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The blog, "Best Flash Websites" will feature...well, just that, the best Flash websites. The idea behind this blog is to portrait the best work around the world, not just the big Flash website design companies such as 2advanced but those little portfolios of unknown but talented designers. So, stay tuned for the best flash websites of all over the world!

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Name: bestflashwebsites
Location: United States

My name is Josha Stensgard, I was born in South Africa were I studied advertising and graphic design. For the last 7 years I've been working in New York as a creative and art director. So long I have worked for Volkswagen, Procter & Gamble, NBC, ESPN, FedEx, MC Donalds, Heinz and I am always looking forward on learning something new. I hope you enjoy my blog.

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Latin 3 Demo Reel - Best Flash websites and Motion Gfx



Ok, this is my last post of the year as I'm going on vacations until mid January.
This is the demo reel for a Flash company called Latin 3. The work looks just fine and if you are a NFS (Need For Speed) or similar player you'll love Ford's website.

The only thing that puzzles me is how they can make such good work but suck so much in the audio/music selection and editing of the reel.


Designer: Latin 3
Category: Flash website Demo Reel

posted by bestflashwebsites | 10:13 AM | 0 Comments

Monday, December 20, 2010

Sparkle Reel - Best Motion Gfx




Well, let's take a step forward. So long I've been featuring mostly 2D or 2.5D motion graphic jobs, but the real beauty of motion graphics comes when we combine these with 3D elements.

Sparkles 2008 demo reel (couldn't find a more recent one, sorry) is just amazing. While still mostly a 2.5D reel it is an excellent transition for future 3D motion gfx jobs to be featured. Check it out and as always, go Fullscreen.


Designer: Sparkle
Category: 2.5D - 3D

Labels: 2.5D, 3d, graphics, motion, motion gfx

posted by bestflashwebsites | 6:37 AM | 0 Comments

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Architekt - Best Motion Graphics




The Architekt, based on a song by Arms and Sleepers is a beautiful and poethic little piece of animation with a lovely atmosphere.

QB Media (the authors) have always been 100% a web design company (as a matter of fact I've featured their Flash works 2 or 3 times on this site before) and just had small motion graphic pieces in some of those websites as part of an introduction or event. This project shows exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about the marriage between Flash websites and Motion gfx.

This being their first effort, I can say they nailed it good! As always go Fullscreen and HD if possible (this is one of those cases)


Designer: QB Media
Category: 2.5D, Animation

posted by bestflashwebsites | 4:08 AM | 0 Comments

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Flash Demo Reels II - Best Motion Gfx

To continue showing the marriage between Flash/interactive websites and Motion Gfx I'm adding 2 more Flash Demo Reels. The Firt one is by Juxt Interactive. If you don't know it by now, Juxt is one of the biggest, oldest, and more well known interactive agencies around. This demo reel is from 2008, sorry but I wasn't able to find a more recent one...anyway it's awesome.

The second one is by a Korean agency called Allm which I found while looking for the best material. As always, go fullscreen!







Designer: Juxt Interactive, Allm
Category: Demo Reel

posted by bestflashwebsites | 5:09 AM | 0 Comments

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

I Heart revolution - Best Motion Graphics



The following is an animation from the documentary "The I Heart Revolution: We're All In This Together" that creatively depicted historical events and explored the themes of the film. If you have seen my previous Motion graphics post "From 2D to 3D" you can see a more advanced take on the technique in this video.

Of course this could have been given eve more realism using the puppet tool for example, but I don't think that's what the authors were looking for.

As always, go fullscreen!


Designer: Glenn Stewart
Category: 2.5 D

posted by bestflashwebsites | 4:20 AM | 0 Comments

Friday, December 3, 2010

Flash and Motion Gfx - Reels

Motion graphics are the best way to show your work, wether it is Flsh websites or HTML sites, a product or even a movie, Motion graphics is the way to go.

The following are some of the best reels I have found promoting Flash companies, as always, you might want to go Fullscreen. More coming soon:









Designer: QB Media, 101, Drawing Art
Category: Demo Reels

posted by bestflashwebsites | 4:54 AM | 0 Comments

2D to 3D - Best Motion Gfx



One of the best things about all these Motion graphics Softwares (call it Adobe After Effects, Apple's Motion or Combustion) is the ability to turn boring 2D/still pictures into amazong 3D scenes. This takes A LOT of work and is done basically by cutting the image in pieces/layers using yet the same motion software or Photoshop and then adding depth of field, camera movement etc. among the layers you have just ccreated.

The following is the work of Alper Nakri which you must have already seen in documentaries of the History Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery etc.

Designer: Alper Nakri
Category: 2D to 3D

posted by bestflashwebsites | 4:24 AM | 0 Comments

Baby in The Sky - Best Motion Gfx



Ok, let's start our new Motion GFX section with Global Fund's campaign to raise awareness of HIV infection in mothers and children.

The 2D animation has some stunning designs, each scene is more complex and beautiful than the previous one, featuring different techiniques.

The final voice over is narrated by non other than the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni.

I recommend going fullscreen to see all of the videos.

Designer: JSCB
Category: 2D Animation

posted by bestflashwebsites | 4:07 AM | 0 Comments

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Shifting ways...but not so much!

As many of you may have noticed I haven't posted a new Flash website for a long time. This obeys to many reasons which includes (but is not limited to) Apple's stupid fight with Adobe. I've been a Mac user for quite some time now, but I never thought Apple could have the power to shift the web design industry as they did in less than a year. The amount of Flash web designs have decayed tremedously giving birth to new HTML5 websites which expand much more the design possibilities than previous HTML versions.

Do I agree with this? No, not really. I think Flash websites had a great potential and that this shift relates more to an Ego fight than a real problem-solving one. The thing is, I have lost my passion for Flash websites, maybe as a result of this stupid corporation fight, or maybe as a result of my new obsession. Oh yeah, my new obsession: Motion Graphics :D

I have been playing around A LOT with Motion gfx lately and I think this is the logical step foward to take as a lifetime Flash designer/animator. So, what will happen with this beautiful Flash blog? It will turn into a Motion gfx blog, where I will feature the best animations I can grab from around the web. I hope you enjoy it as much as I'm sure I will.

Stay tuned, see you soon!

posted by bestflashwebsites | 8:11 AM | 0 Comments