For the piece I really wanted to utilize dynamic information to power a flash application. After researching I came across several API’s for actiosncript 3.o and after polling a number of people found that last.fm’s API would appeal to the largest target audience.
So my squid started out as “Design Tag”, something us RIT kids do when we have free time. I had always wanted to do something underwater with squids so in about 2 hours I quickly came up with this:
I put some time aside to render out a bee to be used for my bitmap world in AS3. Even though the bee will only end up being 50×50 pixels, but it never hurts to go over kill and render out big models to show off. Later for the final I ended up using a …