A parallax effect in Flash using a sushi bar as the theme. This parallax uses a timer at the start, to let the user know that there is movement in the movie clip, after 2 seconds, the control of the parallax is switched to the X position of the mouse. The X position also controls the speed in which the parallax is moved, increasing as the mouse gets further away from the centre. I put in a lot of thought of trying to incorporate interactive features, namely a button in the parallax. (i.e. When the user scrolls to a certain section, a…
The Spenders Report MPU
Created as an MPU for a fictional luxury lifestyle blog “The Spenders Report”. This MPU features a carousel which dynamically pulls in the thumbnail, title, description and link. It has been designed in such away that it would pull in and populate the 5 most recent items from the XML list when the ad unit is served.
Buffalo Nutrition
Client: Buffalo Nutrition Website: BuffaloNutrition.co.uk Project Details: Buffalo Nutrition is one of London’s premier sports nutrition specialists, established for just over 10 years now, supplying nutritional supplements to clients from all the local gyms with expertise and a personalised service. I joined Buffalo Nutrition as a Project Manager for the Website Development, this meant corresponding with the ecommerce-php developers, graphic designers and bringing the website to an online and ready state. Payment Gateway The client uses several payment methods that customers could choose to use, including: paypal, sagepay or even cash. These payment methods all needed to be tested thoroughly…
MTV Art Break Sound Design Study
This is a short sound design study using an art break from the MTV channel.
iTV Digital Text Sound Design Study
This was a surround sound study I created using an iTV Digital Text clip, focussing on sounds travelling past the ears in 5.1* All the sounds are taken from recordings by myself in the studio, or on location using a ZOOM H4. *Unfortunately, YouTube only uses L&R channels!
Johnnie Walker Paintings Sound Design Study
Johnnie Walker adverts have always been very creative and enjoyable. I wanted to create a sound design/track for the Johnnie Walker Paintings Advert.
Kulintangan
I created this project as I really wanted to do something that related from my paternal heritage of Sabah. Sabah is one of the 13 states of Malaysia, which very much has its own distinct culture and style of music. I wanted to base this project on the Kulintangan, a set of brass gong instruments, used in many Kadazan-Dusun festivals and ceremonies. However, not having any access to a full Kulintangan set, I used the University of Hertfordshire’s Javanese Gamelan set. With this project, I also wanted to implement Google Analytics event tracking, and so I added a pageTrack when…
FaderToy
The FaderToy was a short project to create an interactive piece using AS2.0. I based the project around the Faderboard, a multi-sampling/MIDI controller made in collaboration by Vestax and Korg. Vestax provided the hardware, while the sound engine and effects unit were supplied by Korg (specifically, the chips built in the Electribe Series). The Faderboard is a visionary combination of melodic and percussive instruments with advanced mixing, sampling and effects control features that offers a completely new and original approach to creative music production and performance. Vestax The FaderToy, is a very simplified version of the Faderboard, it uses 8…
Gregor
Gregor is a short 2D animation film about an evil crow that captures ladybirds and “mechanizes” them to do his bidding and the struggle of one brave ladybird bid for freedom. The animation was created as a final year project by Giuliano Di Gregorio with a collaborative effort from the music department. With the help of Lia Dimou who created the sound track, Tunde Ogunleye and I created the sound effects of the project. Almost all of the sounds you here were recorded and manipulated by myself, using granulation synthesis, spectral morphing and freezing. While doing this project, we all…
Granulating Synthesizer
This project was created using Max/MSP an “interactive graphical programming environment for music, audio and media.” The basics of this project is a granulating synthesizer, which breaks down an audio file in to tiny little samples called grains, hence “granulating”. Think of the difference between a sugar cube, and ordinary free-flow sugar, the cube is the audio file, each granule is a sample. To add some element of interaction for the user, I used a whitespace board that would draw colouful grains as the user draws on the board, each movement would generate a sound, the speed of the sound…