The Dougly Project
Apr 16, 2007
My Brother took off to the states for a couple years and wasn’t able to make it to Christmas and other family stuff. So I built him this interactive photo site with a character of him walking along photos of events he missed.
Wanted it to be a fun site so its has rough stick figure drawings combined with photo heads. As he walks along people from the photos say stuff.
Christmas patterns
Apr 16, 2007
A holiday send out & greeting. Really I just like the patterns twirling about!
Thingamajig Factory
Apr 16, 2007
This is a little site I did for my 2 nephews. Wanted to make a simple site with games and activity teaching them abc’s, numbers and drawing.
Woodspindle 03
Apr 16, 2007
The old Woodspindle website. Used simple html/css to make a ‘growing’ tree. Note none of the links work.
The Irregular Story - 2005
Sep 25, 2006
One of the most recent and ambitious projects I’ve done. This project idea was to get users to upload their own story composed out of text and supplied imagery. You could input text, pick images, compose it and then submit to the site. The latest submission is presented on the home page and the other go into an archive. Imagery was pretty quirky so the story’s we’re all pretty similar.
This was my first attempt at a dynamic backend using php and submission forms. It’s using txt files as a database so its pretty inefficient plus the user interface to pick & compose is not so good. After the fact and getting feedback it could be built much simpler as well as give the user more freedom to add more of their own story parts.
At some point I’d like to rebuild this one and make it that much better.
Noise Construction - 2004
Sep 25, 2006
This was fun experiment using sound tied to animation. Was my first attempt at using sound in a complex way (as well as using physics in the flash animations). Basically you can compose a song by throwing the balls contained in three sections…harder you throw the louder the sound.
Had some technical problems with it as it can cause the browser to crash if you throw all the balls at once. Created sounds with metal clanging or plastic bottles with the bottoms cut away to simple loops with the guitar.
Dead Fishy - 2004
Sep 25, 2006
Static image with dead fish and textures.
Butterfly - 2004
Sep 25, 2006
This was an animation that uses found objects to peice together a butterfly (looks more like a moth I guess). Pulling out one of the support nails makes the whole thing to come apart.
Rot - 2004
Sep 25, 2006
This was a animation I did about things growing then rotting away… all the while as we’re watching. Its a big file (5mgs) so it take’s some time to load.
Squirrl?! - 2004
Sep 25, 2006
Rabid squirrl attack! Need I say more?
Windy City - 2003
Sep 25, 2006
While I lived in Lethbridge AB one summer I went around taking pictures of the city at 3:00 in the morning as well as photos of the old style signage painted on the older downtown buildings.
Took them all and placed them in this strange interface that is constantly changing (lethbridge is always windy). Its all random as it cycles through the sets…need to click on the blue thing that’s animating to change the sets…not really user friendly.
The Hallows - 2003
Sep 25, 2006
I’d try to explain this one but really can’t…not sure what I was thinking (or on). It does feature a Tar Bucket original song though!
Puzzles - 2003
Sep 25, 2006
Took some of photographs of Medicine Hat’s surprisingly large population of abandoned house’s. Alberta seems to have lots of derelict farm house’s…junk and old furniture included!
So I made some puzzles out of two of them.
Tension - 2003
Sep 25, 2006
Static image collage with robots blasting and patterned background.
Pattern - 2003
Sep 25, 2006
Weird little pattern generator. Pick shapes and draw on the canvas.
GNR - 2002
Sep 25, 2006
School project concerning genetic, nano and cybernetic technology all applied to the human body. It’s pretty negative story as it allows you to add and changes the three technologies (making the human body better) but as you mess about more and more you lose control until you have not control at all.
Reality - 2001
Sep 23, 2006
One of my first successful animation. Uses a textures and cloths in to describe ‘reality’ in a story.
Frog Legs - 2001
Sep 23, 2006
School project exploring sound and user interface. On a artistic side it was built comparing the human body with mechanical parts along with living parts. Overall it was made to be quirky interactive story with the old 1900’s phonograph music.