movement, movement

The past week has been so busy for me that I almost forgot to mention a big project that we launched last week at work. 

The project is what we call a micro-site, or a subsection of a larger site. This particular micro-site is the redesign of the athletes section on NikeGolf.com. If you’d like to see it live on the web you can either click that link and click the “Athletes” button at the top, or click here to go straight to the athletes page.

I’ll keep the description here short, but if you’re interested in reading more, I also blogged about it on the Flash blog that myself and my fellow developers co-author.

The Athletes section features a 3D carousel displaying the many tournament wins achieved by Nike Athletes this year. It also is built to accept many forms of media (video, images, wallpapers, etc.) and a list of particular athletes’ Nike equipment. All five members of the Flash team took part in the project and pulled it together to meet a very serious deadline. I might also mention that the 3D rendering on the carousel section is true 3D rendering, and in ActionScript 2, no less. For those who don’t know much about Flash, thats not an easy feat. 

I’ll try to keep posting as we launch more and more sites that I’ve had a hand in developing. (More 3D stuff on the way, this week I’ve been working with Papervision.) Its been one of the best experiences of my life working at Summit and I’m particularly proud of the NikeGolf Athletes section, as I had a major hand in its core structuring and development. Its been one of the first sites or micro-sites that I’ve had this major of a role in developing at Summit.