For the last few weeks we've been commuting back and forth to Austin working with a new and very exciting Client, GradLaunch USA. GradLaunch prides themselves in preparing and polishing soon to be or recent college grads for rewarding careers they actually enjoy. We've been working with them on all production pieces of their three hour Springboard Experience Seminar. Taking our advice GradLaunch bought a new MacBook and Keynote 08' and we've been busy producing an amazing presentation that uses every ounce of Keynote 08's new power. The presentation is not quite finished but for a peek at the animated intro we created click HERE.

Today we finished up a small presentation for Harland Clarke, formerly Clarke American. The assignment was to sync a series of very encouraging and uplifting slides to some great music for a large corporate meeting. It was a quick assignment for us but of great importance to them.

Today we finished up and a very cool presentation for HOLT CAT, the worlds largest Caterpillar dealer. They have a series of presentations for which we conceptualized and produced a 3D animated character named 'Benjamin' in honor of Benjamin Holt the founder of Caterpillar and inventor of the first track-type tractor. Benjamin will be used as a virtual spokes 'person' in future presentations. He started as a sketch and grew into a fully animated 3D character, to check out his progress, the animations and the awesome presentation template we created, click HERE.

Today we finished up an awesome presentation for Pfizer's New York office. The assignment called for a custom design which we mentioned in our blog posting from yesterday but it also included two custom 3D animations. In the animations we show an obese human and dog on a rapid slim down - it was a fun project and we hope it serves them well. Click HERE to watch QuickTimes of the presentation animations.

Our latest project was was to prepare LionForce Building Systems for the National AIA Convention in San Antonio, Texas. With only a week and a half we certainly had our work cut out for us. The assignment was to write a short but comprehensive script and animate their building process in 3D. LionForce uses EPS or Expanded Polystyrene (it's Styrofoam but they can't say it because it's trademarked) to build affordable and green homes. We completed several different presentations; a presentation to be played via DVD on a plasma screen (16:9 HD) hung in their booth, a new product presentation designed to drive traffic to their main booth and an auto-run Flash CD that was handed out to visitors at their booth. We also produced an animated logo treatment and provided them with an iPod compatible copy of the presentation for a meeting the next week in NYC.
It was a fun project but to fulfill all of the Clients needs we used several different applications:
● 3D Studio Max 9
● Adobe After Effects
● Flash
● Keynote
Click HERE to check out their presentation!

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