Posted: April 22nd, 2010 | Filed under: 02 Labs | 1 Comment »
The main reason why I bought an iPad is to use it as a multitouch device. My company proposed an interactive installation using multitouch screen for SoBe couple month ago. I had to start making a prototype without a multitouch device because we planned to buy one after the client confirming. It was hard to make a prototype without multitouch screen because multitouch gesture is totally different user experience compared to general interface like a keyboard and a mouse.
iPhone could be a option but it has limitation because of smaller screen size so that it’s hard to control multiple points with detail. In this reason, iPad has ideal screen size and shows great performance.
Memo, an amazing code artist, already made a multitouch remote as iPhone app but there is no iPad version. I also wanted to make my own version so that I can optimize and can control functions as I want. I had a chance to figure out and made a simple prototype finally. It was lucky to make it without any big issue. Here is a video I took today. C++/openframeworks was used. Next step might be making my own multitouch gesture API for c++ and Flash.
Posted: April 20th, 2010 | Filed under: 00 Personal Memory | No Comments »
Received the book of ‘The Internet Case Study Book’ I ordered today. Two projects of GotMilk? and A Simple Switch I worked are introduced.
Posted: April 14th, 2010 | Filed under: 00 Personal Memory | No Comments »
The Webbby Awards has announced that the Lands’ End – Big Boston Warm-up has been selected as one of official Honoree for the Event category.
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Posted: April 6th, 2010 | Filed under: 00 Personal Memory | No Comments »
FITC has announced that the three of Firstborn projects have been nominated for the 2010 FITC Awards. Especially Lands’ End – Big Boston Warm-up has been selected as finalist for both the Flash Motion Graphics and Flash Animation of the 2010 FITC.
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Posted: March 30th, 2010 | Filed under: 01 Selected Works | 3 Comments »
AGENCY: Firstborn / CLIENT: SoBe / DATE: March 2010 / ROLE: Lead Developer
Executive Producer : Crytinue Cho / Creative Direction and Design : Dave Snyder / Tattoo Design : Dave Snyder and Mike Roushey / Tattoo Kiosk Development : Dofl Y.H. Yun(me) / Server-side Development : Francis Turmel / Slide Show Application : Eric Decker
This project has couple of special meaning to me. Fist of all, I moved to NYC to do interactive installation jobs and this is the first project here. FB proposed clients installation projects since I joined and finally Pepsi accepted our proposal. Secondly, I learned how our work with simple idea makes people happy and then they make me happy again while staying in Austin for 5 days of SXSW Interactive. You might understand what I mean after looking at photos I took.
More Info at FB / Demonstration I / Demonstration II / SoBe Lizard at SXSW / More Photos
Especially we had to focus on how digital tattoos can be looked real because the main idea was ‘Virtually reskin yourself, then fool your friends‘. Users take a tattoo on their skin and send their friends a photo so that they believe it’s real tattoo. So Here is a list of what I did to add tattoos realism.
- Matching the quality of tattoo to user photo. Because the kiosk used a built-in low quality camera and the condition of space wasn’t perfect to take best quality photos so the quality of tattoo was reduced to match quality of them dynamically.
- Multiply Blend mode. It is basically used to overlap a tattoo to skin.
- Tattoo Opacity.
- Contour to skin. This part would be the most great part. The displacement map filter which is a Flash built in feature is mainly used to add skinning tattoo realism. The kiosk application reads pixel values, especially red channel this time, from user photos in runtime and performs a displacement effect on tattoos. By controlling amount of distortion, a tattoo can be not only overlapped as flat as a pancake but also mapped to skin based on user photos .
- Redness Opacity and Thickness.
- Transforming. This allows user to move, rotate, skew and scale a tattoo.
Transforming. This allows user to move, rotate, skew and scale a tattoo.
Launch Flash Demo / More Photos
Press::
Contagious Magazine: SXSW Interactive / Creative Marketing’s Critical Mass
Posted: March 17th, 2010 | Filed under: 03 General | No Comments »
I stayed last 6 days at SXSW for a SoBe digital tattoo installation project. It was a such great experience and I learned how our work with a simple idea makes people happy and then they make me happy again.
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Posted: February 28th, 2010 | Filed under: 00 Personal Memory | No Comments »
One show interactive has announced that the Big Boston Warm-up is 3rd quarter finalists in the category of Websites and Microsites:Social Networks/Community. I hope there would be good result at the end.
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Posted: February 17th, 2010 | Filed under: 00 Personal Memory | No Comments »
Firstborn named to Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, 2010.
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