Re: FN-FORUM: 3d / Flash developer.

date posted 16th April 2008 12:52

I've been playing around in Blender basically doing a copy of the GIF
you posted but the "impossible" effect is ruined by the lighting, it
highlights the sloped face on the back post - see GIF for reference... I
will play about with the lights position.. see if I can get anywhere
with that...

Sam M - www.wiredeyes.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I posted a while ago about a job I needed to outsource. The job involved
> creating a vector based (3d) animation in flash of an "Impossible" cube for
> use on a clients site, I also posted it to a couple of job boards and quite
> honestly I was blown away by how little response to the job postings I got,
> I expected at least a few "overseas" offers but really nothing and the
> people I did contact (even though no mention of budget was made) either
> couldn't do it or didn’t respond.
>
> That may have some indication of the speciality skills required to do the
> job or maybe it’s the time of year I don’t know.
>
> Anyway I'm giving it one last shot to see if anyone can provide the services
> and skills required. If you know anyone who is good at 3D and Flash
> animation please pass this on email on.
>
> - Job Spec -
>
> To create a 3D spinning cube in flash or more precisely an impossible cube
> (Preferably interactive but would settle for just an animation). The cube is
> part of a logo and will probably be fairly large on a splash page but may
> also be as part of the logo on each page. (This should be considered when
> developing)
>
> http://rtrs.wiredeyes.net/_dev/cube.gif (355k)
>
> The above is an animated graphic (.gif bitmap) supplied by the client to
> base it on, but the quality is bad and we would want something with 3D
> lighting effects (reflective) and as a vector based flash as it needs to
> load quickly but it should give anyone interested a very good idea of how
> the animation works. We also want options in the flash object to tell it to
> start animated or only animate on mouse over.
>
> The site with the logo showing can be seen at http://rtrs.wiredeyes.net/
>
> Regards
> Sam Morgan
>