Expand your ability to:

• inform your customers of upcoming products
  
• demonstrate internal operation or technology concepts
  
• educate with self-paced, interactive training materials
  
• entertain and attract attention with still images or animation that tells your story as you envision it (almost anything is possible... just go see a recent film for ideas)

• products, subassemblies, or components, created from engineering drawings
• “human” characters from artistic sketches, alone or interacting with products, environments, etc.
• objects based on other, similar objects (“it looks like this only...”
  

Motion Graphics:
2D drawings, logos, images, and text can be combined to produce a dynamic, moving message. Attention-grabbing visual backgrounds, driving musical soundtracks, with or without narration can all be used to achieve your vision.

2D Animation:
Characters (human or otherwise), products and their environments can be animated to produce short sequences on any subject. Styles vary widely, from “cartoon-like” (i.e. Bugs Bunny), to cut paper (i.e. www.jibjab.com and South Park), to Japanese anime, to animated “comic book”. Whatever works to support your product and message can be created.

3D Animation:
Products and characters (or products as characters) come alive in full motion animation. Lighting, shading, textures, sounds, facial expressions/emotions, and movement add to the realism. Again, the style for the finished sequence depends on your product, your message, and your target audience.

Special Effects:
Of course, any of the above can have special visual effects integrated into them that help tell your story and drive your message home to your target audience.

Support Services:
Motion graphics and animation need sound effects to make them believable, a musical soundbed to help move the story along and elicit emotion. A dynamic, compelling vocal narration can help tell the story. Subtitles (or narration) in one or more languages can expand your global market reach. We provide all of these elements from our in-house facilities.

Interactive:
Product demonstrations, training programs, and factory tours are just three of the many uses for fully interactive multimedia environments. Deliverable as a CDROM or DVD with movie-quality video, all of the options above can be combined within a highly interactive environment that allows the viewer full control over navigation, viewing choices, content branching. Advanced options such as score-keeping for training/testing purposes, or connections between disc and web content are available as well.

We would be happy to discuss your vision with you, with no obligation. 

• a photography studio
• a video studio and editing suite
• a fully integrated audio recording studio and production suite
• state-of-the-art 3-D modeling and animation workstations and render farm

Our in-house capabilities include:

• script writing and storyboarding
• character design, modeling, rigging, and animation
• texture and materials
• videography
• digital photography and image editing
• video editing and compositing
• soundbed, narration, sound effects, and music recording, creation, mixing, and editing

A 3D computer model of the product components was built from the engineering drawings. These components were then arranged as the actual parts would be to assemble a finished product. The cut-away illustration was created from multiple rendering passes, one for each component. The separate images created by the rendering passes were composited in Adobe Photoshop, superimposed over photos of the actual prototype component parts and the original engineering drawing.

This illustration (done in 1996) was the catalyst for the March 2006 ECN Magazine cover illustration that follows.

This image was created using AutoDesk (Alias/Wavefront) Maya. 3D objects were modeled or pulled from an existing in-house library of 3D models of electronic components. Textures were created in Adobe Photoshop.

A 2D, cartoon-like “mascot” character was created for promotional use. Various versions of the character were created to demonstrate the various capabilities of the company including art and design, writing, training/educational materials development, and photography/digital imaging. A 3-4 minute animated sales presentation was created where the various character versions introduced the viewer to key company capabilities.

The example provided is a composite of several short sections of the animation.

A variety of file size options are provided to match your internet connection speed.