Swimming upstream since 1978
EXAMPLE : AS3, blitting
A.L.I., the grant funded department at UNT where I work, missed a grant cycle, which basically means we were shutting down. Things a went a little crazy, people freaked, the boss man left,meanwhile I made this with no supervision or direction.
The edugame centers around the idea making an educational card game, but [...]
EXAMPLE : augmented reality in flash, augmented reality in c++, 3d (modeling, texturing animation), exhibition/kiosk
A work of art entitled “Revision” that I created has been on display in an exhibit called Materials and Meanings since June 2009 and will remain so until early January 2010. The prototypes were created using flartoolkit for flash, while the [...]
EXAMPLE : AS3, physics (APE)
On of the main goals of our partnership with the Irving School District is make learning fun. There are some apparent easy ways to do this. Make a animation or video, make a video game, or board game out of the content.
Most of these things are very well traveled and researched, [...]
EXAMPLE : AS3, physics (APE) , generative art assets
Wanting to branch out into games and extend my skill set, I created these mini games as part of A.L.I.’s contract with Irving ISD. Using the Actionscript Physics Engine (APE) was a joy and provided a quick learning path for more feature rich and advanced physics engines [...]
Mornin’! i hear tale of a web redesign. What’s going with the… total switch of focus, huh? Want to keep the old static html design, but make it database driven… ok, well wordpress is fast, what? you want to sell stuff from it too, well that’s not a huge undertaking, we can use… what? the state requires us use nelnet to process payments? What’s Nelnet? Do they have a standard API? No one’s ever used it before, it’s new huh, well, with a month or so I can get all that, really? Two weeks? Before the conference huh…well, sure, why not? And don’t worry about Nelnet tech support being non existent. I mean, I’m an art major, not an IT guy, surely I can figure this out…. just like I’ll figure out when to sleep.
EXAMPLE : PAGE DESIGN, INFORMATION GRAPHICS
I’ve been project manager at A.L.I. for a year and a half. Filling both the art director and programmer roles means that I often do all the coding and very little of the finished design, usually overseeing the other outstanding artists we have and feeling secretly jealous.
Funny thing is, an [...]
EXAMPLE : AS3, XML, ANIMATION, ART
Here’s a few examples bundled up to save time. Each features coding, art and animation done by me. All projects took less than two days and all were done while doing various other projects.
As a project manager at A.L.I. I spend a surprising amount of time helping others and [...]
EXAMPLE : AS3 PROGRAMMING
At the Active Learning Initiative, we make educational games. Or, we have since I made Lewis Hine, our first attempt at an actual educational game, vs a simple flash interface to download PDFs or demonstrate some concept.
It started with a question, can we make something like the Pokemon picture taking game educational [...]
EXAMPLE : AS3 programming, flash art, video production and motion graphics
I used this project as jumping off point for AS3. It had become apparent that manual animation, and pre-rendered 3D alone would not suffice and I knew that if I really wanted to produce games, becoming an AS3 developer was the direction I needed to [...]
EXAMPLE : WEB DEVELOPMENT & VIDEO PRODUCTION
As web master and web designer of the North Texas Daily’s daily updated website, I had the rare joy of experimentation on a large scale during a very unsure time in news.
As a result of my time there, we created video advertising, harnessed the resources of the alumni, [...]
EXAMPLE : 3D FOR PRINT, PAGE DESIGN
I really enjoy mixed media, the challenge of 3D modeling and rendering for print medium. This page design won 3rd at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Advisers Association.
My usual approach, especially with projects that have many interdependent parts, is to develop a good workflow. I had used Illustrator to generate [...]
EXAMPLE : 3D FOR PRINT, PAGE DESIGN
I really enjoy spreads. Fruit spreads on biscuits, cheese spreads on toast, and especially spreads on paper. The bulk work of any publication is going to be quick and clean, following the style book and fitting the puzzle pieces. It’s rewarding work and can be challenging.
Though every designer secretly [...]
A simple flash animation created as invitational for NTDaily alumni.
Software : Illustrator, Flash
EXAMPLE : 3D FOR PRINT, PAGE DESIGN
Two days is not a lot of time to create a full page sports feature like this, especially when there’s 3d modeling and texturing involved.
Wanting to take the 3d modeling skills I had learned in game design classes to a higher level, I volunteered for this assignment. There are [...]
When you completely forget about a deadline, as my ad sales manager did, feel free to come into my office, panicking, drop off nine full body images with ugly backgrounds, a title, then mutter the rest as you dash off to that meeting you are late for. You’ll feel better with each step you take because you know…
I’ve done this kinda thing before and I love a challenge.
EXAMPLE : BRANDING, WEB DEVELOPMENT & MISC
As a founding member of Black Marmot Productions, I created our “brand.” This included logo design, business cards, flyers and other various print materials, and web design. The look and feel of our company was a success for our small experimental production house with no money, giving us the [...]
EXAMPLE : FLASH, GRAPHICS DESIGN, ANIMATION, 3D MODELING
Quick warning, the example on this site was extracted from an interactive CD, and as such takes a while to load and function as you’d expect a web product to.
Our goals for this were multi layered. We needed something to win advertisers over with, something to entice more [...]
Though I tend to gravitate towards info-graphics and news design, my advertising design sensibilities are clean and eye catching.
Having spent a few years doing daily news and ad design, I’ve grown accustomed to hourly deadlines and I’m able create almost any print graphic quickly.
