MINI is introducing his new cabrio. And voilá a webspecial that features one giant turntable shot and 5 fullscreen videos to present the most important features.
During the development phase there were up to four flash developers involved to hold the given timeline. We used different open source libraries including PureMVC as a ground framework and Papervision 3D for the different text animations.
My first Flex project for a paying client came to life with new car configurator for BMW flagship. This configurator was developed for the german market only.
My main responsibility in this project was the V of MVC. Meaning that I took a deep dive into component development and the whole life cycle design of those components. Quickly learning that developing components in MXML is fast but when it comes to performance there is no way around to write them in pure AS3.
Having started with 2 core developers we ended with up to 8 developers working simultanously to hold the narrow timeline given by BMW. Really crazy but it worked out quite well.
Recently my employer interone worldwide decided to relaunch their CI and of course the corporate website had to be relaunched as well. Just have a look and decide for yourself if you like it or not ;-)
If you type a phrase in the searchfield that doesn’t leed to an exsisting content you are free to add this content by yourself. The users can write, draw, upload pictures and many more to design the new page.
The 3Series Sedan got a facelift and of course this needs to be celebrated with a multimedia special. Here we go!
The special features views in real life size. You can scroll over 4 different perspectives in a Google Maps style of navigation. The several content and information areas are all located directly on the surface of the BMW. Of course you also have premium video and audio content to watch and listen to.
This special was my first project to try the PureMVC framework in a real work project.
What can I say. Another relaunch of big corporate website. It now inlcudes a real fancy but in a way crazy flash navigation – actually a little application by itself.
Also there are two similar bigger flash modules that show offices, ships and trades of the company throughout the world. Both the modules and the navigation where build on basis of the PureMVC framework. While starting with TweenLite as my tweening engine of choice, I finally had to switch to Tweener as TweenLite seems to have real issues withe overlapping tweens. After switching to Tweener everything just worked out very smoothly.
Actually I wanted to gather some information about the well known Cairngorm framework to see how it works and what principles the implementation follows. But quickly I found out that there might be a new star on the horizon to admire:
“PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model, View and Controller concept.
Just my first post to see, how it goes. Let’s get it started…