugo Richard, and we at GSDH had a lot of fun working on this project. Ugo is extremely happy with his new presence on the web, stating that the website measures up to the same high standard as his work.

Click here to see the site.

On Tusday the 19th of Auguth the new Flex User Group Munich is gathering for the first time. We are meeting at Master’s Home for a beer or two. If you are interested, come join us…

Looking forward to meet everyone for the first time!

The whole world is desperately looking for flashers and GSDH now has one more of them.

Chris relies on not less than 15 years of work experience. As an art director for several big agencies in Cologne you can’t beat his knowledge of print and web design.

But after a while everything static becomes boring. That is why Chris decided to not only play around with Flash but to turn it into the main focus of his career. Thanks a lot for this wise decision! It can not get dynamic enough for Chris, but luckily the possibilities in Flash are endless in this regard…

Chris’ drive to the new and unknown recently inspired him to grab his wife and dogs in Germany to look for a new challenge in Cape Town. Or maybe it was the mountain that was calling him, because when he isn’t programming you will find Chris climbing it…

Let Gong Li, Shu Qi and Joan Chen take you on a beautiful journey through their Hong Kong, Bejing and Shanghai. Amazing atmosphere, great images and music. Worth a visit!

Louis Vuitton Soundwalk

For whoever doesn’t know about it yet:

Alternativa platform has launched!

Announcement on their blog.

GSDH designed and developed a completelly dynamic XML and ActionScript 3 driven Flex application for Kneipp.

The application is a tool that allows users to pick a certain health-indication group (e.g. pregnancy) via a intuitive & innovative navigational concept. In a next step the visitor can pick the most important vitamins and minerals within this indcation group and learns about nutritional facts and Kneipp products which will supplement in that particular field.

The development of the tool was real fun and the tool itself turned out really well!

Check out the “Nutritional Circle” here

Most of you will probably know this Flash / AS3 3D physics engine already but I thought I’d share it for the Flashprogrammer who likes 3D and doesn’t yet…

From the site:

“WOW-Engine is a free AS3 physics engine by Seraf ( Jérôme Birembaut ) capable to handle positions in a 3D environmentand it is open source.

WOW-Engine uses the Sandy library for the 3D mathematical computations (matrix, 3D vector, plane). The inner architecture of the engine is also inspired by Sandy’s one.

Collisions and physical reactions are possible thanks to the AS3 physic engine made by Alec Cove, named APE (version 0.2.). APE is a 2D physic engine, it is possible to extend the contraints on volumes, and that’s the purpose of WOW-engine. WOW-engine extends APE, and allows to simulate physics on 3D volumes.

WOW-Engine is capable to handle positions and rotations of abstract objects, which need to be linked to some visual objects (2D or 3D). The visual objects can be drawn thanks to another library (Sandy3D , Papervision3D, Away3D for 3D).

WOW-Engine uses and depends of the Data Structures classes written by polygonal labs.“

Click here to read more, check cases and further development

For my actual project (a Camel Race for Philips) i had to search for a function which translates a flash.utils.date object into a calendar-week int. After a while of searching i found a coole one and i translated it into AS3. Maybe someone can use this one

function getCW(target:Date):int {
	var a = target.getFullYear();
	var m = target.getMonth()+1;
	var j = target.getDate();
	var S = Math.floor(a/100);
	var A = a%100;
	var aB = (a%4 == 0 && a%100 != 0) || (a%1000 == 0) ? 1 : 0;
	var jNA = (5*S+Math.floor(S/4)+A+Math.floor(A/4)+aB*6)%7;
	var w = Math.floor((jNA+(m == 1 ? j : m == 2 ? 31+j : Math.floor((30.6*m)-32.3)+j+aB*1)+5)/7)-Math.floor(jNA/5);
	return w == 0 || w == 53?1:w;
}

For my last Project i had to send some variables from my Flash-app via AS3 to a PHP script, this script handles the next Steps of processing. (Unfortunately) I had to search for a solution which not produces a PopUp Window (critical because of the PopUp-blockers) for a long time. The AS3 function flash.net.sendToUrl() produces mystical error messages at compile-time.

However, i stared to use the load() method from the URLLoader Class as seen in the below-mentioned snippet. With this method you can send data to PHP scripts and the user doesnt recognize it. But be aware: the data will be send via HTTP-GET, that means that you shouldnt use it to send critical data (such as passworts, credit-card details). Within the PHP script you can get the Data with the $_GET[] array (in the snippet the vars myname and email).

Another advantage is that you can get result-variables from your PHP script (e.g. status-messages). For this you have to add an EventListener to the URLLoader-Object, you can access the data through the Event-Object in the EventHandler.

Code-Snippet:

function sendData():void{
var myrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("send.php"); //create a URLRequest Object and
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables;         //the name of the PHP-script
var myPhpLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
variables.myname = outro.name.text; //content of a textfield
variables.email = outro.email_adresse.text; //content of a textfield
myrequest.data = variables;
myrequest.method = URLRequestMethod.GET; //via HTTP-GET
myPhpLoader.load(myrequest); //send
}

TweenFilterLite (AS3 Version) - Easily Tween Filters & Image Effects

I found a new Tweenig Class called “TweenFilterLite” as i searched for a way to animate TextField.
Till now i used the Tweener Class which can be found at the GoogleCode page. But this class can only animate Sprites, if you want to animate a TextField, the app crashes at runtime.

The concept of TweenFilterLite is different. With this class you can animate any kind of displayable objects. And so the main advantage (in my opinion) is that you can animate every child of DisplayObject without nesting it in a Sprite or a MovieClip etc.

A another advantage is that you can place several animation types (blur, fade, glow etc) in a queue and the class runs it one after the other. That means that you dont have to write onComplete functions for every animation (reduces code size and improves readability).

The Class has a very good documentation and, of course, is easy to understand. For further information (code examples, source, doc, small howTo) take look at the website: http://blog.greensock.com/tweenfilterliteas3/

Have a try!

Check out this Flash / 3D rendering engine by alternativa platform in Russia - awesome! Almost feels like playing Doom back in the days…

More examples here.

First seen on mr. doob’s blog.