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Doninoken: WPF XBAP Piece by Bascule

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Check out Doninoken, an amazing WPF piece that is part of the Japanese Vista launch, done by the design agency Bascule.   The aesthetic is amazing.  I love how they use WPF 3D, mapping images on planes and animating the planes. (Watch for the small camera that pops up after the title screen that lets you interact with the app and zoom the camera around.)  Still, how did they do it?  Maya exports? Hand tweaking XAML?  It is very impressive. And makes you want some sushi...

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  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2007
    Awesome. Slightly disturbing :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2007
    Man! They should really include a volume-slider. Almost blew my ears out, as I was fullscreaning another window and didn't get a warning. Otherwise it was cool and yes, disturbing.

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2007
    A friend on the WPF team pointed out the similarity of the aesthetic to Parappa the Rappa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eZcV1UuUzI) -- so there is some precedence to the use of images on planes.

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2007
    Karsten - you beat me to the comment; it has a very cool Parappa feel to it.  Great example of an aesthetic that would be very difficult (if impossible) to create without the 3D engine in WPF.  The texture maps would have been the killer if you tried to do it in a faux-3D environment.

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2007
    There were a couple of interesting Windows Presentation Foundation bits I've seen recently that I thought