UnitZeroOne

For the last years I have been working at Satama / Satama Flash Fabriek. Now it’s time to move on. As of the 1st of July I am no longer one of the Flash Fabriek employee’s.Things have been very busy again lately. Most notably I have been very busy, to busy to update the blog. Why ? I’ve decided to start doing business as UnitZeroOne. From now on I am going to be available as an independent consultant and developer, under the name of this blog.I’m looking forward to a new challenge and phase of evolution in my life!If you want to contact me with inquiries regarding work, or if you have my Satama contact details and would like my new :I’ll be working on getting a company site running here very soon. As for the rest of the future in this. I’m hoping to bring you news on more company related stuff soon. I’m looking at partnering with several other people and creating a company with them. Also, I will continue doing work on the Papervision3D engine.

I almost forgot : the house of tomorrow made the cannes cyber lions shortlist! No matter if it wins or not, this is already something we are all very proud of. For those of you who are non dutch, and would like to know what it’s about, there’s an english demo available at : http://www.hethuisvanmorgen.nl/english/. If you navigate to the family’s living room, you’ll even get subtitles.If you’re at Adobe Live 2006 Netherlands tomorrow : be sure to check the showcase Elvin and Dagan will be doing on this. See you tomorrow!Update : I just noticed that the shortlist the house of tomorrow is in the same list as Comcastic. Wow. This is amazing. Only to be with the last 10 in that category with something co-created by some of my all time flash heroes, like Branden Hall and Eric Natzke…

My usual excuse for no blog entries has been being busy. But this time it’s really really really been really really busy, up till now, where I can have some days of relaxer ambiance. Although still working, it’s within reasonable hours, and thus I have some time to actually do an update.The most exiting happening has been “Satama Flash Fabriek” (Translates into “Satama Flash Factory”). After working as Flash Programmer and Flash Teamleader for Satama for 1 1/2 years, we’ve finally got our own shop up and running. We’ve moved offices together with Satama (see pictures below). Although 100% daughter of Satama, lots has changed for us, and we (11 people: 2 Designers/Animators, 1 UX, 1 management, and 7 Flash Platform Developers) have got our own office in Amsterdam (same building as Satama) and structure. The best thing about this has been being able to take in our own work, which is exactly what I’ve been looking for some while now. This would also be the moment to try and sell our services to you with an endless marketing talk ,but this being my personal blog I’ll just tell you we’re for hire, and you can contact me on r.hauwert[at]gmail[dot]com. We do Flash Design/Animation, high level ActionScripting (2/3) / Flash and Flex (1.5/2) Development.On the personal/UnitZeroOne side of stuff, I’ve still got some unfinished work I’d like to post, which follows the previous examples, some of which might be interresting to see here somewhere soon. It’s going to be this or next week before that update arrives.So, some pictures from the new HQ, taken with a phone camera, so quality isn’t that good :The Satama reception (hmmm…do you notice the hidden flag ? ).One of the meeting rooms :An empty and very messy Flash Factory office :