Magnifying Effect

Something new I’m starting on my site is a section called “The Lab”. The Lab is where I’ll be putting little fun projects that I work on that are not client based (though could certainly be used by clients… inquire within).

As a major part of working with new media is continually learning, I figure I might as well post little creations and keep it all organized :)

First one! Magnifying glass effect, demonstrating use of the displacementMapFilter (rather than the old clumsy way of using 2 sized images and a mask) . Getting into some of the power of Flash9 and AS3 with some help from http://thonbo.com/…