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This is just a quick follow up post to share more of the artwork for Aviary's upcoming advertising campaign, in this case for Hummingbird, our upcoming Flash-Player based 3D modeller. We are basing this particular piece on M.C. Escher's famous work, Relativity.
This will be available for sale in our market as a poster, with ad copy and without.
And as usual, Meowza knocks it out of the park.
Next up: A large analysis of the features in Phoenix, Aviary's Flash-based image editor.
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Click here to play with the interactive 3D model.
Here you can see a real reflective material effect placed on our Hummingbird logo.
You can see just how much improved this new gold material effect is over the last time we updated on this topic:
Material effects like these are only possible because Hummingbird, our Flash-based 3D modeller, utilizes the powerful open source Away3D flash engine.
Why did we choose Away3D to power Hummingbird when there were other very competent 3D engines like Papervision3D and Sandy available?
Simple: Technical realism is a must. Hummingbird will be used to render realistic 3d photo objects for use in other Aviary tools (like Phoenix). Away3D supports features like corrective z-sorting, ensuring us that pictures will be rendered correctly, with polygons appearing exactly as they should. Add incredible real-time material effects previously unseen in Flash and it was perfect for our needs.
Update! More interactive demos:
- Reflective directional lighting
- smooth shading
- transparent reflections
We've been asked for more examples of how our tools can tie together in different ways. Here's a great (and fun) example:
We now have the ability to export 3D texture maps in Hummingbird, which means that you can save your 3D models as autostereograms, and publish your own custom "Magic Eye style" book!
Stereograms are those potentially frustrating texture images where you shift the focus of your eyes (i.e. by crossing them or trying to see double) and see a hidden 3D object in the texture. For those of you who have never seen a stereogram before there's a great explanation at Wikipedia. Some people can see it, some people can't.
So how would it work? Simple. First a user makes a 3D model in Hummingbird and then chooses to export it as a stereogram.
Hummingbird then makes a 3D black and white texture map of the current scene.
Next a user chooses a texture pattern that can be applied. A user can make their texture in Phoenix (or in Peacock, Raven or Tern), can upload one from their desktop, or can use someone else's texture.
We then automatically generate the stereogram as an image file:
See the hummingbird and torus?
Here's another image with the same scene and a texture thrown together in Phoenix.
Finally, a user can lay out their collection of stereograms (or other people's stereograms) as a book in Owl, our desktop publishing tool, and offer their book for sale in our market. And of course Aviary would track all rights, royalties and attributions from everyone involved.
As an update to our previous post demonstrating the 3D engine that powers our upcoming 3D editor, Hummingbird, the talented Fabrice Closier demonstrates our Hummingbird logo in real time 3D with a metallic gold material applied to it. This effect is just one material that will be available in the Hummingbird 3D editor.
View the demo here
Here's a quick demo of the 3D engine that we are using to power our flash-based 3D modeler, Hummingbird.
The original logo looked like this:
The new logo, rendered in 3D (as a rough first draft) looks like this:
http://a.viary.com/images/blog/hummingbird3d.swf
Spin it around for a very neat "pop off the screen" illusion.
This is of course, just a glimpse at the rendering engine itself, and does not show off it's ability to render real-time lighting or animation. Maybe we'll show that off next :)
Update! (7/5/2007 at 11:10:00 AM) Peter Kapelyan was kind enough to provide us with a higher resolution, animated hummingbird model.
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