Author: Ben Foster
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Comparing custom font display with @font-face
This is a little experiment I conducted comparing the way different browsers render custom fonts through @font-face. What I found was that the two browsers that displayed them best were IE8 and Firefox 4 Beta. The worst browsers were Opera and Safari. Opera seemed to make the characters extra skinny, and Safari made the characters…
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The Megahorns Website Refresh
I have just launched a new website design refresh for The Megahorns, a local band from Melbourne. Quite a large band actually with heaps of saxes, trumpets, trombones and drums! The re-design involved building a new WordPress theme from the ground up to incorporate into their existing CMS. The design incorporates graphic elements from their…
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Future Interface Concepts
Here is a small collection of my favourite user interface concept videos. You will have to use Red-Blue 3D glasses to watch the second one properly.
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UberSnake – my Flash snake game
Heres what I’ve been doing this week… making a Flash version of the old game ‘Snake’ which I’m sure a lot of people spent plenty of time playing on the old Nokia phones. This game had a lot of firsts for me in relation to ActionScript. This is the first thing I’ve done completely from…
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MotionList – part 2
I’ve made some more progress on my MotionList class over the last couple of days. Some new features in the current demo below are:
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MotionList – Windows Phone 7 Metro UI style lists
Here is small experiment I’ve done in AS3 called Motion List. Motion List is a class that creates a list or grid of items with similar animations to the upcoming Windows Phone 7 UI’s ‘Metro’ transitions. I love the new UI for WP7 and thought I’d try and recreate a little bit of it in…
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Guitar Shots
Here is another short video I made to test my new lens – a Canon EF 50mm F1.4. The clip is a bunch of close up shots of my guitars and basses recorded at 1920×1080 24fps. I love the really shallow depth of field of the lens. Footage was graded with Magic Bullet Looks.
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Box Hill edit – A short video test with the Canon 7D
I got a Canon 7D the other week, and what better way to test out the video features than to make a push bike edit. So on the weekend I hit up the Box Hill skate park for a ride and filmed some of the locals. Shot with Canon 7D + – Canon EFS 18-135mm…
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A couple cool videos…
Here are some cool videos I found during the week. The first one is a racing game which consists of a classic arcade racing unit, an RC car and a cardboard track. Players use the arcade box to drive the RC car around the cardboard track. Pretty cool! This second video is a nice demo…