Dolores Joya » Flex Skinning http://doloresjoya.com/blog Branded RIA UI Designer Blog Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:38:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 User Interface Animation http://doloresjoya.com/blog/2009/07/19/user-interface-animation/ http://doloresjoya.com/blog/2009/07/19/user-interface-animation/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:37:28 +0000 admin http://doloresjoya.com/blog/?p=208 Designing User Interfaces has always been more exciting to me than traditional Art or traditional Print Design. The reason being, User Interfaces (U.I.’s) combine Graphic Design with Interactivity and Animation. Subjects I’ve studied, worked with, and loved for years. In my new article, I talk about my recent observations in the field of User Interface Animation and cover applying the traditional Principles of Animation to User Interfaces in a few experiments using Flex Builder and Flash. Click here to read the full article.

]]> http://doloresjoya.com/blog/2009/07/19/user-interface-animation/feed/ 2 Flex + Flash + Maya + zBrush http://doloresjoya.com/blog/2008/11/14/flex-flash-maya-zbrush/ http://doloresjoya.com/blog/2008/11/14/flex-flash-maya-zbrush/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:57:10 +0000 admin http://doloresjoya.com/blog/?p=74 Here’s an experiment I did with some of my favorite Computer Graphics tools mashed up to together. I’ve been working heavily in Pixologic’s zBrush (Awesome 3D Sculpting) and Maya 2009 (Out of Control Animation) when I’m not creating out Flex UI Designs and Flash Skins. Ultimately, I want to push everything together to create innovative and inspirational user interface widgets and what-not. So here is the output from those pipelines melded into a wicked skull.

 

Flex + Flash + Maya + zBrush

Flex + Flash + Maya + zBrush

Here is the original zBrush Sculpt. This is the version I intended to use in my Maya Animation but I’m still figuring out Displacement Maps in Maya/zBrush.

zBrush Sculpt of Skull by dolores joya moore

zBrush Sculpt of Skull by dolores joya moore

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