Dolores Moore - Flex Skinning and RIA UI Design

3D is a passion of mine. I’ve been doing some experimenting exporting 3D rendered stills from Maya to Flash and then finally to Flex. I like the concept of creating GUI elements that are squashy, transformed or deformed in some way. I’m hoping to create an entire interface with 3D elements. Maybe blend these elements with video for a Game like experience? We’ll See…Here’s where I am so far.

3D Rendered GUI Flex Skinned Components

I’ve been playing around with Flex’s Effects lately and I thought I would post some of my experiments here. These are just my creative sketches. I like to play around with User Interfaces so I sat down to see what kind of animations I could create as a Designer.

Here I use Blur, Zoom, Resize, Fade, Move. I also put some Bounce.easeOut on the Zoom effect.

Bounce

play Flex Bounce Effect Animation

Zoom

Here I tried out the Flex Animation Effects combined with a Video Embedded in a Flash SWF. Looks pretty cool. I call it “Cloudscape. Could be a whole theme.

play Flex Zoom Video Animation