Star Festival
Client:
Botticelli Interactive, Inc.
Description: Graphics, animation, interface design and programming for the "Star Festival". This CD-ROM is an interactive travelogue in which a Japanese professor rediscovers his homeland after a 30-year absence. The user finds the Professor's high-tech electronic diary lying damaged in the street and is able to reconstruct his journey, while getting an insider's look at a small Japanese town. Copyright 1996 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.
Mundos Hispanos
Client: Heinle & Heinle
Description: Graphics and interface design for an instructional CD-ROM that teaches users the basics of Spanish culture and language. Copyright 1997 by Heinle & Heinle.
Apple Media Tool Demo -GearHead-
Client:
Apple Computer (Producer: Art Technology Group)
Description:
Design, animation, original music of CD-ROM demo promoting "Apple Media Tool" product. The cursor is replaced by an animated character, "GearHead", who survives a series of misadventures as the user explores a playful animated world.
Interactive Advent Calendar
Client:
Ark Studios (Producers: Ark Studios, Inc. & Crispin Wood)
Description:
A humorous and somewhat irreverent advent calendar containing 24 short animations hidden behind numbers on the screen. The product was designed to fit on a floppy disk and be sold over the Internet.
Central Park QTVR
Client:
Aurora & Quanta Productions(Producer: Ark Studios, Inc. & Jose Azel )
Description:
Production and design for an interactive walk through New York City's Central Park. Using Apple Computer's Quicktime VR technology, the user is able to view photographic panoramics of Central Park and interact with the people, places and events that he or she sees.
Silk Worm Odyssey
Client:
The Odyssey Project (Producer: Ark Studios, Inc. & Cary Wolinsky)
Description:
Production and design for a photographic odyssey with one of National Geographic's premiere photographers.This prototype, designed to be downloaded from on-line services such as America Online, allows users to explore the four different cycles of the domesticated silkworm's life through the use of high quality photographic images from the photographer's archive. Intended to be both educational and visually satisfying, the prototype was created to be the first of a series of downloadable photographic odysseys.
Electric Carnival
Client:
Interval Research, San Francisco (Producer: AVX)
Description:
Concept design and production for the Freaks! interactive exhibit that toured as part of Lollapalooza '94. Fifteen kiosks were devoted to the three Freaks! concepts: Frankenface, Babymaker, and Human Alchemy. The three designs were variations of the same idea: users taking a video-captured image of their own face and then merging that image with a capture of another person's face.
Electric Carnival
Client:
Interval Research, San Francisco (Producer: AVX)
Description:
Concept design and production for the Freaks! interactive exhibit that toured as part of Lollapalooza '94. Fifteen kiosks were devoted to the three Freaks! concepts: Frankenface, Babymaker, and Human Alchemy. The three designs were variations of the same idea: users taking a video-captured image of their own face and then merging that image with a capture of another person's face.
Electric Carnival
Client:
Interval Research, San Francisco (Producer: AVX)
Description:
Concept design and production for the Freaks! interactive exhibit that toured as part of Lollapalooza '94. Fifteen kiosks were devoted to the three Freaks! concepts: Frankenface, Babymaker, and Human Alchemy. The three designs were variations of the same idea: users taking a video-captured image of their own face and then merging that image with a capture of another person's face.
What if Britain Falls?
Client:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, US National Archives (Producer: George Brackett Associates)
Description:
Project management, sound, design and production for interactive historical simulation which places the viewer in the role of President at a crucial turning point in US history.
Rendering and Image Enhancement Interactive kiosks
Exhibit: Imaging: The Tools of ScienceClient: Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (Producer : Art Technology Group)
Description:
Interface design, programming, and media creation for two Macintosh-based interactive kiosks in this award-winning exhibit. Image Enhancement provides an interactive narrative challenging users to solve a bank robbery using the computer-assisted imaging tools.
Rendering and Image Enhancement Interactive kiosks
Exhibit:
Imaging: The Tools of Science
Client:
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (Producer: Art Technology Group)
Description:
Interface design, programming, and media creation for two Macintosh-based interactive kiosks in this award-winning exhibit. The Rendering exhibit immerses users in the creation process of 3D computer modeling.
Discovering French
Client:
D.C. Heath (Producer: Interactive Factory)
Description:
Project management, production design and digital video production for CD-ROM educational software based on the educational text book series,
Discovering French Interactive
. The CD-ROM won the 1993 People's Choice Award at the Macromedia Developer's Conference.
Japan Today
Client:
Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Television. (Producer: David Harrison)
Description:
Interface Design and project management for a traveling educational kiosk prototype which allows American grade school students to edit their own quicktime video presentations by choosing from over 5 minutes of footage documenting Japanese Culture.
Theme Park Prototype
Client:
D.C. Heath (Producer: Interactive Factory)
Description:
Design, production, 3D rendering, animation, sound design and project management for prototype development of a multifaceted virtual environment specifically designed for a K-8 grade level, cross curricular approach to Literacy. The prototype includes a three dimensional Visitors Center which serves as the central interface. The students can explore beyond the Visitors Center out into the virtual panorama where they encounter ambient audio and animation cues. Each student "logs-on" to their personal digital assistant or Journal that they take along on their inquiry based expedition.
Frozen Tomatoes and Genetic Rescue interactive kiosks.
Exhibit:
Biotechnology
Client:
Museum of Science - Boston (Producer: Interactive Factory)
Description:
Concept development, Interface design, and 3D animation for two kiosks which immerse users in the lab work and implementation of detailed biotechnology applications.
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