So I recently got a chance to spruce up one of the very first sites I did for this voiceover client of mine out in Chicago. Its previous version had a very simple little Flash animation to make his name rise up over a city skyline. Upon setting out to clean up the design, though, I was drawn to polish up the Flash animation as well. The Chicago skyline is such a cinematic image that it just seemed to need a cinematic introduction. So I gave it one.
It’s always cool to see definitive, real-world proof of how much you’ve grown in a year.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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