The user has to be careful not to scare away the timid creatures of the sea with fast movements. Once the user has befriended the fish through smiles, head tilts and tickles, they are given a photo of themselves and their new friend (captured when smiles are detected of course), to share with their real life friends on facebook.

The site uses a range of technologies and libraries, including Away3D, Facebook API, Robotlegs, Face Detection, Smile Detection and Colour Tracking.

A visualisation of the team developing Greenseas.

Using our little green character Proto, we were able to quickly create a simple demonstration, that allowed users to touch anywhere on the screen and have him walk to that location.

You can download the String Showcase for yourself on iTunes.

The ‘Digital Muse’ provides users an experience of intimate interaction with Lindsay Lohan in a way not seen with AR blurring the line between viewing and interacting with content.

Provocative footage of Lindsay shot for this campaign creates a fantasy narrative and reflects the traditional notions of the femme fatale, and the dangerous and intoxicating woman.

Marc Ecko and his talented team have been fun and inspiring to collaborate with, there has been no shortage of creative vision that is clearly seen in the overall campaign and site.

31136621 from Pleribus on Vimeo.

My involvement on this project began with initial prototypes, overall approach for the development team, and assisting the development team working on the website later in the project’s development cycle to help get it over the line, as well as past code brought in from other projects.

Below is a visualization of the team building Marc Ecko’s Digital Muse

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Boffswana were engaged by Mark (M&C Saatchi Sydney) to develop a website that connected with Facebook to allow users to integrate themselves and their friends into a live action video.

The result is Mr Know It All, a campaign about Samsungs new Social Hub phone, which allows customers to combine all of their social feeds into the one interface.

Mr Know It All knows everything, about everybody, in his social circle. It’s the Office meets Social Networking.

Samsung – Mr Know It All from Pleribus on Vimeo.

The site was built on a combination of the Gaia Framework and RobotLegs, and presented a number of challenging technical hurdles to overcome in a very short timeframe. RobotLegs allowed the development team to work seamlessly together on various components of the site and rapidly bring them together with little fuss.

A visualisation of the team developing the site:

Developing Mr Know It All from Pleribus on Vimeo.

Awards:

• Gold for Best Microsite – John Caples International Awards.
• Bronze for Best Use of Online Video – Adfest Cyber Lotus
• Bronze for Best Integrated Cyber Campaign – Adfest Cyber Lotus

Warner Bros. (US) commissioned Boffswana to let users “Release The Kraken!” as Zeus (Liam Neeson) bellows in the movie Clash Of The Titans.

My first commercial Unity3D project at Boffswana, the Augmented Reality application recognises the print out, and places a 3D scene on the paper. The cove environment extends into the paper as if it’s a window into another dimension. The highly detailed 3D Kraken emerges from the ocean to a dramatic soundtrack, and the user is able to move the scene, even pushing right into the world to get a closer look.

The user is also able to press S to have the Kraken swipe, and R to make the Kraken roar.

The site was developed to be deployed for other languages easily, through XML and external images.

Clash Of The Titans – Release The Kraken from Pleribus on Vimeo.

Players launch themselves into the air by timing the power bar to get maximum height.  They are then able to steer themselves as they fly through the air with the aim of staying in the air as long as possible and scoring maximum points.  Players steer themselves through the air bouncing off hot air balloons or finding up currents to gain extra air time.  Collecting bottle caps and landing in a designated target area give you extra points.

Coke Summer Blast from Pleribus on Vimeo.

Wrigley’s 5 Gum “Stimulates Your Senses”  was the core objective of the new www.5gum.fr website.

The innovative site targets both the visual and auditory senses.

Boffswana was engaged to create a site utilising Augmented Reality to enable users to listen and control various music tracks as a sound mixer. Once three base tracks have been selected, users can modify the audio being played through the simultaneous use of three controlling markers.

Boffswana enjoyed collaborating with M&C Saatchi and Mark for their client Optus and their new brand campaign Whale Song.

Showing off skills in Realtime Papervision3D in Flash we were responsible for the creation of the underwater environment including the modeling, texturing and animation of the whale as well as the creation of the environment it lives in.

Boffswana created the interface to ‘communicate’ with the whale. By pressing various keys on the keyboard, orchestral music is played through the underwater speakers creating attraction points within the environment that the whale will want to swim too. The attractiveness of these points in the environment to the whale varies with user’s activity on the keyboard. The whale has a series of movements and levels of activity that are relative to the intensity of the user’s interaction with the keyboard and the composing of music for the whale.

Optus Whale Song from Pleribus on Vimeo.

Awards:

• Site of the day – FWA – Favourite Website Awards
• Silver – Microsite Category – 32nd John Caples International Awards

The ground breaking project gives you the ability to ‘mess’ with the Jack Link’s Beef Jerky Sasquatch in a whole new way by bringing him out of your computer, onto your desk!

You can choose from 35 different Sasquatch animations and add them to a timeline and record your interaction with the Sasquatch through an intuitive and easy to use drag and drop interface.

You can even add speech bubbles to give Sasquatch a voice!

Once these short movies have been created, you can send them to friends and add the movies to the public gallery. Movies in the gallery then receive “Stomps of approval” or votes from other viewers of the site.

Living Sasquatch from Pleribus on Vimeo.

It’s movie making with a difference where you are the writer, editor, director and co-star with your very own 3D Sasquatch.

Visualisation of the development process:

Developing Living Sasquatch from Pleribus on Vimeo.

Awards:

• Site of the day – FWA – Favourite Website Awards

GPY&R came to Boffswana to develop an online interactive 3D character and Facebook Application for their client Cadbury Schweppes Australia. The campaign for their Spring Valley brand, involves ‘finding and meeting’ your own ‘Sensible’; a comical character that inhabits us all, is directly impacted by our lifestyle choices and exists to remind us that we occasionally need to do something good for our bodies. The aim of the site is to allow users to see and interact with their own Sensible, inform their Sensible as to what they have been up to, and then care for their Sensible.

Save Your Sensible from Pleribus on Vimeo.

Awards:

• Site of the day - FWA – Favourite Website Awards
• Silver – MADC Best Microsite 2009
• Bronze – MADC Best Integrated Campaign 2009
• Bronze – One Show Interactive 2009
• Finalist AIMIA – Best Advertising or Marketing 2009