I am aware that the current Bluetube site sucks and has not been updated in a long time, Michael and I have been working with blenderstudio on our new look/feel, I'm a geek not a graphics designer so we got someone who knew what they were doing to design our new site. Michael has been busy on tons of bluetube music projects and i've been busy on tons of bluetube interactive projects so thats our excuse and if you don't like you can complain once your music is on Television all over the world but nobody knows you did it :)
Speaking of which I'm still trying to figure out the best approach for a programmer (myself) to work with a flash designer, for example the Bluetube site has a new music page which has a list of sortable music projects, each project when clicked will display a large image and its project details (producer, composer etc) I want the details of the project to do a 'reveal' or something cool when a visitor clicks on a project. So here is the big question, how should this be designed, we know up front that there is a variable number of projects loaded dynamically at runtime (webserivce/flash remoting/xml) we will dynamically load the image, text and project details, the "animation" component needs to be built to do its "intro" and "out-tro" and also integrate well with my code so once its displayed it has the dynamic content. John Grden and I had a good talk about this over email, he is the author of the amazing flash debug tool, and he said when working with a flash designer he lets them put a component together and makes sure the component knows its state at all times "intro' "stopped" "outro" etc and his code integrates with that, but without a concrete example its hard to visualize.
What I'd like to do is have a working example of this I can put up on the ginormous blog so that myself and other have a clear idea of how this would work. I have no problem programming or doing the dynamic stuff, my nightmare is getting a flash movie with event code attached to every movie and loadvars all over the shop, I'm a one actionscript file per symbol kind of guy and like very clean code, I have threatened to shoot anyone using the timeline unless there is a very good reason for it :) I'd love to hear other peoples ideas or links to discussions on this.
