The compliment generator delivers random compliments after the device is shaken. This is a lifestyle app created for both the iPhone and the iPad using the iOS platform. It is part of a series of apps created under the Dr. Tingleton Brand.
Projects
I created a new portfolio and accompanying website for photographer Gregory Cowley. This was a rebranding and refocusing of Gregory’s photography. The goal was to appeal more to magazine and editorial clients. And yes, I am talking about myself in the 3rd person.
The app if for creating beautifully designed notes that can be shared in social media. This is a lifestyle app created for both the iPhone and the iPad using the iOS platform. It is part of a series of apps created under the Dr. Tingleton Brand.
This app helps you make decisions in a snap. It’s based on the concept of a Magic-8-Ball if you remember that. This is a lifestyle app created for both the iPhone and the iPad using the iOS platform. It is part of a series of apps created under the Dr. Tingleton Brand.
Dr. Tingleton’s Miracle Apps is a small company that produces lifestyle apps for iPhones and iPads. This website was created to showcase the apps and to create a culture around the companies products.
The Biometric City is the title for a class that was created by Erik Adigard for CCA. Erik and I taught this class for 3 weeks in Paris to students from CCA.
Shanti Maurice is a luxury resort in the Indian Ocean. This site was created in WordPress to give the operators of the resort the tools they needed for marketing. Every aspect of the site is easily updateable by the team at Shanti Maurice.
This is the second year of the Adobe packaging shoot. Again Tolleson Design hired me to create all the photography for the PhotoShop Elements and Premier Elements packaging. I worked closely with their art directors to plan the shoots. Stylists, assistants, and digital techs were sourced and hired by me. I worked closely with The Blackwell Files to cast the children that would be the subjects of the shoot.
This is a side project I’ve been working on since 2009. It is a film festival geared towards kids and adults of all skill levels. I designed everything including the logo and branding, the site pages, and all of the promotional materials for the festival. I also built this PHP/MySQL website that included user account areas, the ability sign up online, and even the ability to upload your final movie.
SP Controls.com needed a complete overhaul. I designed a layout that was more current with today’s website trends. I was also able to improve the performance of the website for search engine optimization and ease of updating.
In 2009 I became the technical director for 4by6com. It was my job to manage and program the back end for this online printing company. The PHP/MySQL-based website was only part of the equation. There was also an extensive AppleScript driven back end that fully automated the printing process. Clients could upload their files to the website and then receive their print product in the mail with minimal human interaction.
This is a website that I created for my family and children’s portrait photography business. It is an HTML based website with elements flow of Word press, flash, and PHP/MySQL.
This is my own photography portfolio for my professional photography work. This is a flash-based website.
ESET is one of Europe’s largest security software companies. They wanted to create some viral games for the Christmas season. This project allowed people to upload photos of themselves and place them within the sentiment shots, which could then be e-mailed their friends. This was a flash-based micro-site.
Sirna is a subsidiary of Merck Pharmaceuticals and they had just recently opened up a new laboratory in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco. They wanted photographs of their executives and of the interior of their labs for their website. This was a photography project.
I produced this animated, interactive, flash-based website. This was a photography portfolio and it was important to manage the download speeds of the images to give the best user experience.
Luminox wanted a website that they could easily update themselves. To do this they needed a content management system as well as an entire site redesign, which I developed and designed. This is a PHP and MySQL-based website.
A photography consultant wanted to discuss podcasts in a presentation format. I created this flash-based interface that allowed her to browse and navigate the various podcasts. I also created several of the podcasts using Aftereffects. This is a flash-based interface with video.
Voicebox creative had designed a new website and asked me to build it all in flash. This is a streamlined, flash-based portfolio website.
The Sak wanted an online catalog that functioned like a printed-paper catalog. This flash-based mini site included animated effects of the page actually turning when the user chose the next page. The user could also highlight areas within each page to be able to zoom in, get more information, and place orders. This is a flash-based website module.
11 Inc had designed this mini site and they asked me to produce it. This is a flash-based interface that allows you to navigate through various clips of video. One of the key points was that the animated text in the video was also flash-based and layered on top.
This was a book showcasing a work that IDEO had done for HP. I compiled the various videos, flash animations, and PDF documents that made up the archive for this project.
This was a video for some hypothetical products that Intel would be making. The video was a highly produced motion picture. My involvement was to use Aftereffects to create and animate the product faces.
This was a series of presentation videos made using Aftereffects and sketched animations to illustrate various story lines for IDEO.
This was another innovation project for IDEO. I was brought in to create some flash-based presentations to deliver the story to their client. These are flash-based demo movies.
Juicystock was a stock photo library that I created. It is a PHP-based website with a database backend that allows people to search for photos and make purchases. The site also included the ability for additional photographers to submit and manage their work.
Tolleson Design hired me to create all the photography for the PhotoShop Elements and Premier Elements packaging. I worked closely with their art directors to plan the shoots. Stylists, assistants, and digital techs were sourced and hired by me. I worked closely with The Blackwell Files to cast the children that would be the subjects of the shoot.
Meta-Design was redesigning the PC world website. They wanted to have a flash features module placed in the center of the home page. For the purpose of search engines, the flash movie needed to pull its content from the HTML in the page. This is a flash-based interactive module.
For Dog House Wines, I was asked to produce a site designed by Voicebox Creative. This flash-based website included XML supplied content, 3-D interactive navigation, and a scalable screen environment.
Cingular had a document that explained how to develop for their cell phone platform. They wanted to do something more than a simple PDF so they asked us to create a flash-based document tool. This included a flash animation intro as well as an interactive interface. The content was XML-based and could be updated easily by someone with no flash experience. This is a flash-based micro-site.
This was the second year of the IDEO Christmas card. The concept for this one was to break out the 365 days of the year into a grid in the sky that would be filled with stars. Employees of IDEO were asked to contribute by picking a day and telling a story about it. The more people who picked a particular day, the larger the star became. This is a flash-based interactive micro-site with a database back end.
Verge is a conference put on by Ogilvy One. It was designed to bring together executives from marketing agencies and advertising firms for a day of idea sharing. I was contracted as an event photographer to cover the events of the day. One unique feature of the project was uploading the photos to projection screens throughout the day so that people could relive the day in real time.
IDEO wanted to produce a companywide Christmas card that all of its several hundred employees could contribute to along with the recipients. The premise of the card was that people could make their own snowflake. Once they had made their snowflake they could also add a wish for the New Year, and then add it to the collection. During the days leading up to Christmas more than 1000 people contributed their wishes to this Christmas card.
Safari U is an online education source for teachers that allow them to create online courses for their students. I designed, animated, and developed this interactive demo. This was a Flash-based animation mixed with sound and basic interactivity.
Odopod was creating the flagship website for Nike. The site was meant to be a showcase of skills as well as to be a cutting-edge website. I created the media viewer section as well as various other animation portions of the site. The site went on to win many awards. This is a flash-based website which exploited the latest potentials of action script.
LunaFest is a women’s only film festival that travels around the US. This trailer was played at the beginning of each of the film festivals as an introduction to what the festival was about. I worked closely with the production director to edit the film, design, and animate the motion graphics, and to compile the final piece for DVD. This was an after-effects-developed, broadcast quality motion graphics animation
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Intel was releasing a pair of new products and needed an interactive presentation tool. This was a flash-based presentation that included video, photography, sound, and interactive bullet points. The presentation describes the use of the products in six different countries around the world.
AudioFeast was a company that produced subscribable content for MP3 users. They needed a collection of tradeshow materials including this demo interactive animation, which was burned to a series of USB drives and given out to prospective clients. This is a flash-based demo with many interactive controls for sound, navigation, and animation.
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Simple Star is the company that produced an online slide-show development system. The purpose was to allow people with minimal skills to produce dynamic videos that could be shared with friends and family. I contributed to the development of the software and added many of the visual effects.
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MAD is a design company based in Sausalito California. As part of the production of a monograph of their work, I created a Director-based CD-ROM portfolio of their multimedia work to be included with the book.
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This was the second year of producing a CD-ROM for the Academy of Country Music to be distributed throughout the US at Wal-Mart stores. Dr. Pepper was the main client and they had asked for an entertaining collection of activities to be produced on CD-ROM.
Macromedia had a spot on the home page of their website that they referred to as the flexible messaging area. Weekly, the content of this area would be replaced with new flash-based animations that would be illustrating the current topic of the week. I helped design, produce, and program these animations.
IBM was launching a new product which they called DB2. They needed a video that would express the intention of the new product to their internal departments. This three-minute long video demonstrates DB2 using motion graphics, sound and other effects.
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Macromedia had a spot on the home page of their website that they referred to as the flexible messaging area. Weekly, the content of this area would be replaced with new flash-based animations that would be illustrating the current topic of the week. I helped design produce, and program these animations.
Macromedia had a spot on the home page of their website that they referred to as the flexible messaging area. Weekly, the content of this area would be replaced with new flash-based animations that would be illustrating the current topic of the week. I helped design produce, and program these animations.
Dr. Pepper was sponsoring the Red Cross and they wanted a CD-ROM of games related to safety and first aid to be distributed in all the Wal-Marts in the US. These CD-ROMs would be given away with the purchase of Dr. Pepper bottles at a store display. We created a series of fun computer games for children 6 to 16 for this project.
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This was a Flash screensaver created for IBM specially for use by their Lotus Notes department.
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Chronopolis was a project created by Eric Adigard and Chris Salter. They had asked me to help with the development of the graphical portion of the program. This was a large-scale interactive projection that was on display in Paris during the 2002 La Villette Media Festival. I created the animations and interactive graphics for this installation.
Dr. Pepper was sponsoring the Academy of Country Music Awards. They wanted to produce one million CD-ROMs that would be distributed in Wal-Marts across the US to promote both Dr. Pepper and the Academy of Country Music Awards. The CD-ROM included games, facts, music, videos, and pictures.
I was the Creative Director at 3 Feet Off The Ground, a motion graphics and visual effects company, from 1998 to 2002. This is the demo reel of our graphics abilities from 2000 including live action, 3-D animation and sound design.
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Transcinema was an electronic media Festival that ran from 1998 through 2002 in San Francisco and New York. I was the Executive Director. This video showcases many of the past performers.
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Eight Inc. needed a portfolio that served multiple purposes. They wanted to be able to talk through the presentation and to quickly select items that they wanted to show as part of their presentation. The easy to use interface for the CD-ROM portfolio gave multiple options to quickly access any portfolio item.
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Openwave, a developer of cell phone web browsers, needed a video to present before a keynote address at a 3GSM conference in Las Vegas. This video was designed to create a sense of excitement around what the CEO of the company was about to present. This is a motion graphics and live action video.
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Levis placed kiosks in their stores to allow people to buy jeans electronically. This was an endless loop that would play on the screens to attract attention. Once the user touched the screen, they would be given instructions on how to order and make a purchase.
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Intel had just launched the new Pentium III and was expanding its website to contain information about what was possible with Pentium III. This intro animation established a sense of mood and excitement, before giving the user a set of choices as to where to go from there. This is a flash based animation with basic interactivity.
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Apple needed a tool for presenting its design portfolio. They wanted to be able to present Apple’s design history and concepts to students, at tradeshows and to marketing executives, as well as at internal presentations. This CD-ROM allowed the presenter to go through all the advertising and marketing material Apple had, from photos of packaging to full motion video commercials.
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This landing page was an intro animation for the Nike Alpha Project advertising campaign, entirely done in flash. There were 5 versions of the animation that corresponded with a matching television campaign. This was created in the early days of flash.
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