Augmented Reality Christmas Card

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For the last couple months we here at the basement have been testing and experimenting with augmented reality. Boy can it be finicky!!! We've definitely learned a LOT as a team about the capabilities and limitations of AR.

Today we are finally sending out our Holiday Greeting. If you have a webcam, it's a fun little thing to play with. Following the steps, print out the symbol and point your webcam at it. You should see a 3d stage and a couple characters pop up on top of the print out. You can move the print out around and look at the characters from all angles, or there are 3 songs that you can choose from and the characters will sing to you.


If you don't have a webcam, you can still see what the buzz is about by clicking on the link at the top of the page. It will take you to a video that will show you what we've done. There is so much more to write about this project, but no time for that now. Great work Basement Team! It's been a fun challenge!

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Merry Christmas everyone! Hope that your holidays are bright!

New Work Blog

Welcome to the new work blog!

After much thought and deliberation I have finally come to the conclusion that it's high time my blog was split in two. Now instead of one blog containing all things that I make, I will keep up one for more 'work' related posts and another for my various other past times. Of course since my hobbies and my work tend to overlap in many areas, there will be some crossover, but for the most part if someone in the industry is interested in my work I wanted to make it so they didn't have to wade through recipes and random arty projects.

That being said, if you're more interested in the 'other' non-work related stuff I post about, you may want to follow drawingsinmotion.blogspot.com instead of this blog.

I intend to keep a feed of work related stuff on the right hand side of my drawings in motion blog in case anyone over there is curious about my work life. Thanks for all your comments and support as this little space on the web has continued to grow!

PRIME: AIGA Indy Design Awards - Featuring One of My Designs

The Knozone.com website has won an AIGA Prime design award. Congrats to our partner on this project Miles Design and to the rest of our talented team that worked on it here at The Basement!


I'm going to head down and check out the gallery this Friday. I'm looking forward to checking out the other Indianapolis talent on display. Thanks to the AIGA for the nod! This will be my personal first interface design that has won any kind of award.

If you're interested in popping in, let me know. I'll probably head down there around 7:00.

Friday, November 6, 2009 Dean Johnson Gallery
646 Massachusetts Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana

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Playing around with Biped animation

I can't remember the last time I animated in 3D. A few weeks ago I opened 3d Studio up at work and played around with the biped animation to check it out. I chose two quick little dances to animate for fun and learn the tool. Obviously there's gobs of room for improvement, but I thought I'd share my first attempt.

The Basement Design + Motion launches new website

This week The Basement launched our new website. Each section showcases a different style that we're capable of as a company, from 2d vector animation (the pipes on the 'Homepage' and birds in the 'Contact' section) 3d work (the 'Work' section) stellar hand drawn illustration (buildings on the 'Homepage'). And of course the portfolio, case study, and demo reel in the 'Work' section show off the work that we've done in the past including motion graphics work, microsite development, and online games.

It was a team effort all the way with each member of our team tackling some element of the site. We're happy to see it launched and look forward to the opportunities that will follow.

Hancock Fabrics: The Ultimate Prom Competition Webisodes and Style Tips

This is an old project I worked on earlier this year that I'd forgotten to post until I saw it in the portfolio section of our new Basement website.

Advertising agency, Creative Alliance, recruited us to produce a microsite for a seasonal promotion with Hancock Fabrics and Seventeen Magazine. Hancock Fabrics was the official fabric sponsor of The Ultimate Prom 2009 competion. The microsite included fashion design tips and webisodes documenting three aspiring designers from New York's High School of Fashion Industries.

For this design obviously fabric and fashion design were our overarching concepts to work with. We wanted fabric to be the biggest design element so I used some satin from the Hancock Fabrics prom line and added stitching, pins, tape, and pattern paper to pull it together.

Being the only girl designer in the office it made sense for me to use my feminine sensibilities for this project. ;) Hopefully it came across as appealing to teen girls across the US and helped to portray Hancock Fabrics' as a more relevant brand for teens and younger women, and not a just store catering to their mothers and grandmothers.

Though this site has already launched and run it's course, there is still a test version of it up on our server you can check out here.

Dug up some old stuff...

Here's a Lichtenstein-esque version of my sis-in-law that I did a few years back. It was long forgotten, but somehow came into conversation recently so I dug it up and decided to throw it up on a post. I think she may end up using it as a facebook profile pic instead of an actual photo of herself if she decides to part ways with the stock icon they provide. We'll see. :) Well, happy Friday everyone!