Christmas tweets

www.christmastweets.co.uk
This twitter visualiser has been produced to scan worldwide tweets for festive words to determine what the meaning of Christmas is in 2009.

There are four possible meanings each represented by a festive character:
Commercialism - Santa Claus
Credit Crunch - Scrooge
Religion - Jesus
Christmas Spirit - Snowman
Meet the characters and find out the meaning of Christmas this year at:
http://www.christmastweets.co.uk

Produced by UK digital agency Twentysix, this project manipulates the twitter API to detect certain words, the site is built in Flash and uses the papervision engine to render a 3D globe and 3D characters.

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Credits are as follows:

Concept and art direction - Will Jones (myself)
Flash build - Ryan Michael, Richard Sykes
Character design - Adam Campion, Nik Cann
Character animation - Gav Cannon
Backend setup - Luke Brown, Matt Pallatt

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Here are a few more shots of the artwork: