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Dustin J Sparks

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2009
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My Indy Race Car Widget flashcs4illustratorcs4photoshopcs4

This flash widget was created to serve as a decentralized, viral application to promote the main Indycar builder application. It was coded in Actionscript 3 and perfectly mimics the main design tool. It allows the user to create and share their designs with friends via the clearspring platform.

Directions

  • Click "built it" to launch the external car customizer
  • Enter the generated code into the box to generate your car.

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LevelSix PR Website and CMS photoshopcs4dreamweavercs4codaphpajax

This website was done for a company in Indianapolis. The design was created by another design company then transferred to me as an Adobe Photoshop file. I was able to chop the file into parts that I needed, then moved it into an HTML/CSS layout that perfectly matched the Photoshop file. The CMS behind the website is a custom CMS built by the original company along with heavy modifications done by me.

Directions

  • Explore the website using the provided navigation options.

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2007
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Interactive Television Prototype flashcs3photoshopcs3php

This project was done as part of an intensive course on interactive television at Ball State. While another team of computer scientists were building a televised version, I was responsible for building the web version. We collaborated as much as possible, sharing RSS feeds and content managements systems that we built using PHP. A group of News designers provided most of the graphics.

Directions

  • Click the video to pause and play the 'live' broadcast.
  • Click one of the icons below the screenshots to play a package.
  • Click the minimized NLI Live thumbnail to restore the 'live' broadcast.

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Flasm (Generative Art) flash8

This project is currently setup in an installation in the Center for Media Design at Ball State University. It was also featured in a Muncie area art show. The program was heavily inspired by the original by Liquid Journey. It uses a complex algorithm and the flash drawing API to draw pixel by pixel each 'particle'. As time goes on the colors morph from one to another. No pixels are discarded during this process resulting in the overlapping effect.

Directions

  • Click and hold the mouse anywhere on the flash application.
  • Hold for an arbitrary amount of time, then release.

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2006
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Tile Scroller Engine flash8

I built this engine originally for a game that I was working on for a digital media class. The game has an editor for it that made it easy enough for the average student to design a level and make it live. Unfortunately my teacher decided that it was too complex for the class and I was told not to pursue it for the class. I continued to modify it outside of class to make it easily modifiable.

Directions

  • Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the character around the map.

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2005
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Center for Media Design Micro site Mock-up flash8photoshopcs2

This is a mock-up for a micro site for the Center for Media Design at Ball State. The micro site was to be setup to showcase student produced video webisodes. The banners were meant to hold video segments representing each scene in the webisode. The banners are draggable and expand to show more video segments at any given time. As a little added effect I incorporated pendulum physics on the banners when the site loads.

Directions

  • Click on the bottom of a banner and drag it up and down.

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Lawson Flooring Microsite flash8photoshopcs2php

This is a live micro-site built about 2 years ago using Flash 8 and Photoshop CS2. The website is very small and compact, designed this way to fit easily inside other websites. It can also be defined as a widget or gadget that also serves as a stand-alone website. I spent about a week building the front-end design and animation as well as the backend PHP contact form and content management system.

Directions

  • Click the links to navigate and use the scrollbars to scroll content.

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