Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category

I spent the last semester studying abroad in Ireland at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT), and the work Kelley Corless and I had done on a project for the course has payed off. We spent the entire semester working on telling a story of development for a digital media competition set up by the Irish development agency, Connect-World.

We created an interactive, short animation explaining free trade in a simplistic way for children to understand. We started with hand drawn characters and then animated them using Adobe Flash.

Connect-World, among other organizations and businesses such as the Dublin City Council, RTE, National Irish Bank, Movies.ie, and AIB are all finalists in their respective categories in the Irish Digital Media Awards. The Digital Media Awards web site states,

“Launched in 2003, The Digital Media Awards were engineered to raise awareness of the emerging digital media sector in Ireland and more importantly to act as a showcase for the varied dynamic works being created by companies and third level institutions across a broad spectrum of categories in Digital Media.”

Our animation is now a finalist in the Connect-World category, and winners will be announced February 13th in Dublin.

LIT has been extremely generous in their offer to have me fly to Dublin for the award dinner for the announcement of the winners.

I am in Ireland until December and am finding it hard to follow the U.S.’s presidential election. In my efforts to follow the race, I came across this interactive Flash map on the CNN web site.

The map was very handy, because when I hovered over each state, the number of votes for each candidate was displayed, and the map shows who won each state. It should be noted that the map is based purely on voting projections, but this is not a departure from the usual way the media follows the election. It is just nice to have something running in the background while I am on the Internet. It’s not obtrusive and loud like the usual dramatic live broadcast of the election results.

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