So I’m on about pushing these skills and broadening myself in new ways…and I’ve come across a thought. Actually this has spawned from a comment just made about my new as3 interactive piece; highlighting that it “needs colour!”.

You know what, I absolutely agree, and this is the thing. Ever since I can remember; A-Level, GCSE, Year 2, before that even, I’ve always worked with pencils and charcoal as mediums of choice in my art. Everything was very dark, subtle, discreet and overall pretty darn grayscale :-S.

It seems like this influence is still taking an affect on my work and I think its about time I experimented with different visual mediums/theory/techniques, whatever you want to call it - and added some colour!!!!

I have now re-implemented my new Flash app (see previous post) in AS3! which has been a great learning curve I must say and I’m actualy very fond of the new way of working, everything is so much faster! tweens are now so sleek and efficient.

This app is still in development and will soon contain another piece of uni work, along with a few freelance portfolio elements in the future too. Roll on AS3.

Check the new version out at the same location:

http://portfolio.chris-boardman.com

As part of our new studio project this term entitled ‘Utopia/Dystopia’ I was tasked to illustrate a series of designs which conveyed either or both of these themes in the form of a book. - Taking ‘Dystopia’ as my topic of choice I drew inspiration from a few personal photos and started experimenting.

I actually really enjoyed this mini task and thought I’d expand on it by publishing a digital version of this book and wrapping some kind of package around the content. I am always looking for a little sideline project that will help push my skill set so I thought I’d develop a dynamic Flash app to allow interaction with these images. Feel free to have a gander at my initial development:

This is still developed using AS2, and the images are sourced using xml all well and good, but there is something niggling at me, something telling me to bite the bullet and start getting to grips with AS3!…….So I’ve decided I am going to use this application as a foundation to develop these skills and implement a larger scale interactive ’surface portfolio’. My intention is for this subdomain to eventually house an interactive version of my work, represented in a much more visual way. - Imagine a surface with different pockets of work, they can be chucked around, transformed and viewed. Right, kool, go.