Taipei, Taiwan –
When it comes to character design Yu Cheng Hong stands out from the pack.
Please take a brief moment to scroll through this incredible set of digital illustrations and you will see why here at Vectorvault, we are keeping a close eye on his portfolio.
He’s a genius. Plain and simple.
See the entire set here.
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flash Games
(VIDEO) Toyota Backseat Driver FREE iPhone App
Adorable concept. Much more fun than popping in a DVD for the “little rug rats”. The journey is the game. Love it.
Did I mention it’s free?
Backseat Driver, the first product introduced by ToyToyota, is an iPhone application which allows kids to enjoy driving from the back seat of their car.
The player controlling My Car follows Papa Car, whose moves mirror the route of the real car in which the player is riding, using the iPhone’s GPS functionality. By steering My Car left and right to follow Papa Car’s path and pick up objects, the player can score points. Backseat Driver offers the passenger a new way to enjoy the driving.
The route that you took will be saved automatically so that you can look over.
You can gain points by collecting the items Papa Car drops, and the Landmark Icons of shops and facilities that are from the real maps. After you gained some points, you can customize your car with your own designs. The designs of your car and the saved route you took can be shared via Twitter.
Let’s grow your car more and more, by enjoying the actual car ride!
via: Notcot
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VIDEO: T-Mobile ad brings the mobile game "Angry Birds" to life
Barcelona –
I tell you, you gotta hand it to the cats who handle T-Mobile’s advertising. It’s truly ground breaking. Here is yet another amazing execution that involves real people interacting with real brands. The result is absolute magic.
One app that has grown from an iPhone hit to a worldwide phenomenon is Rovio Mobile’s Angry Birds. Whether you’re a fan of knocking over pigs and structures by flinging birds, or go berserk when you hear the Angry Birds theme music, you have to admit that the popularity of what was originally a simple iOS game it pretty amazing. Now T-Mobile is capitalizing on Angry Birds fever with a clever YouTube video titled Angry Birds Live.
A human-scaled mockup of the Angry Birds world was created in a square in Barcelona, with lucky participants using the game on a smartphone to launch birds on their castle-smashing journey. It includes authentic sounds effects and exploding pigs, and was obviously popular judging from the size of the crowd that appears.
The ad isn’t iPhone-specific, noting that T-Mobile has the “widest range of smartphones,” but the carrier does sell the iPhone outside of the U.S. and the game got its start on iOS. With that, we present to you Angry Birds Live in all of its glory:
Via: tuaw
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Retro video games vectorized for a re-match
Depixelizing Pixel Art: Upscaling Retro 8-bit Games
Two researchers — Johannes Kopf from Microsoft, and Dani Lischinski from The Hebrew University — have successfully created an algorithm that depixelizes and upscales low-resolution 8-bit “pixel art” into lush vector graphics. The algorithm identifies pixel-level details to accurately shade the new image — but more importantly, the algorithm can create smooth, curved contour lines from only-connected-on-the-diagonal single pixels. Look at the Super Mario World dolphin below, and compare it to the original source sprite below that: the results speak for themselves.
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GAME – Explore the "Guest house"
Tokyo, Japan –
Mix up some Egyptian hieroglyphics, a space station, some unusual machinery, a suspended animation pod, and some chilled out music, and you get a point’n’click game called Guest House. How you arrive at that name, from that mix, is anyone’s guess, but that doesn’t stop this being a great game both visually and puzzle-wise. It is reminiscent of Futurama.
We’re not sure exactly how you “win” this game, however, we did spend a long time exploring this well rendered world. If you figure it out – give us a shout.
Play the game here.
Bible Fight – Online Game
Here is a really great little distraction that has merged two things that are close to our hearts: religion and hand to hand combat video games. Bible Fight is a harmless little flash video game that will no doubt offend someone out there. Say a prayer and take a moment to play a round. Let us know what you think.”
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