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I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last few weeks working on a cover designer for the Australian addition of FHM. Although there was the obvious challenges of looking at scantily clad women all day long, there was also the chance to work with some great designs and concepting.

FHM Recovered

As with previous work I’ve made heavy use of bitmap data and bitmap distortion. What increased my love for BitmapData in this instance was the merging of timeline based animation and the bitmap distortion class. By inserting distorted bitmap grabs into timeline animation you can get some really excellent results; If you head over to fhmrecovered.com.au and check out the amateur section, and then preview the cover (magnifying glass) you’ll see the sweet timeline animation with the visual assets inserted and distorted.

Given the introduction of fp10 I imagine we’ll be seeing even greater teamwork between both flash designers, and flash developers over the coming months, and based on my experience with FHM this can only lead to great things.

Should you be based in Australia then please have a go at entering fhmrecovered.com.au as the winner takes a prize of $5000 and a week’s internship at hollersydney.com.au (I’ll be after a 10% cut )