tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57556685706119405922026-05-31T06:20:39.718-04:00A preview of things to come.Quy Ngohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03081499936799358967noreply@blogger.comBlogger436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755668570611940592.post-50876641227418690572012-01-30T23:01:00.000-05:002012-01-30T23:01:27.078-05:00

It's been hell week(s) for me where I haven't had a lot of time to post what I've been working on lately. My latest project was for Revolve an Ad Agency in Nova Scotia where I had the opportunity to work on a set of UFC banner ads. The build required 10x standard banner ads, 1x Voken banner ad and 1x Takeover banner ad. You'll need to click the links to view the Voken and Takeover banner ads.

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Simple email campaign for the University of Toronto. I was looking up universities before I received this project and UofT is ranked as one of the top Universities in the world. Pretty cool it's just in our back yard but for me it might as well be across the world. I hate travelling to the downtown core. It's mainly why I try to avoid working for any ad agencies because of the wasted travel

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With all the talk about email mailers that reminds me of a useful tool that came in handy called MailChimp. When I was building out some email campaigns and needed to run some test deployments I normally send it through a simple and basic mailer I wrote in PHP that sat on my server. The only problem was one day it stopped working or should I say there was a huge delay of 1 - 2 hrs before I

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This was an interesting project where I was only in charge of the video player. The functionality and look was very similar to Vimeo's player with the addition of other functional aspects. The interesting part was the HTML I received. It was more or less "off" before I got a chance to touch it. In the freelance world it's a game of hot potato. So to cover my bases I made a back up on my server

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Imagine you had to code an html email campaign with no CSS not a single line of it to produce the same results as the photoshop file. That's exactly what happened in the case of building HTML email for SickKids. Just to be fair it wasn't SickKids that imposed these rules but Reader's Digest who is going to serve up the HTML. If you're a developer your next thought is to slice up the design

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I find it funny because the argument is how deadlines kill the creative process and yet another deadline is made in the video. I feel for anyone who works in a creative field that has ever suffered with tight deadlines but that is normal every day occurrence for me. I agree the quality of work is dependent on the amount of time spent on the process but with creativity it is

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  If only advertising agencies really changed their business models and modeled it around cats. If only I had a video camera when I was a kid and had all these cats. I could have had millions in internet theoretical dollars!

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I wanted to write this post since this morning but got caught up in some work and wouldn't you know it Time Machine thought it was a good time to start backing up your files. If you've ever used Time Machine you'll know what I'm talking about but when the backup happens your system starts to slow down drastically which totally messes up my work flow. My only option was to either stop it and&nbsp

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The new Thundercats gets a parody made from timeless memes.

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A huge share of the US nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. Read the full details on Mother Jones.

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An infograph showing some of the highest & lowest college job salaries.

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Working with Proximity Paris a few summers ago was absolutely crazy. I was on several different projects with several different agencies at the time. Mostly in my time zone but Paris operates on the opposite time zone. I had basically had no time to sleep as I was constantly jumping back and forth from local projects to Paris projects. End of day in Toronto was the time Paris was getting

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Very fun banner ad to be involved in where we took some video of a truck driver and integrate it into the ad. It's a small portion of the ad so file size wasn't an issue. What was really fun was being able to make the FedEx truck drive out of the ad and make it look like it's hooking up to the container. Which then drives off the page which is the reverse of a voken or expandables 

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I don't get very many requests for takeovers but this one was the first request where I had to actually build the system to handle the takeover. Nothing outside of my realm of expertise but was enjoyable. I think the best part was taking these demo tracks that the client wanted to use and create loops out of them. I take a lot of pride in my flash skills but I have the same regard when it comes

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It's been done to death literally but I'm really looking forward to a CG based zombie movie. Watch the trailer you'll know what I mean. This trailer got so much attention that a movie deal was made. It's in the initial process so it's no guarantee that it'll still happen but I got my fingers crossed.

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In my case Drake would be saying why you playing on easy mode. Hard to find time to play games in my line of work. When I do play I play on easy mode so I can get through the game quick. I'm not a fan of dying over and over trying to get some sort of achievement that no one in the real world is going to care about. Hoping people in the movie biz will catch on and start making more video game

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A lengthy yet informative look into the education system in the US. Anyone who knows me will tell you my stance on the state of our educational system. "School is a place for people too lazy to read for themselves; so they pay other people to read for them." - Tara Thorton

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Last night I was installing bootcamp and if you don't know this already Lion OS X will only allow you to install Windows 7. I'm used to installing Windows XP which is just mashing on the next button. However, this resulted in the deletion of a very important partition which handles the reverting of bootcamp. The mistake I made was selecting the 200MB partition and formatting that vs the

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The short answer is between March & September but the long answer would be all year round. One of the greatest things about designing/developing for the web is the exposure to useful tools. One of those tools I use on a regular basis to help me answer client related queries is Google Insight. In this example I applied Google Insight to help me figure out when users are actively querying

Quy Ngohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03081499936799358967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755668570611940592.post-55894766688247096252011-09-11T19:47:00.000-04:002011-09-13T10:07:08.789-04:00

The web is unpredictable which makes it very similar to the sea and with the introduction of html5 its a pretty rough sea out there. Especially for Flash developers as it's almost become a witch hunt for anyone who uses flash. The constant jabs by Jobs doesn't make things easier to explain to people who revere's him as a messiah. One who eats the white apple from the forbidden tree of

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I want to dedicate this blog post to the guy who found me on kijiji and bought my drawing table. We met last Friday after work he called me to let me know he was on his way. He sounded very eager to buy my drawing table and I was really curious why but I wasn't the type to pry into his reasonings. He drove up in a shiny red souped up car and came up to the garage to inspect the item

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Loved how the pinwheel animation turned out in this HP banner ad. Just another well built banner ad for Proximity Toronto.

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Greg learns about Hitler and the Nazis. This kid is an amazing actor I'm looking forward to watching more of his antics as he grows as an actor.

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Star Wars kid talks about everything that has happened after the 10 years. Wow I can't believe it's been that long...

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Where do I begin with this project. So much optimization went into this project to make it look decent without having to up the compression. Reminded me of this Roger's project that I lost on a conference call because I told the client what they didn't want to hear. They wanted to do an effect where a bunch of small little images shot out from a phone. App icon images, stars, confetti, etc.

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