Transitions Lenses Eyeglass Guide 2.0

So I just realized I'd never blogged about the launch of our latest project for Transitions Lenses.

We worked with Brandwidth to create an online quiz of sorts to educate the user on lens options that might fit their lifestyle. At the end of the quiz it allows the user to print out their results in a format that will help her eye care professional work with her to decide which lens options would best suit her.

My job was the general look and feel of the animations. Stanley and I worked together to create assets, and then I animated the videos. Brian was in charge of general art direction, interface design, and 3d assets, and Mark did all the flash work for the tool.

Check out the tool and anywhere you see a yellow button like this:
you'll be able to check out one of my animations. I'll try and work out a way to get the video's in my blog.

Philosophy Video for new MS Website

Here is a quick animation that I put together for the Philosophy section of the new Mediasauce website with Larry's help on initial concept, Mitch as writer and voice talent, Mike as the Creative Director, and Andy as audio extraodinaire. It was nice to have some freedom on the direction of the design and animation style. I enjoyed sketching some of the elements with a pen that were included in the design, and it was fun to jump into Maya briefly to create the root animation. Thanks for the Maya crash course Joseph!

I have to say, the project went relatively smoothly until I tried to mess with the temporal properties of my position key frames in the graph editor. I dont quite understand why the key frame splits or why you cant angle the handles to make the curve you're after. It's something I definitely need to investigate further because it was driving me crazy! I look forward to spending more time on the next piece like this one and incorporating more pizazz and 2ndary movement.

Here's an image of the design I used for the animation. The photos all came from personal travel photos I've taken and the flower designs are the result of some fun with pen and ink. I liked how they turned out and would love to make a funky fabric based on them at some point.

Old School Work Archives

Very old Photoshop work. (Photoshop airbrushed illustration of Edgerin James, an airbrushed illustration of a girl viewing the streets of chicago from her car window, a collage design using some photos I'd taken around Lafayette, and a scientific illustration of a garden spider)

Old segment intros I did for a college show I worked on called CG-TV. They were created using Illustrator, 3D Max, and After Effects.

An old flash project I worked on for ITaP one summer. Created the characters and animation using Illustrator and Flash.

Tonight I found my old external hard drive from school. I had to search through boxes of cables to find a power supply and cable to hook it up. I found some of my first photoshop projects, an old ITaP flash project, and a couple of little animated intros that I did for this computer graphics tech tv type show we did back then (You can see Alex and Kindari as hosts at the very end of the Tech spot intro). It is so embarrassing to look back at most of this old stuff, but it's all part of the process so we cant just pretend it never happened! Although, I'll admit, there are definitely things too terrifying to see the light of day that will remain on the hd for the sake of anyone actually viewing this blog.