3D Model Treats: Animation, 3D

While studying as a student at ITT Technical Institute, I had the advantage of working with 3D Studio Max for a few years. Below are varous samples from the 3D Collection.

Not too broadcast: Video - Pick 5 (KPXB)

The sister promo to "Customer Profile" was this spot.

Again, Charles Pape was the person that allowed this oppurtunity to edit this, as he was the public affairs producer for the station. I just got to slice-n-dice a little and used two or three provided clips with motion and transparency settings for the background effects.

And using a countdown, I utilized that infamous countdown clip always seen in film. In te end, the sound, voice, script and graphics came together well. The promo aired for a while until the station identity changed.

If I remember right, I may have changed th blue background coolor to a color more in the greener tone for the revisions that came later for a sister station.

Not too broadcast: Video - Customer Profile (KPXB)

After working for KPXB for a few years, I finally got a chance to do a promo. The script, graphics and voice over were provided. I used the graphics with a few layers of moving bars and some stock audio to create the clip which aired for a few years. Charles Pape was the producer and I was grateful for the opportunity he gave me on this.

I enjoyed this project and it seemed a long time waiting. Later on, this script was altered for a sister station and the promos aired over there. Eventually, PAX changed their marketing material and then their identity and the promo was expired.

(After initially uploading the video file, I removed it - to view the promo in full length - send a request through with yuor name and company)

Meanwhile, enjoy the screen shots ...

Until SWF ... Animation - CF Ware

So that whole Starbucks networking system thing does actually happen occasionally. I went to Starbucks and was studying some design and development. I took a ColdFusion book with me and ended up in a conversation with a prospective freelance client.

I was still fairly new to the filed, and think I stay may be in the beginning stages of it now, 3 years later, and I found a few revelations that day. One revelation occured in a conversation about html, and it was that I wasn't as stupid and uneducated as I thought I was. As the conversation continued, the other revelation came to my while my eyes glazed over; I was, maybe, in fact, stupid and uneducated as I thought I was.

And at this time, I was still writing my contact number on the back of other peoples business cards, some how a potential job was created out of this. What the clientr asked for was a simple but sharp animation for his website. Living at my sisters at the time and working on two other projects (my portfolio site and FreakoSuave) and less than a year after getting my degree in multimedia, I was starting to think I had finally arrived. I was busy, but this took priority becuas eof the prospect it could have for future work.

He wanted a lightning effect and the orange lightining was part of his identity so I couldn't alter that or the final location of it above the name. I went for the lightning effect inside the blue sphere which was also a part of the final logo - if I remember right. I ended up creating a simple frame-by-frame animation. The animation was a 10-15 second animation.

I never got the final feedback on the project and upon a follow up later on, he had shut down the website. Who would shut down their website? (My own future had not arrived yet to assist me in my judgement).

As of today, May 29th 2009, whatI have to showcase this is some screenshots. Until I get my portfolio site live again, I couldn't upload SWF's. Or can I? I think most blogger SWF's are linked to an external location. Check back on this later for a live version. In the meantime, here's the screenshots.

Look Ma! Let's put it on the fridge! Websites - Freako Suave

This job came to me during the process of building my portfolio website, so the both of them became a learning experience. The creativity of this site was motiviating, but also frustrating. In the end - I think it became a litle too flashy even for a musicians site.

This site was also released in 2005, but I think only lasted until 2007. The client played on his own and with this band. The updates didn't get posted too often and the site died. Was it because of the site? This is one of those questions I ask for all the projects that fail. I guess if I didn't care, I wouldn't enjoy working in this field, but I did care.

I had worked on another design for this site which was a little more outside the box, and becuase the client was looking for something different and possibly had hopes of self-maintenance on the site, the web design was toned down. But here are the screenshots:

Look Ma! Let's put it on the fridge! Websites - BHCreative

The first live website I created was my portfolio website. While I created the logo bad in the design of the website, I created the website based of another site I saw which was simple.

I released this site in 2005. By 2008 it was losing it's flare. I was ready fir an overhaul. I wanted to do a Flash website, and haven't yet. I didn't like the address - it was too long. www.bhcreativemediadesign.com. This link no longer works. I let the domain name expire and I am planning to launch my next portfolio site from a new name on a server that allows a little more.

This site was hosted off FreeServers.com. I was satisfied with the service, but I was looking to move my site to ASP, which I didn't have the capabilities for with that site.

I think I'd have to lean more towards some lighter colors and a better, cleaner, look and feel on the next release. Instead of relasing something out there sooner, and being less satisfied with th results, I hope to build something I like, then release it.

Here are some of the other pages from that site:

Look ma! Let's put it on the fridge! Logos - Hobo Interactive

One of the more casual, and possibly most offensive in presentation. Hobo Interactive was another daydream product that started with a small sick laugh and esculated to a fully offensive branding design.

The idea derived from brainstorming a name to represent the type of services I hoped to provide. Cheap service to those who didn't want to pay the high price but still desired some quality. I had fun packaging this idea. And had fun creating it.

The hat on the lower right was created in 3D studio max. I put a single spotlight on it to display the shadow. The "Hi" inside the circle was where the laughter came from. I think I was probably drawing this somewhere and luaghed to myself. Meanwhile, someone probably walked by me thinking what a wierd little man. I thought of the video advertisement for this. The "Hi" logo drawn with a finger on the morning dew of a car window. As the water on the logo starts to drip down, you'd see the hobo in the backseat, with his clothes, his hat, his vodka, his laptop, and his business card. I still hope to shoot it soon, so don't steal this pleasure away from me. I can't afford the prescriptions. And it's also a greeting, "Hi". A beggining. "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

I believe this was previous to later attempts at the full package, the letter head and business card. I may not remember this correctly, but I think it was inspired by a job rejection I got from a design company. It really deflated the blow a little when this design company, "Hill" and something or other sent me a branded envelop and letterhead to tell me I didn't match any openings at the time. In my small efforts and big mind, I was honored to be rejected so professionally. (Got that one ladies?). And so this collage was given life and existence.