UnitZeroOne

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 :

Yesterday evening, I had the honors to upload the final http://www.hethuisvanmorgen.nl (translates into : “the house of tommorow”).So, what is this ?We (Satama Amsterdam) were asked to do Flash development for this project by Draft Worldwide, working with them to develop this site for Dutch Telco KPN.As I can remember from our first meeting (which is some time ago now) their objective was : a highend flash interactive video soap on the web, to promote the multiplay products of client KPN. State of the art, with high quality (video, etc) all written over it. The shooting of the video’s on itself was a huge production. I think video quality reflects the effort which has been put into this. There’s about 20 minutes of (alpha channeled/keyed) video material intergrated within the site. Then let’s not forget the amount of audio, rendering, set dressing, design and coding this thing has included, it is huge. Admittedly, the high quality affects bandwidth/performance, graphical quality was one of the first things in the priority list of our client. Flash 8 alpha channel video is indeed very heavy, as Tinic Uro noted in one of his notes on Flash 8.I was involved as a teamleader (flash development team) and Flash coder for Satama. This thing has been alot of work, but great fun, and we are all very proud of it by now.Hopefully, the making of will come online one day.Although al companies involved are to be found in the credits, I would like to thank alot of people in person for cooperation on this, and this seems to be the place to do it. Thank you Vincent, Dagan, Hanneke, Eddy, Sander, Peter, Elvin, Dirk, Mikko, Hans, Ini, Guido, Jos, Stef, Allard, Hugo, Hemmo and anyone I might have forgotten.Credits :Concept & Design : Lowe & DraftFlash Development : Satama Flash FactoryFilm Production : Monkey RepublicMusic & Sounds : Freshbeat3d Moddeling (doors & rooms / house renderings) : INDGGraphics & Moddeling : LouterI’ll post some more on the tech of this thing later; expect some more updates here again!