New City Gardens

The new City Gardens in st.Louis is really cool. If you can check it out, if you can’t enjoy my photos of it.

City Gardens

Flash CS4 only creates currput AIR 1.5 – What should I do to fix this?

As long as I have had CS4 only till this night had I tried to make an AIR file with it. The problem is that after I have created a air file, when I go to install said AIR file (”.air”) I get a message saying the the files is damaged. WTF Adobe?

My flash player is uptodate and so is my CS4. I have 10.0.2 installed and the CS4 install was a reinstalled not only 2 months ago. I have googled with no results of any one else complaining of creating damaged files from CS4.

What should I do?

Thanks
- Josh Chernoff.

::::EDIT:::: UPDATE:::: Looks like unchecking Timestamp from the digital signature license option did the trick.

FullScreen AS3 Lib for Images and video just reached 1000 downloads.

I just noticed that over 1000 of you out there downloaded my AS3 FullScreen lib, I just hope that as many of you enjoyed it. =)

http://gfxcomplex.com/actionscript3/free-as3-image-and-video-full-screen-library/

Banyan logo animation

I have been given alot of logos to animate but due to new work at banyan I have been happily busy. Even still banyan had asked me to animate their logo too. So here it is.

Banyan promo video from Josh Chernoff on Vimeo.

http://www.banyancommunications.com/

Logo animated for High level studios

Logo animated for High level studios


High Level Studios from Josh Chernoff on Vimeo.

http://www.highlevelstudios.com

Send me your logos to Animate.

I need more AE experience, so I thought to start animating peoples logos for free. If you have a logo you would like me to animate please email the highest quality version of that logo you have to josh[at]gfxcomplex.com

Promo Video for Flex and Fuse the Arch

Here’s yet another After Effects video I made as a promo for the Flex and Fuse the Arch a user group at http://flexandfusethearch.com/

Fuse and Flex the Arch Animated Logo from Josh Chernoff on Vimeo.

Logo art by: Matthew Maddox

AS3 Apex Promo video.

Heres my second ever After Effects video. I made this as a promo for the AS3 apex user group at http://as3apex.com

AS3 Apex Animated Logo from Josh Chernoff on Vimeo.

Free AS3 Image and Video Full Screen Library.

I have put all three of my full screen classes together. I am also now hosting it on googles code site. There will be some documents coming out soon, though there is still some examples in the zip.

The newest class is a FullScreenVideo class that takes and URL of a FLV, FL4 or H.264 supported video add scales the video to fit the browser. You can apply smoothing and or buffering. You can also set the number of times to loop the video or set it to 0 to loop forever.
The second class is a class that will scale an image the same way you can with a video.
The third class is a Image panning class that will pan the areas cropped by scaling the image.

This achieved such a common set of tasks that I was amazed that there was not much out there already. I hope it helps, enjoy.

Here is a link to the Zip:: http://as3-fullscreen-lib.googlecode.com/files/fullscreen-lib.zip
Here is the link to the project on code.google.com:: http://code.google.com/p/as3-fullscreen-lib

::EDIT:: Good news… I just tried to load a swf in the FullScreenImage Class and it works so long as you don’t use bitmapsmoothing. So now for the record you can load anything a Loader class can in the FullScreenImage class.

New Beta AS3 FullScreenVideo Class. Need your input – comment.

I have just made a new version of my FullscreenImage class for videos. Just like the image version you can set it to any align point like top, center, bottom, left, right, ect, while still scaling the video to fit the whole screen proportionally on the fly.

Yet there are a few things that you normally want to do with video that are not the same with images. Such as loop, pause, play, ect… Since I want make this class lite I want to know what you want to see in it. Please post a reply with what you think would be good for this class in the way of functionality and command use.

I will try to add as much as requested, though please keep in mind this class is meant to be a backdrop to a site and not a video player.

Here is a link to the beta version if you would like to see it working now.
Link: http://gfxcomplex.com/labs/fullscreen-video-beta-1.zip