Samples

  • 3D Truck

     Flash does not have a native 3D engine, but with a little math and a lot of patience you can fake it pretty well. Hold down the mouse button to rotate the truck towards your cursor. Click the screen once to get the initial render.

  • 3D Room with Balls

     Little more than a novelty, balls bouncing in a 3d space.

  • Bats Logo

     A logo designed for a St. Louis softball team.

  • ‘Bot Box

     Something like a 3D virtual coloring book. Clicking on the 5 buttons on the top left will allow you to select new colors for the robot being viewed. Clicking on one of the six squares in the bottom left will select a new robot.

  • Clark and Lois

     Originally created for the "Moving at the speed of..." animation this was for a throw away scene that was thrown away.

  • Clouds

     There’s no really good reason for this one, I just like the way it looks.

  • CoMers Asteroids

     Modification of the classic Asteroids video game initially created to be something viewers could pass the time with while waiting foe an episode of CoMers the series to download. Use your arrow keys to navigate and the space key to fire your guns.

  • Critters Playground

     A simple Artificial Intelligence (AI) test. Several randomly positioned “spiders” in one of six colors battle for dominance of the screen. Each spider performs one of three decisions each cycle they either choose a target and move to attack (represented by a thin line), attempt to group up with other spiders of their own color (represented by a thick line), or attempt to flee the screen.

  • Dale Jarret

     A stylized illustration of UPS’s NASCAR racer Dale Jarret.

  • Driver Head Test

     Originally created for the "Moving at the speed of..." animation this was a test of the lead character designed to mimic the appearance of 3d motion.

  • Evil Genius

     A stylized cartoon image of an insidious ne’er-do-well.

  • Explosion #5

     A randomly generated cartoon explosion created for CoMers the series where it is used a lot.

  • Fortune Teller

     An animation created for The Dragon’s Keep. The original illustration of the fortune teller was created by Chris "Satyr" Ready who’s work can be seen at the Art of Satyr.

  • Head Nod

     Another attempt to mimic 3D animation created for the "Moving at the speed of..." animation.

  • Iago’s Revenge

     This game is an original modification to the classic Game of Othello. Played similarly to Othello except with three players on hex field (six sided hexagons instead of four sided squares). The player controls the Red team and attempts trap enemy pieces between two or more of their own pieces.

  • Kidz

     A diverse cast of cartoon kids.

  • Light Snack

     A photo manipulation created for The Dragon’s Keep website.

  • Maze

     What’s more simple than a maze? Use your arrow keys to navigate from the green area to the red area of the maze. This script randomly creates a new maze each time it’s opened allowing for extremely simply mazes and slightly puzzling mazes as well.

  • Moving at the Speed of...

     An unfinished cartoon to be used as a show piece for a UPS meeting it dealt with the trials and tribulations of a simple driver attempting to keep his schedule.

  • Muscle Man

     A simple looping animation of a cartoon super-hero.

  • Othello

     The Classic game of Othello, Attempt to capture enemy pieces by surrounding them with your own units.

  • Personalities

     A diverse cast of cartoon characters.

  • PTVS

     This is a quick animation testing the usage of a scripted virtual camera for flash, which controls visual effects.

  • Pumpkin Trick

     One of the first things I created with flash was this simple game that I sent out as a Halloween gift.

  • Rain Standoff

     I went through a whole phase of simply testing different ideas in Flash for no real reason, this is a scripted storm effect, the rain, lightning and sound effects are all randomly created and added to the scene.

  • ‘Roid Camera Zoom

     This is a scripted piece that was created for CoMers, it uses some of the same 3D practices used in .SWFs above to zoom through an asteroid field.

  • ‘Roid Jump #3

     This was a simple scene created for CoMers the Series , just playing around with the lighting.

  • Space Battle

     Created as an example of Object Oriented Programming this piece slowly morphed into yet another Artificial Intelligence test. It pits four different factions against one another in a space battle (hence it’s overly creative name). The user can control elements of the action by: Clicking on one of the four colored squares in the corners to introduce one ship of that color. Clicking the All button to introduce one ship from each faction. Clicking the Cycle button to have it automatically introduce a new ship in order. Click the Chaos! button to have it automatically introduce a random ship at a random time. Finally the user can click on a ship to assume control and use their arrow keys to fly the ship while using their space bar to fire.

  • Sphere Blast

     A photo manipulation created for The Dragon’s Keep website.

  • Spinning Dragon

     The Dragon’s Keep logo spinning in full 3D glory

  • Stan I am

     The animation that used to grace my home page.

  • St. Louis Invasion

     Archival footage of a flying saucer flying through downtown St. Louis

  • Troll

     Simple animation to demonstrate how a Troll costume might be designed.

  • Walk

     Simple animation playing around with character animation.