Websites
| It's rare when one person "does it all" in order to earn a moniker of webmaster. Below are four websites where I "did it all". |
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Above
are screens from my website for New York musician DezroK. The site is
about 90% Flash to accommodate many multimedia samples of his work.
In order to allow people the time appreciate his music, I created a
symbolic graphic environment for visitors to explore. Music symbols
appear throughout and are explained in different areas of the site.
"Back
when DezroK was actively producing he had a very interesting website.
I still have not come across as cool a website as his was and that
was 10 years ago!" |
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Above
is an unpublished CD cover for one of DezroK's unrealized projects,
as he produced club remixes for Jennifer Lopez, Joe Jackson and The
Backstreet Boys, and keyboards and arrangement for Nsync, Britney Spears
and other top ten pop phenomena. Click to view my published CD covers for DezroK's "The Love You Feel" and "World Ambient Tantra". |
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Another
musician website for solo artist Troy Kurtis. This site was primarily
Flash and required intensive 3D modeling and rendering. After a bit
of research on the basic construction of a freeway, I decided to build
one in 3D, and make it the theme and set-piece of the site. Modeling
the freeway system was straightforward, but populating it with cars,
lamps and signs was very time consuming. Even the smallest fastening
bolts were researched and custom modeled in case a close-up was required.
Each freeway ramp had to be rendered separately with ray tracing, and
volumetric lighting was rendered separately, to speed-up production.
Most human figures were positioned in Poser and composited in later,
and distant figures are simple 3D models or human "sprites"
on cards. This site took a long time, but it was nice to be given creative
freedom. Troy has a sensational voice, and was previously a member of the Latin American boy band MDO. View my website for Troy Kurtis (orignal format: CGI / 2:08 minutes) |
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Going
way back! This
was the splash screen from the website I created for an independent
filmmakers cooperative in Toronto, LIFT, in 1995.
Considering this was the beginning of the Internet for home use (Netscape v2
and no Microsoft Internet Explorer), it was pretty snazzy for its time.
The
3D graphics were rendered in Pixar's Renderman and MetaCreations' Bryce,
and composited in Adobe Photoshop. I
was the LIFT
webmaster from its beginnings in 1995 to mid-1998. |
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Now for something completely different, above is KPMG's website for (what was in 1994) the largest corporate insurance liquidation in North American History — Confederation Life Insurance Company. Appropriately bare to reflect the nature of a liquidation, the website is intentionally non-graphic. However, this was one of my most demanding websites, as it was powered by a number of security databases for dynamic public and private DB queries. I developed and produced the site 100%, including its robust CDML access, the required databases, as well as administrating its networking to and from a co-hosted secure site. I also created and indexed thousands of pages of PDF documentation of court reports and orders. I've recounted my time and duties at KPMG here. |
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