Best Flash Websites - Flash website and Motion Graphics directory

Best Motion Gfx - Lamborghini Aventador

2011-05-03T06:10:00.000-07:00

More than a Tv commercial Lamborghini's new spot looks more like a short film. An incredible ride, a cinematic experience with great post production. Enjoy the new Lamborghini Aventador.

Agency: Philipp und Keuntje

Category: 3D, composition, After effects

Bet Motion Gfx - Water Changes everything

2011-05-03T06:03:00.000-07:00

Beautiful animation on how third world countries struggle to get their daily glass of water. I love the simplicity of the animation and the solutions the animator itself found to fit the script in a creative manner. Voice by Kristen Bell.

Designer: Jonathan Jarvis

Category: 2D animation

Best Motion Graphics - Scott Pilgrim!

2011-03-01T04:33:00.000-08:00

It's no secret that some of the best motion gfx works are movie titles. Scott Pilgim Vs. The World is an amazing movie, a stunning piece of design and motion that you MUST see if you haven't yet, cause I had never seen a movie like this. The visuals are out of this world, and so is the intro.

If you are a gamer, designer, indie rocker or whatever you cannot miss this movie.

Oh, as always, go fullscreen!

Category: 2D

Designer: Shynola

Best Motion gfx - The Backwater Gospel

2011-02-16T05:09:00.000-08:00

WARNING: The following is an extremely graphic and violent animation

That being said, The Blackwater Gospel is one of the best animations I've seen lately. Done by 8 incredibly talented students (4 animators and 4 CG artists) the piece features animations done in Flash and 3D both composited in After Effects. The result is frankly AMAZING and I can see nothing but a bright future for the people involved in it.

Designer: The Animation Workshop

Category: Flash, After Effects, 2D, 3D

Nike Id Nation - Best Motion / Flash websites

2011-01-20T08:05:00.001-08:00

Ok, I'm back from my vacations and now my skin is not only tanned by the radiation of my computer but by the beautiful and natural Sun :)

To get back into track today I bring an excellent piece of Motion Gfx by Nike which could have also been a perfect Flash website (yeah, really!). Check out the interface these guys have designed for the motion piece and let me know if it wouldn't be an outstanding Flash website.

Designer: Unknown

Category: Flash website / Motion Gfx

Latin 3 Demo Reel - Best Flash websites and Motion Gfx

2010-12-22T10:13:00.000-08:00

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

Sparkle Reel - Best Motion Gfx

2010-12-20T06:37:00.000-08:00

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

The Architekt - Best Motion Graphics

2010-12-14T04:08:00.000-08:00

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

Flash Demo Reels II - Best Motion Gfx

2010-12-09T05:09:00.001-08:00

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

I Heart revolution - Best Motion Graphics

2010-12-08T04:20:00.000-08:00

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

Flash and Motion Gfx - Reels

2010-12-03T04:54:00.000-08:00

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

2D to 3D - Best Motion Gfx

2010-12-03T04:24:00.001-08:00

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

Baby in The Sky - Best Motion Gfx

2010-12-03T04:07:00.000-08:00

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

Shifting ways...but not so much!

2010-12-02T08:11:00.000-08:00

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!

Gatorade - New Flash Website

2009-10-17T14:52:00.000-07:00

I've been having some problems with most Flash websites lately. It seems as every good Flash site must take 5 and a half years to load. What's going on? Super cool and fast loading websites as the ones we have seen before can be done by anyone who knows what he/she is doing with Adobe's software.

Well, thanks God I found Gatorade's new website. Alpha video, fullscreen video, amazing and simple designs for a bunch of completely different sections. And all of them load at the speed of light. That's what I call a winner.

I've found this website to be so amazing that this will be the first time I post more than one pic for a listing. Gatorade's website allows you to select the different drink flavors the brand offers, rotate the bottle and see valuable information about it. It also lists (with video and images) each and every athlete the brand sponsors. Pure joy.

Gatorade

Designer: Unknown

Best Flash web sites - Nokia eco friendly

2009-04-07T06:46:00.001-07:00

Ok, this is how this blog works: we go from posting simple but beautiful fast loading websites to quite big 3D stuffed websites. And in this last scenario we've got Nokia's "Evolve" Flash site.

Nokia Evolve is an eco-friendly cellphone, made up of 80% recycled materials and with a small amount of energy use. Beautiful site for a beautiful product.

Nokia Evolve
Designer: Unknown

Best Flash web designs - Siglo Comunicacion

2009-02-05T16:59:00.000-08:00

Ok, just grabbed this one from QB Media's blog. If you dont know QB Media by now they just do some awesome, simple and fast loading websites.

Siglo's (seems to be some kind of advertising agency or book publisher...sorry but the site is only in spanish) website design is beautiful, with a simple and effective interface and some cool parallaxing effect going on each and every page. It has some nice features such as section previews and changeable backgrounds which look really nice and build some kind of pleasent atmoshpere. I repeat, the site is very simple: you won't find crazy After Effects backgrounds or other eye candy elements, but, somehow, it looks modern and works in many levels.

Siglo Comunicacion

Designer: QB Media

Best Flash Websites - Adobe Special Flash Demo

2008-10-29T16:04:00.000-07:00

The launch of the new Flash CS4 (and the rest of the creative suite) brings to mind the special demo they did for the CS3 launch. This was made using just Adobe products, keep that in mind, no 3D software here! So everything was done using just Photoshop, After Effects and Flash. Truly amazing and unbelivable!

Adobe Cards

Designer: Adobe Team

Best Flash Websites....Update!!

2008-07-23T14:18:00.001-07:00

Design, design, design, eat. Design, design, design, sleep. Repeat.

That pretty much sums my life for the last 6 months, and, oh my god, it looks as it will go on. As you can imagine I haven't had much time to look around for nice inspirational Flash sites...BUT I made a little time for myself, and this is what I found out:

Let your worries go...no, really, you should, but it is also the name of a beautiful website. Although it's just a viral marketing site it stands out of the crowd for:

a- Beautiful Design.

b- Great Action Scripting.

c- Perfect use of video and well done Matte.

d- Nice Parallax effect.

So, enjoy it as I did...one more for my best flash website list.

Let Your Worries Go

Designer: Unknown

Best Flash websites - Simone Moreno

2007-08-06T11:02:00.001-07:00

Ok, I know I haven't post in a while but I've got A LOT of work lately. Another reason for this lack of posts was I wasn't able find a website which really impressed me....luckily I came across brazilian/swedish artist Simone Moreno's site. Beautiful design, simple but effective Action Scripting and nice picture treatment for the galleries. Only thing I would change would be the small space and readability of the text, but it's a beautiful flash website anyway, good work

Simone Moreno

Designer: Suprb

Best Flash sites - Red Interactive

2007-06-06T20:35:00.000-07:00

This must be the most amazing piece of Flash work I've seen in years. Red Interactive is a US multimedia agency with offices in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Its portfolio includes some big names such as National Geographic, HBO, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers and the NFL.

During the visit to their site you can choose to particpate in the flash-based chat "room", or should I say "world". To do so you have to customize your character and then start interacting with the whole flash universe made around the site. You can walk, fly, run, dance, fight (ctrl+shift) and of course talk to other users, interactivity at its most! An amazing use of flash and a beautiful design make this site a must visit, these guys have started a new revolution.

Red Interactive Agency

Best Flash Designs - United kingdom web design

2007-06-05T15:05:00.000-07:00

Lumus is a design company based in the united kingdom which has worked for Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and the BBC. I really liked the mystic of their portfolio, some kind of new happy planet which added to an easy listening backgound creates a nice mood.

Lumus

Best Flash Designs - Coca Cola Energy Drink

2007-05-30T20:19:00.000-07:00

This Brazilian website designed for Coca-Cola's energy drink Burn shows us sometime less is more. Although the design is quite static (only text changes until you go to see pics of the parties) the mood is settled from the start with a nice little intro featuring the bottle and great graphic design. This website reflects exactly what the product is about: night, party and energy....well done.

Burn Mistery Party

Designer: Cappen

Best Flash Designs - 3D navigation

2007-05-30T20:03:00.001-07:00

This must be one of the most original and amazing navigations ever done with Flash software. It took me only 3 seconds to load and I was completely blown away by the action script work which allowed such a magnificient 3D navigation in such a fast loading website.

Although I loved this apect I felt like the rest of the site wasn't up to the level of the menu, I expected something else. Anyway, I'm still amazed.

Screenvader

Best Flash Designs - Photography website

2007-05-30T09:15:00.000-07:00

Andreas Burz is a german photographer who has worked for Porsche, Audi and Mercedes Benz among other big names of the automotive industry. Of course his work is not "just taking pictures of cars" and he shows off his work in this beautiful portfolio designed by Group94. Again, the belgium based web design company delivers a crisp, clean and easy to navigate site. Congratz.

Andreas Burz

Designer: Group94

Best Flash designs - Stranger than fiction

2007-05-30T08:50:00.000-07:00

Stranger than Fiction is an amazing movie, nice plot, good acting and some nice motion media graphics. The minimalistic website with almost no text but videoblogs fits perfect and proves you don't need overwhelming graphics in order to have a nice website design.

Stranger than fiction movie website

Desginer: Uncredited

World Flash designs - Metropolis

2007-05-30T08:06:00.001-07:00

Metropolis is an outdoor Polish company with a very nice collage-style website inspired in the 20's. Nice action script work and a semi-originial navigation.

Metropolis

Designer: Huncwot

Best Flash Designs - Wireless flash site

2007-05-29T20:22:00.000-07:00

The reason I am posting this site is not just because it's "informative" and has nice video interaction, but it's also very funny. It also features some fun, child oriented flash animations to explain what is this all about out. Well done, keep it up Sprint Nextel.

The Connectile Dysfunction Treatment Center

Designer: Uncredited

World Flash designs - Beer Flash website

2007-05-29T20:09:00.000-07:00

Brazilian Advertising has grown very quickly in the last years and we can see a lot of creatives working in american agencies or receiving prices in Cannes. It's nice to know they are doing good in web design too. The website design for Primus beer is very simple and nice, it features easy navigation and interactive video. Best of all: loads fast. Check it out (portuguese language).

Primus beer

Designer: Uncredited

Best Flash Designs - Neostream

2007-05-29T19:38:00.000-07:00

The second classic of Flash web design. Neostream is (was?) a multimedia company which developed one of the most memorable sites ever. I believe this web site was uploaded sometime between 2003-2004 and is still up to date. A Lot of 3D, special effects, and of course, Flash animation make this site a must see. Cons: takes too much time to download (but its worth it).

Neostream

Best Flash websites - 2Advanced

2007-05-29T19:23:00.000-07:00

If Flash revolutionized the web, these guys revolutionized web design and interactivity. An amazing portfolio were you will find the biggest names: Ford, Motorola, AOL, Bacardi, ESPN, Electronic Arts, Fox, Oakley, Nintendo, you name it...

2Advanced is the biggest web design studio in the world, and has been as long as I remember.

2advanced

Best Flash websites - Photography Flash site

2007-05-29T19:15:00.000-07:00

The guys in charge of this website were smart enough to realize the divas were the photographs and not the website. What we have here is a simple design, not too much going on, but stunning pictures. Mr. Lyndon Wade, you have a new fan.

Lyndon Wade Photography

Designer: Uncredited

Best Flash Designs - Guatusi

2007-05-29T18:50:00.000-07:00

I came across this site while visitng a chinese Flash reviews site a couple of years ago. Although it's quite an old site (2003 maybe) I was amazed by the atmosphere of the design and music. I must admit I didn't understood much (site is in Spanish) but I was able to figure out it was designed for a uruguayan Hard Rock band. Visit it while still online

Guatusi

designer: QB Media

Best Flash websites - Oringe

2007-05-29T18:21:00.000-07:00

Oringe is a web design company based in Los Angeles. Although their work doesn't stand out much their own company website does. An amazing and intuitive interface a simple design and an excelent action script coding makes this website glow.

http://www.oringe.com

Best flash web sites

2007-05-29T16:07:00.000-07:00

This blog will appeal mostly to graphic and web designers but also to anybody who likes any kind of audiovisual work. Our 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 designers but great talent. So, stay tuned for the best flash websites of all over the world!

For those who don't know what Flash is. Flashwas invented by a small software studio and later purchased by Macromedia, who turned it hugh and revolutionized what today we know as the internet and animation interactivity. To be able to view Flah websites you need the flash player, which can be found in 94% of the computers around the world. Last year Flash was purchased by Adobe and this is the description from their own site:

What is Flash CS3 Professional?

Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, games, and more. Designers and developers working on both Macintosh and Windows® systems depend on Flash and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player software to ensure their content reaches the widest possible audience.