I've done stuff on many Hurricanes and other "major events" in my career (primarily when working for NASA), but working on Hurricane Isabel for TIME Magazine (a cover) was the most extraordinary experience. How often do you get to be developing means to visualize an event as it has arrived locally and knocks out all power to your home office?
(still text to be added.. btw: all sat images used here were originally grayscale...)
Upon receiving a request for a visualization from an editor at Scientific American (the Fire Atlas website we'd done was getting well-known... more on this soon), I decided to share the opportunity in friendly competition with another visualizer on our team (me being the "senior" in our work at times).
(Some of the Interactive Menus from the ET2003 DVD. These were done using very limited software (iDVD) in terms of layout flexibility (in luding font "effect"). More details about this project forthcoming....)
(This project was to develop a prototype interface and look'n'feel for a kiosk to be used originally in a Visitor's Center to help teach children about the dangers of UltraViolet Radiation. From my research, I coined the term "SunShield." More about this project later... you can see some of the Flash format text animations tests for this prototype project HERE)
(My technical manager, the Project Scientist for NASA's TRMM Satellite Mission wanted a
"thought piece" - a single page visual concept for using
several "mini-TRMM" satellites in constellation to measure water
amounts in the Earth's environmental system, that could be used for
overhead presentations. I came up with three approaches (above), one of which was still
being used years later. It's ironic that this particular visualization
was the most scientifically incorrect... on purpose... more later)
(I'm in the process of moving to another house, and haven't had much discretionary time to source some of the 3-D environment, Flash, and other samples of my work to post. The graphic above is a quick composite of some work I was doing in Poser and Photoshop, developing ideas for a non-work related blog I've built. Note: all three characters are the same 3-D model. The upper left image was done using a "cartoon" setting in Poser, taking advantage of being able to manipulate "lights" in 3-space, the "fractal flames" inserted with Photoshop. A similiar approach was used for the image in the lower right.
Anyway, with all the somewhat "linear" non-profit and science-related samples on this website, I wanted to show something indicative of a wider range of ability. More to come.)
