:::Greed Race - animation for iPhone game:::

Here are some flash animated videos I created for the Greed Race, an iPhone game by Typical Mutations. The videos feature a guy who chases a coin and copes with unexpected obstacles!

:::Sounas animated videos featured on MotionServed.com once again!:::

Well, another project of mine (the Ericsson animated videos) is being featured on MotionServed.com at Motion Graphics category, a site supported by Behance.net. Nice!

:::Ilias Sounas in Athens Video Art Festival 2010 workshop:::

On Friday,May 7 I had a nice workshop as a speaker in Athens Video Art Festival about "Motion & Animation in digital era". The presentation took place in Greek Film Archive/Film Museum in Gazi,Athens. My presentation involved my latest animated works and a short demonstartion of my standard workflow through the Photoshop,Illustrator, Flash and After Affects applications. It was very nice. Thanks everyone for coming and thanks to Petros & Zina Papadopoulos for the official invitation :)

Athens Video Art Festival will be open untill Sunday, May 9 with many activities,exhibitions and screenings. For anyone who is interested to watch plenty of videos and animations (over 5 hours), you can visit Technopolis in Athens for a great time.

:::Ericsson Active Address Book animated video:::

This is an animated video I created in collaboration with House of Radon production house in Sweden.

It was made for Ericsson Active Address Book service and features happy mobile phone characters combined with live footage in agrey background. The characters were animated in Flash and I made the final composition in After Effects. Below you can see some stills from the video, the animated video itself (the music cover is not the one used in the final version) and some storyboard frames.

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:::Adobe Photoshop CS5: first impressions :::

So Photoshop CS5 is here and I have just taken a rough test to check this new edition.

To be honest, I was waiting for many great features and I was impressed by the sneak preview videos all these days. When I first launched the app, I can admit my impressions didn’t meet my expectations at full point. Ok, there were some new tools and orders, I played with Repousse (3D tool) but it wasn’t a critical experience. I really thought that CS4 was already a very great update and I was expecting more. It also seemed to me that the new PS didn’t work as fast as I expected. So, I quit the PS and proceeded to test another app from the Creative Suite 5.

After a while, I decided to re-launch Photoshop to play with all the new features a little bit more and then it hit me! This time, PS CS5 seemed to me a great product. So, here’s my short review of what's so nice in it: