Since its launch in January of 2010, Top Flash Sites © has already grown to become the web’s single largest directory of the best flash websites on the planet. These spectacular and cutting-edge flash designs are rewarded for technological uniqueness, visual awe, and navigation simplicity. Their mission is to inspire fresh innovative thinking and the development of high-quality flash animation projects. Their gallery features hundreds of the top flash websites, broken down into 45 unique categories, including the Top Rated, Editor’s Picks, and the Highest Ranked of 2010, 2009, and 2008. For each site in the directory, a large 1200×600 pixel snapshot of the homepage is provided, along with a link to the site. Shown below are descriptions of our top three Best Flash Websites of 2010:

#1 Top-Ranked Flash Site of 2010: The Wilderness Downtown

This website will blow you away. The interactive short film for Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” utilizes Google’s new Chrome browser, dynamic images from Google Maps, and the newfangled HTML5 in order to superimpose an anonymous jogger in a hooded sweatshirt racing down the streets of your hometown neighborhood to the rhythm of the song. It’s no wonder this website is currently the #1 ranked flash site in our directory. Other features are shown below:

The site also boasts choreographed windows, interactively-random canvas 3D bird flocking, custom rendered maps and street detection, enhanced color correction, synchronized music timecodes, velocity-influenced drawing tools, and many other forms of advanced audio and video open web technology.

#2 Top-Ranked Flash Site of 2010: The Perrier Mansion

No surprises here. Perrier’s marketing team in 2009 came up with the genius idea to take Perrier website visitors through a interactive rendez-vous at the Perrier Mansion for a once-in-a-lifetime sensual experience with Dita Von Teese. It positions the viewer as a man arriving in a Porsche 911 to find the alluring Dita waiting inside. You then go on to take pictures of Dita in sexy poses and watching her act out instructions engraved on a set of special dice that involve her removing clothing and, of course, dousing herself in Perrier. Leave it to the French to create a website (selling only water) that is so steamy it is prohibited from viewers under the age of 18.

#3 Top-Ranked Flash Site of 2010: Moodstream by Getty Images

Moodstream is an interesting mashup of several forms of media, designed to bring you music, images, and video in sync with the mood you’re in—or the mood you want to be in—through a simple interface. Moodstream streams music accompanied by images and video clips to create a blended audio-visual ambient mix. It’s the first mood-based music streaming service to also include a flash-constructed visual element. At Moodstream you can select from the presets of Inspire, Excite, Refresh, Intensify, Stabilize, and Simplify. Each preset is a mixture of the mood spectrums on the Moodstream mixer—happy/sad, calm/lively, warm/cool, and so on. You can start with a preset station and then mix things up, whether you want faster image transition, more or less vocals in your music selection, or certain instruments. This is great for all those music-ADD listeners out there, as they only play songs in 20-30 second intervals.

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