:::Peer Pressure:::

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Here are some of my latest illustrations with vibrant colours and lights.

:::New illustration::::

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This piece of artwork represents the absolute power of Photoshop for photo editing and illustration capability. Some of the shapes where created in Illustrator as well. The original photo of Goldmund was bought from iStockphoto and it is really amazing. The model gave me a lot of inspiration, though I had to tackle a lot of problems like cutting around the model, especially her hair, get rid of the green light cast all over her body and even colour her minimal clothes. But as you can see everything did go well :) I like it...

::::Site of the Day from Web Design Library for Sounasdesign.com::::

Another award this week for my site.
This time comes from the Web Design Library and has listed my portfolio as a "Site of the Day for May 21". Thanks :)

http://www.webdesign.org/showcase/site-of-the-day

::::Flash festival in Torino, Italia (!)::::

Great news for my both short flash animations "Space Alone" and "The Circle of Life". They are finalist films in Torino Flash Festival which will be held from May 21 to May 23.
For more information visit the official site:
http://www.flashfestival.it/english/home.htm

Updated info: The winner of Torino FlashFestival 2007 was THE WHITE, THE BLACK of Andrei Bakhurin from Russia
My animation "Circle of life", the "Ce que je suis" of french Joris Clerté and "the Circus Boulevard" Cristina Ferrian e Pierpaolo Rovero were granted the "Mention of Quality" recognition. It's an honour for me :)

:::Extreme New Illustration:::

This is the latest illustration for Extreme shop in Chania.

:::Extreme Fashion in Chania:::

Extreme in Chania is the most fashionable shop in Crete by Zagourakis Artemis for demanding customers. So he always wants demanding illustrations from me.
This summer you can find a big illustration of mine outside its shop in Platanias and a colourful leaflet.

:::Tag Society::: Awards for Sounasdesign website

Today my site was added to "The Best of Tag Society" where you can find "The best of the best at TagSociety.com. Websites that stand out from the rest..."
My site has been added to great portals so far and I 'm waiting for more recognitions to come. This makes me really happy since I tried to design a beautiful yet dynamic portfolio in Flash.

I'm also in Gomma directory http://www.gommamag.com

The recognitions so far:
thewebaward.com
coolstop.com
mydesignaward.com
newwebpick.com
e-motionaldesign.com (site of the day)
pagecrush.com
coolhomepages.com
gouw.nu
coolestdesigns.com
linkas.net
internetvibes.net
flashkit.com
tagsociety.com/the-best

Sounasdesign.com has been added to design blogs,too.
Pure pleasure design
http://www.purepleasuredesign.com/blog/?p=38
Theyedropper
http://theyedropper.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/ilas-sounas/

"Grafistas+web design" magazine issue 43

"Grafistas+web design" magazine issue 43 is out!
Cover illustration is mine and i have provided some really good tutorials:

- Learn everything about Masks and Alpha Channel in Photoshop
- Create artwork in "Scanner Darkly" style in Illustrator
- Great review for the upcoming potential of Flash Lite and create your own mobile portfolio for symbian from the scratch with Flash Lite!!!
- News,news, news....

I'm alredy preparing material for issue 44, which I hope it will be great.

Flashlite and C++ conference

Two days ago I attended the first Flashlite and C++ conference in Athens presented succesfuly by the developers Giorgio Natili and Vasilis Legakis. Next event will be held in London, Paris, Rome.
The seminar was free and its outline was:
- Introduction to Symbian C++
- Major differences to classic C++ development
- Brief introduction to FlashLite
- FlashLite and the network
- FlashLite and external applications
- Integration between Flashlite and C++
Giorgio Natili is a skilled flash developer (GNStudio, actionscript.it) and Vasilis Legakis is an expert C++ developer (vlegakis@gmail.com)
Unfortunately there were a few attendants. It would be better if there were more Greeks interested in Flash device market. I think Flashlite (or flash in general) is the future for all handheld devices.

You can find more details for the next events here

Space Alone- Flash animation

You can check my website for my new flash animation
but you can watch it here, too:

Flash conference material

My presentation was for
"Flash for animation and motion graphics" and you can see some pics from the material I used. If you want to download it you can get it here:
Download pdf

FMX and Flashconference 2007

Fmx festival 2007 is over but it was great!!!


Many congratulations to Wolfgang Schmidt, the ultimate organizer of the Flashconference, the section exclusively for Flash. I feel very lucky for choosing me as one of the speakers of this year's conference. I had a great time in beautiful Stuttgart, met a lot of friends (greetings to Holger, Aaron, Christian, Clarissa) and I really suggest to all of you who are interested in animation industry (both in 3d and 2d) to visit Fmx definetely next year.
flashconference.defmx.de



Concerning my presentation for Flashconference, I hope you liked it and at least you learned something useful both for your storytelling and flash animation skills. And thanks for your comments about Space Alone, my new flash animation.



Flashconference (the part which has to do with the Flash field) hosted great international persons:
-Greg Rewis presented the new Actionscript strongpoints of Flash CS3
-Peter Elst from Belgium talked about the upcoming potential of Flash and Flash Lite in alternative devices (like PSP, Chumby, mobile etc.)
-Claus Wahlers from Brazil demonstrated the new flash ui components with Actionscript 3.0
-Boris Lakowski and Peter Reichard from Scholz & Volkmer presented their interactive project for Mercedes-Benz.com. Combining flexible actionscript capabilities with Google Maps allowed users to track 33 Mercedes models on their route from Paris to Beijing.
-Mario Klingemann managed to create abstract art pieces through actionscript code and randomness of graphics.
-Marcos Weskamp revealed the exact process for creating a real world Actionscript 3 project from the scratch to finish.
-Holger Eggert and Clarissa Stecher from Berlin talked about the principles of storytelling and showed some of their projects like Color and their new achievement "Gloaming", web based comic in Flash.
-André Michelle demonstrated the true power of Actionscript 3 for advanced audio handling in Flash.

These were honestly top projects.


Fmx in general was a great experience by attending the best talks and screenings of top level studios like Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks etc. One of the best presentations I attended to was "Gobelins" animation school from Paris. I think they provide high level courses and their students work is fantastic! Of course there was a thorough presentation of Adobe's new suite, which I think it will blow your mind when you see all the features in full detail.

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