[{"category":"work","items":[{"ID":"209","post_date":"2010-08-06 23:11:14","post_content":"TONTON is an online video portal for a Malaysian TV network. I lead a team of 5 flash developers to build the site within a fairly tight timeframe. Features of the site include encrypted secure multi-bitrate video streaming, in player advertising, an ad delivery system, tv schedule and the ability to create playlists. The site was built on RobotLegs AS3 framework. \r\n(development)","post_title":"TONTON","post_status":"publish","post_name":"tonton","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/209","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tonton01.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tonton02.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tonton03.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tonton04.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tonton05.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tonton06.jpg"}]},{"ID":"202","post_date":"2010-04-04 21:58:39","post_content":"Viocorp developed the video portal for the Sydney Opera House and I was involved with building the flash elements. This included a feature panel, an interactive media menu and the video\/image\/audio player. It was an interesting project to work on.\r\n(development)","post_title":"Sydney Opera House","post_status":"publish","post_name":"sydney-opera-house","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/202","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/soh01.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/soh02.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/soh03.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/play.sydneyoperahouse.com\/"}]},{"ID":"220","post_date":"2010-03-10 15:28:59","post_content":"I was hired by Leo Burnett to build a cms driven credentials site to showcase their client work. The site features the ability to quickly create campaigns and then build custom showcases from those campaigns assets. Image, swf and fla assets can be uploaded through a simple interface. The cms will create a unique url with an optional password and google analytics. The CMS features a drag and drop edit environment to make it easy to quickly compile a credentials presentation. Designs for the front end were supplied and I designed the CMS.\r\n(some design & development)","post_title":"Leo Burnett - Showcase","post_status":"publish","post_name":"leo-burnett-showcase","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/220","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leo012.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leo021.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leo031.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leo041.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leo051.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/showcase.leoburnett.com.au"}]},{"ID":"187","post_date":"2010-02-18 21:35:00","post_content":"The Art Gallery of NSW approached us to build the online gallery for Art Express 2010 - a NSW Art Prize for Year 12 students. The Project was designed Jo at the Art Gallery. The animations were designed for high performance - by doing a swipe across the screen only a fraction of the total area is being animated. Animations were also triggered from timeline shape animations.\r\n(development)","post_title":"ArtExpress2010","post_status":"publish","post_name":"artexpress2010","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/187","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.insideartexpress.com.au\/"}]},{"ID":"216","post_date":"2010-02-06 23:11:20","post_content":"I have been maintaining an online pay calculator for the last 3 years. In the last year it has really started getting a strong following and is being used by a number of accountants. I also have adwords in it and pull in a nice bit of pocket money each month. In addition to the site I also built a google widget. The next iteration is going to be an iPhone app - as soon as I have earned enough money from it to buy mac mini.\r\n(design & development)","post_title":"paycalculator.com.au","post_status":"publish","post_name":"paycalculatorcomau","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/216","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pay01.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pay011.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pay02.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.paycalculator.com.au"}]},{"ID":"175","post_date":"2009-02-17 23:25:07","post_content":"This site features a 3D carousel to display xml managed content based on category filters.\r\n(design & develpoment)","post_title":"Pulse Marketing","post_status":"publish","post_name":"pulse-marketing","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/175","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pulse_1.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pulse_2.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pulse_3.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.pulsemarketing.com.au"}]},{"ID":"206","post_date":"2008-12-20 21:58:53","post_content":"Viocorp built a video portal site of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to help peple connect with the PM. In addition to the viostream solution iframed into the pm site, the site also had a video captioning solution that I built. It included playback on the video as well as an edit page in viostream.\r\n(development)","post_title":"pm.gov.au","post_status":"publish","post_name":"pmgovau","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/206","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pm01.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pm02.jpg"}]},{"ID":"199","post_date":"2008-11-20 21:38:03","post_content":"This was one of our first premium video portals. I wasn't leading the development but I did build a number of the components. These were the feature panel and the accordion list components. iinet are a great isp for providing this service and for their efforts in the courts.\r\n(some development)","post_title":"iinet - freezone","post_status":"publish","post_name":"iinet-freezone","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/199","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iinet01.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iinet02.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iinet03.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/freezone.iinet.net.au\/"}]},{"ID":"164","post_date":"2008-10-24 20:33:21","post_content":"This brief for this site was to design and develop a simple image gallery of print and photography work. I used slideshowpro (ssp) director as a CMS and hooked directly into the XML feeds for the front end. I was very impressed with the simplicity of ssp and intend to use it again for future projects.\r\n(design & develpoment)","post_title":"RedDoorProduction","post_status":"publish","post_name":"reddoorproduction","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/164","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/reddoor.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cms.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.reddoorproduction.com.au"}]},{"ID":"160","post_date":"2008-08-29 00:54:34","post_content":"This site has sentimental attachment to me as the previous site was my first commercial website. It has been completely rebuilt, but still retains the same accordion interface. The audio is a DJUK original.\r\n(design & develpoment)","post_title":"GuerrillaMedia","post_status":"publish","post_name":"guerrillamedia","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/160","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/guerrilla_1.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/guerrilla_2.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/guerrilla_3.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.guerrillamedia.com.au"}]},{"ID":"147","post_date":"2008-08-13 22:54:22","post_content":"Website interface concept developed at Frost Digital for Arpad Busson's funds management company EIM. The interactive logo was developed in papervision.\r\n(develpoment)","post_title":"EIM","post_status":"publish","post_name":"eim","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/147","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eim_11.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eim_21.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eim_31.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.robshearing.com\/misc\/eim"}]},{"ID":"109","post_date":"2008-07-20 00:12:28","post_content":"Platform style game built for a microsoft student offer campaign. The game features performace enhancements including bitmap caching and culling of off-screen vectors. There is also an encrypted algorithm for securely updating scores in the database.\r\n(develpoment)","post_title":"CheatStreet","post_status":"publish","post_name":"cheatstreet","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/109","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheat_1.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheat_2.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheat_3.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/game.itsnotcheating.com.au\/"}]},{"ID":"105","post_date":"2008-07-20 00:06:31","post_content":"Website to showcase the work done by GPYR. The site has some interesting features including a voting mechanism that works only for internal staff and an archive of previous months work. The site also has a CMS to allow producers to easily update the showcase.\r\n(some design & develpoment)","post_title":"GPYR - showcase","post_status":"publish","post_name":"gpyr-showcase","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/105","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpyr_1.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpyr_2.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpyr_3.jpg"}]},{"ID":"30","post_date":"2007-08-04 22:35:01","post_content":"Website for an advertising agency, The Campaign Palace, as part of a larger brand redesign in 2007. The site features a 3D background effect, blur transitions, video and a chandelier-inspired image tile transition effect. The site also has a flash CMS site that allows updating of all the copy, images and video on the site. \r\n(develpoment)","post_title":"The Campaign Palace","post_status":"publish","post_name":"the-campaign-palace","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/30","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tcp_1.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tcp_2.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tcp_3.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tcp_4.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tcp_5.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.thecampaignpalace.com.au\/"}]},{"ID":"29","post_date":"2007-08-04 19:13:52","post_content":"Site to promote launch of Windows Server 2008 Beta. The site allowed users to upload an image, which became part of a composite face to represent the averaged face of all the users contributing to the Beta software trial. Bespoke face detection software was used to create the composite face and a morph of the uploaded image into the composite. This was a global site which was customised for 49 locales containing 24 languages, including, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Romanian and Hebrew (RTL - reverse directional). The solution avoided the use of heavy overhead of localised typefaces, and a system was created that allowed a new language to be added within an hour. \r\n(develpoment)","post_title":"Faces of Windows Server","post_status":"publish","post_name":"longhorn","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/?p=29","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn_2.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn_3.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn_4.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn_5.jpg, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longhorn_6.jpg"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.facesofwindowsserver.com"}]}]},{"category":"experiments","items":[{"ID":"227","post_date":"2010-08-08 16:10:45","post_content":"The <a href='http:\/\/www.gridgallery.com.au'>GridGallery<\/a> is Sydney\u2019s first public and media-based gallery space dedicated solely to the exhibition of digital art. I submitted a piece for the \"sound\" brief and successfully passed the judging panel. My work then wen on dispay in August 2010. I have included here an interactive version of the drawing engine and also the submitted video.\r\n","post_title":"GridGallery","post_status":"publish","post_name":"gridgallery","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/227","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gg_sound_demo_700x300_1.swf, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/video_512x32_.swf"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/www.gridgallery.com.au\/home\/image_rotator.aspx?userId=a19916c8-87c2-4b53-91c7-9d8c015bd0a0&wallId=c33fef2e-b80a-4633-a190-9d5900ed558c&rank=3"}]},{"ID":"158","post_date":"2008-08-29 00:39:00","post_content":"Here is a demo of a sparkler effect I created recently for client work.","post_title":"Sparkler","post_status":"publish","post_name":"sparkler","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/158","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sparkler_800x600_.swf"}]},{"ID":"139","post_date":"2008-07-22 15:50:43","post_content":"Point cloud data of Thom Yorke from the House of cards video clip. The data from the video clip has been made available on google code. There are two variations, the first is a steroescopic viewer where you need to cross your eyes to see the composite 3d view. The second is an attampt to emulate the viewer on google code.","post_title":"House of Cards","post_status":"publish","post_name":"house-of-cards","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/139","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hoc_3_810x320_1.swf, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hoc_2_700x320_1.swf"},{"key":"link","value":"http:\/\/code.google.com\/creative\/radiohead\/viewer.html"}]},{"ID":"52","post_date":"2007-09-01 23:05:23","post_content":"Some experiments with drawing swarms of lines. The technique was developed on Eric Natzke way of drawing tangent curves.","post_title":"Lines & Ribbons","post_status":"publish","post_name":"flash-exp2","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/52","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lines_bmp_800x500_1.swf, http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lines_300x300_1.swf"}]},{"ID":"49","post_date":"2007-08-26 18:59:00","post_content":"This surface of tiles uses a sample of perlin noise to generate the organic wave motion. Inspired by the MSNBC's news visualiser.","post_title":"Mesh wave","post_status":"publish","post_name":"flash-test","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/49","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mesh_550x200_.swf"}]},{"ID":"136","post_date":"2007-07-21 16:13:15","post_content":"Random snapshots from Google earth. Built with my own tile mapping API, it interfaces with googles Keyhole map servers. The locations are semi random as I have defined regions which strips of tiles are sampled from.","post_title":"Earth Sampler","post_status":"publish","post_name":"earth-sampler","guid":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/archives\/136","meta":[{"key":"asset","value":"http:\/\/blog.robshearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/earthsampler_1024x768_3.swf"}]}]}]