Working with design direction provided to me from the creative director, I designed, executed and coded the an interactive 3D website for Zara Media Design Group. In the workflow for this project, I used Photoshop, Blender 3D, and the open source Flash ActionScript 3 frameworks, Papervision3D and Tweener.

Things that are true about this project

• There is a dinosaur hidden somewhere in the book. Click on the Copyright information in the corner of the page for this easter egg.
• I made heavy usage of the AS3 Tweener framework for the animations on this project. Tweener was really easy to work with.
• I used Blender 3D to create the models, and made their textures yellow in Photoshop. This was the easiest part of the whole project.
• Steve Jobs was right about how Flash sucks, and I know for a fact that his letter would have been even longer and angrier if he personally had to develop for it.
• About every week, I updated my local copy of the Papervision3D source tree via SVN checkout to get access to new features and bugfixes, which caused the whole site to break completely for a whole day at least 5 times.

Things that are NOT true about this project

• Working with ActionScript 3 was a breeze. It's internal consistency and well written documentation on the intricacies of the language's easy to understand syntax made everything so easy to code.
• My experiences working with Flash on this site made me want to work with Flash in the future.
• It was a good idea to use Collada as the format to store the models, because of how easy it is to read, manipulate and parse XML in AS3.
• Having to write functions and loops to watch ProgressEvents and OnLoadEvents is not a waste of time at all, because there should not be an easier way to do anything.
• I was not frustrated at all when I learned that the time I had spent learning how to use Papervision3D had been a waste because of the eventual death and discontinuation of the Papervision3D project.
• I have no bitter memories associated with this project at all.