Reality in Flash

I’m just stunned. Go here, and move your cursor around. And this is CG/flash? According to Boing Boing, where I got the link, it was created by a Brazilian design firm.

Update
There’s a reason for the face to be Japanese. Following a few links leads to the fact that a Japanese company is behind the technology, called Motion Portrait.

Category: Design • Web

Responses:

the Flash file is linked from here:
http://www.motionportrait.com/about/TIminoriHair.swf

which leads you to:
http://www.motionportrait.com/e/

and then on to this:
http://www.motionportrait.com/e/about/

doesn’t seem so very brazilian to me ;)

08.03.31 17:14
Posted by Jesper
Great detective work! I’ll update the post.

08.03.31 19:03
Posted by Jean Snow
no shit sherlock

08.04.01 22:17
Posted by Jesper
Well, in this case, you were Sherlock, no? Shit had nothing to do with it.

08.04.02 0:53
Posted by Jean Snow

Reply:

Jean Snow lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.

Jean Snow is a daily contributor to Wired magazine's game blog, Game|Life, covering game news from Japan and beyond.

Arcade Mania is currently on sale through Amazon Japan, with the same edition available for pre-order on Amazon US (to be released January, 2009).

Tokyolife: Art and Design covers Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives. Jean Snow provided coordination assistance.

The Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.

He is also the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.

PauseTalk is a regular series of events that take place at Cafe Pause on the first Monday of every month, with a start time of 20:00. The idea is to create a forum where Tokyo-based creatives can get together and discuss their own projects, as well as cultural currents of the city. The next edition happens October 6.