Abstract Art Competition - Comercial Application - Cash Prize
I am presently working for the tech-media section of a London based law firm. I have persuaded them that if I can show them something that will look really tech - they will incorporate it into the new tech micro site we are building. I thought that it would make a good kirupa competition, and if it gets used, there will be $150 for the winner, a couple of hours free (UK) legal advice (we’re IT specialists) and obviously one more name to add to your client porfolio.
I want to have a very fancy flash animation that is really impressive, low k (preferabley no loader - but ActionScript if there is one - the code to adapt is here), but quite abstract as a banner that runs beneath the title banner and above the navigation bar - both of which I imagine sitting centre top.
It would have to be maybe 770px wide and perhaps 100px high and would have to based on a white background and probably fading into and out of that background - your call.
I imagine something like rainbow elipses fading into view from one side of the screen and moving ethereally accross to the other where they fade away again - looped, or very thin black lines of random shape, or geometric shape, sparking into life and out again, or droplets or perhaps a clever use of Swift3D… whatever you can think of. From the depth and breadth of imagination we see daily in the footers alone on this site I have no doubt someone will do something spectacular.
The competition will provisionally be open until the end of the year and the prize will be absolutely dependent on my finding something that we actually use. Having said that there is a good chance that, if we get some really good entries, we will run it again.
Odedvard - With regards to seeing the actual website - you can see that site as it is at the moment, which is old and not very impressive, hence our redoing it.
The site as it will be is still being constructed but is largely white and grey, with very XP look - I won’t be able to put it up but to your credit the sort of design you’ve done would fit in.
Then I’ll have to rethink my strategy. Here’s my scribble effect anywho. I know it’s pretty redundant in a competition like this, but I said I would post it so that is what I’ll do, even if it doesn’t suit the right demographic.
But I think it should have a limit to the number of flowers you can create. I nice way would be to stop producing flowers when the frame rate drops below a certain level. Or combine my concept with yours and have the flowers make themselves along my semi random paths.
of course, since you did this ‘some time ago’ you’d probably not be interested in anything like that
But if I don’t try to critizise constructively, who will? Right?.. right?
@ Junahu:
I already thought about the thing with the random ways and the limited number of flowers.
But this should just show the basic concept. The client (if he is interested) may want me to ajust this to his desires, so I let it open for his decision. (same with colorlimitaions, to make it fit to the page, growing speed, framerate, size,…)
(imaging me with my outstretched hand mimicing your mouth like some kind of osterich sock puppet) nyyer nyer nyer nyer nyer nyer nyeeer! You can be sooo cruel sometimes. Just because I’m not as good as you.
…and sorry.
…and… SEXIST! You assumed the gender of a potential client.
…and… if you let it open to his decision, maybe you should give him the fla rather than view the swf? Saves the client some time bothering you when they could just alter some variables themselves. Not that I know any better of course. I’m 16 and don’t have any kind of experience.
