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Hello!
We are HelloEnjoy™
Welcome to our blog, here you will find our latest work
powered by Papervision3D and Unity.
HelloRacer Unity
Our first piece for the Unity Web Player is called HelloRacer Unity and follows the racing tradition that started almost three years ago and still lives in my personal website carlosulloa.com.
We began playing with Unity during the summer with the intention of building iPhone apps. We released HelloRacer iPhone and had a lot of fun in the process, so we decided to dedicate a bit of time to the web player.
The Unity Web Player is the most powerful 3D platform we’ve worked on, and it certainly was a challenge to make good use of it. We focused our work on building a highly detailed experience, paying particular attention to the shaders and the physics.
We have found the Unity Web Player an excellent option for high-end 3D in the browser. While plug-in adoption is still very low, the quality of the experiences make installation worthwhile for most users. We don’t believe interactive 3D is just for games, as it has so much potential in other fields such as data visualization and advertising.
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Starbucks Love Project
We recently had the pleasure to participate in the Starbucks Love Project website for Tool of North America and BBDO NY.
In partnership with Product (RED), Starbucks has launched a campaign to help raise funds for and awareness of AIDS in Africa, featuring a CD with music from artists such as U2, John Legend and the Dave Matthews Band.
Our task was to build an interactive version of the CD for the website using Papervision3D. You can drag and spin it to see the list of tracks, click on them to listen to the songs and open the CD sleeve to watch the video.
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Site Of The Day: EnergyLab
We are super happy to see our latest work EnergyLab selected today as Site Of The Day in The FWA. Congrats to Grupo W. ¡Que viva México!
EnergyLab
So much energy has never before been contained in a bottle. You had better not touch it, one can never know what consequences it might have.
Our first commercial project as HelloEnjoy went live on July 22nd 2009. Built for our friends at Grupo W in Mexico, EnergyLab is a 3D puzzle where the fastest to complete it wins a trip to Russia to fly a L39 combat jet (like James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies).
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HelloRacer iPhone
On July 18th, our first iPhone app HelloRacer became available in the AppStore. Initial download figures surpassed our expectations, reaching the Top 25 of the Racing subcategory in several territories. User feedback has been very useful, with plenty of advice and constructive criticism.
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Hello!
We are HelloEnjoy™ and we are an interactive studio.
We play. We innovate. We think. We engineer. We develop. We create.
We do all of this with a love for each project, everyday. And we do this so that we can make new experiences, and new windows to new worlds.
This is our blog. We will post here news about the studio and insights about our work.
Enjoy.
Papervision3D
The home site of Papervision3D was conceived as an interactive experience to showcase the full power of the engine at the time of launch, May 5th 2007. First presented at FITC Toronto 2007, it puts the user inside a coral reef scene where they can look around and interact with the different fish.
This piece features different types of objects and materials. The panorama skybox is a cube segmented by 7×7×7, for a total of 294 triangles. Each face has its own material that is loaded separately.
There are 70 fish, made of 5 plane objects in straight hierarchy, with transparent textures divided in pieces at runtime. Animation is calculated for each plane, and assigned as XZ position and rotationY. That’s another 700 triangles. The jellyfish is a simple 2-triangle plane, with an alpha video texture of 180 frames. It changes position randomly, twice on every loop.
And the shark is a COLLADA object of 1104 triangles with different materials for body, mouth and teeth. Custom 2D skinning is applied on its vertices, converting XZ position to polar coordinates. A very basic AI is used to flock the fish and shark around. It also handles their speed, flapping and turning.
carlosulloa.com
Launched May 8th 2007, this interactive toy car was the presentation website for carlosulloa.com our new business as interactive 3D shop, a year before founding HelloEnjoy.
It features one of the seminal demos in the development of Papervision3D, a simple racing car, included in the examples of the engine code since first beta. It is very easy to use, just use cursor keys to drive the car and click on the background to restart.
It was the first in a series of interactive 3D car projects that have taught us much about how to push 3D technologies on the Web and mobile devices.
Noventaynueve.com
Made in Barcelona and launched March 13th 2006, Noventaynueve.com is the old portfolio of Carlos and the first website ever built with Papervision3D, the 3D engine that opened the third dimension to the Flash platform.
It features the first version of the flying papers effect, which later became a common feature of many PV3D sites and kickstarted the engine development. It was created in Flash 7 using ActionScript 2.
Click on the 99 logo and portfolio items arrive flying to form a grid around the centre, spiralling out from newest to oldest. Main navigation through the gallery is by rolling over items, the ones under the cursor remain static while the rest of the grid decomposes in flying planes. A secondary navigation in the Projects tab on the right locks the grid in its initial position to browse the items by list.
