FWA Theater Vs. YouTube
Balind on 26 May 2008 | Musings
FWA Theater is one of the best things to happen to the web in a while. Why? First of all because Fi’s on-line video application FiV is simply breathtaking… and secondly, there’s finally a resource to consolidate all the inspiring video motion graphics work out there.
Ew, YouTube.
It’s revolutionized video on the web but just like Facebook is a step-up from the messy and immature MySpace… FWA Theater is the updated, classy version intended for the modern user.
A contemporary Interactive Designer should have the skills of a Motion Graphics Artist.
I’m a firm believer that one of the keys to a successful promotional Flash website in this modern age, is using video as a design layer - it makes the web more like television, but better. This is why you consistently hear me preaching the virtues of incorporating 3d and After Effects into your design arsenal, it should be at the same priority level as pushing your AS skills.
Times are changing.
The potential compression values of FLV’s combined with current average-user bandwidth, allows for those of us in the interactive world to add a whole new dimension to our work, I dimension that’s ordinarily reserved for broadcast.
I foresee the merging of television and the internet.
In the future, a promotional website for say, a car, might look a lot more like the television commercials you currently see between programs, but interactive! If tweening PNG’s across the stage is the fullest extent of your Flash animation capabilities, you’ll get left behind.
Why FWA Theater rocks.
Not only do I not have to download or bookmark every cool motion piece I see anymore, but I get fresh stuff delivered to my door. My only suggestion to Mr. Ford is to give users the ability to create a profile to save videos in our library, that way we’ll know we have them forever. I work across multiple computers and never know when I may be upgrading to a new machine, so having a library that’s only available with the system I’m currently viewing the site on is of no value.
Let me know if anyone finds something like this but for illustration that’s not a blog.
Mr Ford on 26 May 2008 at 4:50 am #
Thanks for the post!
We shall be rolling out additional features for FWA Theater. One of which will address your library across multiple computers.
Glad you are enjoying the site.
Jordi on 26 May 2008 at 6:49 am #
I probably didn’t look into this too much, but how does it differ from Vimeo?
Jordi on 26 May 2008 at 6:57 am #
Hmmm I’m starting to see more and more that this seems to be where Vimeo/Youtube and Joost would meet in the middle, right?
Murten Saerbi on 26 May 2008 at 11:52 pm #
Hey Balind,
I get your drift of liking FWA Theater because it rocks but have you visited motionographer.com? You probably have, but I just wanted to show the people and perhaps you that there are more places that deliver great content in the field of motion design.
Anyway, great blog, very inspiring, keep it up man!
Murten Saerbi
Balind on 27 May 2008 at 8:48 am #
Motionographer is great but it’s more like a blog that links out or has videos embedded from YouTube. I like FWA Theater because the quality of the videos are high and they’re all in one spot with just the info I want, nothing extra.
Thanks for the comment.
Murten Saerbi on 28 May 2008 at 1:36 am #
Definately true. Fantasy does great stuff and FWA Theater proofs this again.