Fancy Shit
So here are different projects from different times. Less UI, more cool shit — rich graphics, animation, etc. This stuff is for artists, musicians, events, you name it. Some are commercial (cafe, water delivery), others are pure arthouse. I keep them for the memories — some even picked up festival awards. And sometimes I just wanna show that I'm not that boring engineer — I'm into way more than just tech interfaces.
“OKBUDDHA” — Veg Cafe & Delivery
Honestly, we kind of went overboard. The guys were really into the new age theme and wanted to launch the site. It looked more like a landing page than a store, but still it was a fully functional online shop. Anyway, there was a lot of dadaist surrealism and Monty Python in there.
I was so obsessed with it that I also acted as photographer and food stylist. Plus I helped the startup for nearly a year.
By the way, there's a clickable mockup below.
“Vladimir's” — An Artist's Portfolio
This is a portfolio site for a very original artist who makes all kinds of metal stuff. It's not the first version by a long shot. We collaborated and were friends for maybe ten years. This version was clean and minimal but had these funny wireframe animations.
“Victor's Site” — Photo Portfolio
An obscenely animated photographer's website. But I still love the idea of animating torn photo fragments. A ship moving through, seagulls flying across, waves animated by hand. A relic from a time when there was excitement and a trend to make websites as art objects in their own right.
“Oleg's ‘Meteodirector’ ” — Painter's Website
This isn't exactly an artist's portfolio, more like a teaser for new work. For each activity or event we played around with different formats, and the site changed like a mood. This time the collection theme was Carbon, so everything looks all carbon like, including the molecules. And there's a big nod to old radios with that exact kind of dial, with cities and a crawling tuning bar. All of this touches things that stir the artist's soul. Some are obvious, others are deeply hidden. Below is a working layout; you can hover your cursor over it and click.
“Entropia 7” — Surreal Tinkering
Pure lyricism. My sandbox where I spent my youth. Pretty much the first site where I messed around with dynamic and static surrealism. Many versions. Many awards. It was naive, intentionally dark, but it had that silver lining kind of feeling.
“Fonte Aqua” — Series of Fancy Landing Pages
A dozen and a half cheerful promo pages. What possessed me to bother with parallax scroll triggered animation? So I had to do the development myself.
“Forecasters” — fun prediction sites
Some sports related odds and ends. I used to love football statistics back in the day and I also worked with a football media outlet. So I couldn't resist having some fun with it. These are little prediction micro sites that kinda forecast results of matches.
“Name Generator” — Joke Micro-Site
A joke website that makes up names for Samsung phones. It came from working with them. At some point I found it funny that dozens of models have the most unbelievable names, so in case the copywriters run out of ideas, you can just use this site.
“Gaztransit & IT-Transit” — Corporate Websites
A websites for a serious company (engineering in gas transit). But the guys had a sense of humour, and we worked together for a long time making fun versions of the sites with a lot of dynamic stuff.
In the picture is a metaphor I still love: a compressor station built from toy building blocks. I remember I almost bought a real construction set back then, but I couldn't find the right one, so I rendered it in Cinema 4D.
“Xmas Lights” — Event Micro-Site
A nice little trinket. You can create your own blinking pattern for the Christmas tree lights.
“Oolite” — Space Opera Website
I'm a long-time member of the open source community behind Oolite, an open-world space sim. Over the years, I've worked on a bunch of cool stuff, aside from moderating the Russian community. For instance, at one point there was even a version of the website that staged little scenes from the game's universe.
“Web Closet” — The Worst Websites Collection
My precious. A personal project. A collection of the ugliest websites. Once it even got second place in the most prestigious award in the galaxy.
“Coulomb's Law and Beyond” — Educational Physics Videos
And one last project. I came up with the visuals and concept for a series of educational animated videos about physics. The illustrations were done by an illustrator I brought in.
