NOTE: Hi, this is repost of an entry that I wrote back in December. While this entry is a bit old I still think that it is interesting.

Today during lunch I was reading about some “drama” about comments made by Big Spaceship’s CEO and founder Michael Lebowitz. After reading everything I could find, I visited the Big Spaceship website since it had been a few months since I was last there and explored some recent of their more recent work. Inside of their Labs section they posted something of a production diary showing the process behind the development of their MAX 2008 for the Adobe events website. I was really impressed and think you should check this document out for the interactive media techniques used for the smoke and northern lights dynamic assets, that look good enough to make believe that they were meticulously animated by hand.

Note that you need Acrobat 9 to view this PDF due to the embeded swf’s. So I guess that you should have an updated version of Flash Player too. Hell just update everything Adobe on your computer.

Continue reading Big Spaceship’s Production Diary, and a little drama after the break.