:::Two animations for Mytoons.com Bumper BlastOff Contest by Sounas:::

I have created two new short animation stories for Mytoons.com Bumper BlastOff Contest. Characters and animation were created in Flash, while I used After Effects for camera and motion blur effects. Music is by Beatsuite.com. You can check the contest here:

>http://www.mytoons.com/animation/play/12001

http://www.mytoons.com/animation/play/11999

:::Ilias Sounas on Aniboom.com Competition:::

Great news from Aniboom.com, one of the greatest animation communities on the web.
Space Alone was a finalist and it is ready to compete in the final round along with other great animations at Drama category. I won a ToonBoom Studio and I' m waiting for this great animation package.

Additionaly, there's a short video with my testimonial about Space Alone and Aniboom competition. Check here.

Thanks Shira for these terrific news!

:::Ilias Sounas on Animation World magazine (AWN):::

AWN has included Space Alone in the list called "Web Toons You Need to See 2008".

Visit the article to read a very creative review about my animation and watch it online.

Thanks to Mo for his contribution.

:::Ilias Sounas | Design You Trust™:::

Sounasdesign art has been mentioned at Design You Trust website.

Nice!

:::Envision Event Prague 2008:::

Micosoft held a new event called Envision in three cities around the world: Prague, Milan, Dubai to present its vision for the future as well as to have great discussions about the design and new technology field.

I attended Prague’s Envsion Event which took place on 14-15 January 2008 at Café Louvre (Prague city is wonderful) along with Jason Kataropoulos, a great web developer from Atcom company. There were great speakers from agencies (like RazorFish, Syzygy) and Microsoft team. Some of them were: Wolfgang Henseler, Phil Gerrard, Rob Lawrence but the most work speaker was August De Los Reyes (Experience Architect of Microsoft’s Surface). There were a lot of discussions about the future of Web 2.0 and its main trends, the transmission from GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) to the more exciting NUI (Natural Graphic Interfaces) and the removal of mouse as a pointing device, the need for minimal and easily navigatable interfaces for all devices and the importance of emotion as a significant factor of the overall user experience.

All these issues were discussed mainly from the design point of view and how Microsoft can give users the best experience through websites and applications created using its Expression Studio.

Expression studio is set of great software for websites and applications (Web, Blend, Design, Media,Encoder) compatible with ASP.NET technology. The new plug-in SilverLight allows developers to create rich applications with animation (like Flash) and Microsoft’s expectations are clearly to have a great piece of webdesign market.