This impressive whirling Flash CMS gallery created with Papervision 3D is highly functional and will perfectly work for any purpose portfolio: a photographer’s, artist’s, designer’s portfolios, online exhibitions, model agencies, creative groups, etc.

The portfolio is equipped with an interactive 3D gallery in the form of a circle that runs around when you mouse over the page. If you wish to stop the gallery, point the cursor over it. To open a big image preview, just click on its thumbnail.

You can create a great number of albums within the gallery and sort your images according to categories. For each gallery  its own circle sub-gallery is created. The “prev” and “next” interactive arrow buttons allow to easily navigate the sub-galleries. The interactive drop down menu is not only attractive visually – it offers the visitors an extremely comfortable way of the website navigation.

This template is a full-fledged Flash website that can be easily modified through Moto Flash CMS integrated. If you are not familiar with the opportunities of Moto CMS for Flash, you will be pretty excited with the system functionality, the widest opportunities it offers, and almost intuitive interface that allows to create Flash website with minimum efforts. It is possible to add elements and effects, create pages and pop-ups, integrate new modules and fonts, and much more. A really great component is Flash image editor that provides a rich editing toolset for modifying images: to zoom in and out images as well as scale them, rotate horizontally or vertically or change the angle, resize or crop your images, change image hue, saturation and color balance, adjust contrast and brightness, add effects to images, etc.

A really cool feature of this Flash CMS gallery is the ability to change the background. It can be achieved with the help of Background image slot integrated into the control panel. Moreover, you can customize your background image to your liking. There are such functions as full screen mode, alignment, rotation, alpha and blend mode. Also, you can easily add the effects: bevel, blur, color, glow or shadow.

Try the DEMO and appreciate the advantages of this amazing Flash CMS gallery from MotoCMS!

For those who are really interested in Papervision 3D and are in search of some interesting Flash gallery solutions, we recommend to visit our Moto Flash CMS templates – Papervision 3D templates.

]]> http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/new-flash-portfolio-whirling-papervision-3d-gallery/feed/ 7 http://www.motocms.com/blog/flash-cms-templates/fresh-and-inspiring-flash-photo-gallery-solutions/ http://www.motocms.com/blog/flash-cms-templates/fresh-and-inspiring-flash-photo-gallery-solutions/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:58:03 +0000 Admin http://www.motocms.com/?p=2435 It's no secret that Flash Photo gallery is the most asked-for component among our customers. And it is precisely this fact that explains the popularity of the Flash CMS templates created especially for photographer's/designer's portfolios, design studios or model agencies websites. Dynamic interactive image gallery is a must have for such web pages.]]> It’s no secret that Flash Photo gallery is the most asked-for component among our customers. And it is precisely this fact that explains the popularity of the Flash CMS templates created especially for photographer’s/designer’s portfolios, design studios or model agencies websites. Dynamic interactive image gallery is a must have for such web pages.

And today we want to focus your attention on the recently added Flash CMS Galleries powered up by FlashMoto. These fresh and inspiring photo galleries present the creative and original ideas of displaying images online and impress both in terms of functionality and professional look.

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Flower Style Image Gallery created on Papervision 3D

What makes this Flash design unique and original is an amazing flower style image gallery done on Papervision 3D. The advanced Photo gallery may contain the unlimited number of images. Each image has a thumbnail what makes searching and browsing more convenient. Moreover, each photo may have a short description and may link to a pop-up, any website page or even external URL.

There are two types of menu: classic two-level menu and graphical 3D menu that uses Papervision 3D library. This graphical 3D menu makes it possible to use images and descriptions for each menu element.

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Dark Style Flash CMS Design for a Photo Portfolio

This ready-made Flash CMS design presents a stylish way of showcasing images online that can be grouped according to the albums. You may create as many image galleries as you wish and add buttons for them on the splash page. The buttons positions are also customizable. The image preview suits well both for horizontal and vertical photos. Moreover, via Flashmoto Flash CMS you can specify the size and color for the image thumbnail.

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Flash CMS Gallery with Drawing Effect

This Flash CMS template is equipped with an amazing Photo gallery with photo descriptions and image preview of any size. The image thumbnails can be linked not only to big image previews, but also to other website pages, pop-up and even to external URL materializing the most original and diverse ideas.

This is a “stylish” solution for the design studios, creative groups or just designer’s portfolios. You will never be tired of the design color scheme, as the background colors are completely customizable via Flashmoto control panel. Moreover, you may switch between two colors while browsing a website. But what makes this Flash CMS gallery really peculiar is the ability to draw simple fanciful designs using a mouse cursor.

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Design Studio Flash CMS Template with a Compact Gallery

This Flash CMS design is equipped with an impressive interactive photo gallery that easily expands to fit any size or screen resolution. You may create as many galleries as you wish and embed them into any page. By the way, have you noticed the stunning transition effects between the images in the gallery? And that’s not all. This ready-made design is equipped with a music player with a playlist. So, now you can upload your favorite tracks and provide your visitor’s with a pleasant sound accompaniment.

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Interactive Flash Gallery with the CMS

The built-in image gallery has a horizontal scroll bar that makes browsing more convenient and creates pleasant interactive experience for visitors. There are two kinds of navigation menu: vertical one at the top right and horizontal one at the bottom. By the way, the website menu is created in accordion style and drops down once you hover a mouse cursor over the tabs.

A couple of words should be mentioned concerning the gallery features. Each image may have a short description and may link to different pages, pop-up or external URLs. This Flash CMS gallery has already had a built-in FlashMoto control panel that allows you to fast and easily update your website with no coding required.

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Full-Fledged Flash CMS Gallery

This is a complete Flash CMS website with already integrated FlashMoto control panel. You will be pretty excited with the number of Flash photo galleries this Flash CMS template is equipped with. There are 3 of them:
1. The background Image Gallery. You might have noticed that while moving from page to page, the background is also changing.
2. Compact Gallery.
3. Full page Gallery. This gallery is very flexible and automatically resizes against to the screen size. It provides two types of image preview: thumbnail and big preview.

Here is an example of the Full Page Gallery.

Compact gallery is fully customizable and provides only big image preview. It looks like this:

1. Zamuel Hube Gallery
This original art gallery made on Papervision3D belongs to a Finnish painter Zamuel Hube. I liked the idea a lot, it creates the feeling that I’m going along this gallery viewing the amazing masterpieces.

2. Mercedes-amg
Here is one of the Mercedes AMG SL65 Black Series websites. As you see, even such famous brands as Mercedes have websites developed on Papervision3D. By dragging a cursor, you can see a car from different sides. you can click on elements to see a gallery of images and videos.

3. Foot Locker
Here is one of the catchy and dynamic papervision3D websites that belongs to Foot Locker, exclusive sports wear distributer.

4. Plantate
I really enjoyed browsing this website full of funny characters, cute animation and graphic effects. The website represents the whole imaginative world. This project was done by igriega

5. Hook USA
At first it looks simple but you’ll soon realize that it’s a original, cool and smooth website with a fresh approach. This website was done by BlueIon for Hook, an ad agency located in Charleston (USA).

6. Q-films
A website for Q.films, an independent film company, conveys a certain coolness. The navigation peppered with some 3d elements and animation like flash components . After browsing through it, I have to say that it is quite impressive from a technical point of view.

7. TBC
This a website done by Ringo especially for TBC, a full-service advertising agency and public relations company based in Baltimore. The main website features are simplicity and originality in content presentation.

8. West Coast Cornhole
It’s a cool website with lot’s of shiny tricks and intense on Papervision3d. Very enjoyable experience!

9. Zara Media
This Papervision3d powered website belongs to Zara Media Design Group, a brand agency from Salt Lake City. They did a great job! Simplicity in design and navigation is their mainadvantage.

10. X-prime
X-Prime, a french digital agency, now can boast of its amazing brand new website complete with a Papervision 3D interface. Good job!

That’s it for now. Your comments are always welcome. See you later!

1. Park Seasons – same tree in 4 seasons just drag your mouse around the tree.
One of the things that I was curious about when using Papervision3D was how the camera moves around and tracks other objects. I think that developer of this website has the same problem. Set up a Camera3D object and moved it around which is not playing well enough to make it OMG-papervision3D example!

2. Papervision3D Panorama
Perfection in simplicity! As i’ve told before about XM Radio website. It’s simple work but so damn good and attractive that it worth your another look.

3. Eco Zoo
Also mentioned by me in my previous post The Flash Fantasy but I didn’t mention that it was made on Papervision3D. This website is still breathtaking and worth to look at it once again. Still the fastest and the cutest one.

4. Pepsi
This one was developed by Muskedunder Interactive for TriggerMomentum and Pepsi Sweden. All I could say is “PEPSI – next generation”. They simply know what they are doing when we are speaking about how to attract teenagers.
It’s on Sweden but instructions are simple:
- Click a character to select difficulty level (LÄTT = easy, MEDEL =medium, SVÅR = hard)
- Press FGHJ in rythm with music
- Enjoy!

5. Motor Storm – the Game.
Yes, I wrote the word Game from the big G! This flash Game is short and lunker but it really stands for Papervision3D and shows all it’s features (I think).

6. Neglected Sensible Shalter – save your Sensible.
Remember the last widget for Facebook “Save your Alien!”. That’s the same. Actually this one was 1st. Great animation effects.

7. Underwater – gorgeous aquarium.
Actually it’s the homepage of Papervision3D.org. It’s like telling you – “Hey! Check this out! Don’t read all that manuals and so on and so forth.” Terrific work. Reminds me the oldies Aquarium Fish Screensaver.

8. The Werewolf – mighty and scary 3d model in action!
The final one and the most breathtaking example of Papervision3D. The scary werewolf in action which is terrifying with it’s sound effects and delighting with it’s coolness.

That’s it for now. Feel free to comment these websites.

- Inverse kinematics

Now this is a real treasure for the Flash animation fans! Now Flash CS4 allows so-called “bones” – just like in 3D applications. This means that you can apply a skeleton to the objects and they instantly become interconnected. Therefore when you animate one element the rest of the skeleton will be animated with it:

You may see it all in action at the proper page of the Flash player 10 developers.

And here you can see lots of Flash CS4 capabilities in a single video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnJKimyTIjo

In fact Astro (code name of the new Flash player 10) really does provide many new capabilities. They will be especially obvious for ActionScript 3 developers that will operate with a lot more of the new features – they are all available at the developers’ features page.

Is there any future for modern 3D engines and is it worth it to learn ActionScript that you need for using PaperVision 3D, Away 3D or Sandy 3D if in a month or two there will be Flash CS4 which will enable you to produce a really interactive 3D animation without knowing ActionScript? Especially if the productivity of such animation will be higher?

It may sound weird for those who are not familiar with programming – yes, it is still worth it. Yes, Adobe’s developers have provided 3D features and you will be able to rotate the objects in a new perspective. But what about the concept of camera and all of its properties? It is absolutely essential for the whole idea of 3D. A huge number of features are impossible without camera and its motion through the space. The same thing is about the 3D primitives – plane, cube, sphere etc. And we would all still want to import the 3D models from the external editors, to work with shaders, lighting sources and object’s physical properties. All of that is now available in Flash 3D frameworks with the only disadvantage of low productivity – which I am sure will be partially fixed soon.