In my 40 years of working, I’ve worn many hats and accomplished many things. Here are some samples of my work…
Animations
I created a series of animations called Simply Speaking, to teach students, staff, and faculty about basic online security. These were animated in Adobe Flash in sort of a cutout paper style, then output as QuickTime movies and uploaded to YouTube. Here are a few…
Phishing Scams
Peer to Peer Filesharing
Cloud Computing Security
Protecting Your Online Accounts
CSI (Interactive Flash converted to MP4)
This was a humorous way of teaching how police use electrophoresis to compare DNA. I both wrote and illustrated this module as a click-through graphic novel. Note this was originally an interactive Flash module but I converted it to MP4 as Flash is no longer supported, but you can still use the playbar to skip through it or let it play on its own.
Electrophoresis (Interactive Flash Animation converted to MP4)
This animation shows the process of electrophoresis to test DNA…
The following is a series of videos for Penn State’s Infectious Diseases MOOC, which consisted of working closely with the faculty members to completely understand the concepts and then converting them to animated illustrations. These were overlaid on video of the faculty teaching the topics. Here are a few…
Roots of Epidemiology
Malaria
What Is Malaria?
Illustrations and Photoshop
A Powerpoint slide for Michael Kubit (CIO at Penn State), who needed a graphic for his Canvas Day presentation. The paint and brushes were some of my own I photographed to use as part of the background. I applied a drop shadow over a canvas background pattern in Photoshop.
Another animation I did was for the Psychology department. This consisted of a series of illustrations set to audio…
Scenario 1: Cassidy Jones
And here are some illustrations for various projects. The next three images were done as sample ads for the World Campus. I did both the Photoshop work and the ad copy itself…
Green Screen Video of Dr. Richard Alley for the Penn State CHANCE Program
This was originally created in Adobe Flash, but I created an MP4 version as Flash is no longer supported. I shot Dr. Alley in front of a green screen and duct taped a bar across a tripod for him to grab onto at the end of his lesson to mimic grabbing the handlebars of a snowmobile, which I layered over his video in Flash. I could do the same thing with Adobe Premiere now, but this was part of an interactive Flash module where students would drill ice cores and record results.
Some of my work for the SIMBA project…
This was an interactive map that was updated each month prior to the Go-Live rollout of SIMBA. If you roll over some of the images, you can see that they move and make sounds. This was particularly challenging in that I had to make it accessible for the color blind and to work with screen readers. There were no real resources to consult in order to do this and I pretty much had to figure it out on my own. It got the approval of both the Penn State Accessibility group and World Campus’s own accessibility group.
SIMBA Promotional Video
Some icons for SIMBA…
This was a life-size painting on plywood of Barney that I made for WPSX-TV for their fundraisers. I’ve since been able to rescue it from PSU Salvage where it was kept in a cage in the back, and it now hangs inside my garage.
I painted a copy of Frederic Remington’s A Dash for the Timber one summer. I used acrylics on hardboard. I really enjoy western art. I saw Remington’s collection at an art museum in Colorado and his work really impressed me. Each one told a story.
Web Design and Programming
Being an Art major in college, I had to learn to program on my own. Unfortunately most of the Web pages I designed have been replaced with new designs, but here are a couple I did recently. I am familiar with HTML5, Javascript, CSS, Bootstrap, Perl, and XOJO. Despite being an art major, I’ve done some pretty cool things in the programming arena.
• Synchrimedia
Synchrimedia is my software company web page for MovieCaptioner, SCC Caption Decoder, and ScreenCaptureX, all programs I wrote using XOJO. The site was developed using Bootstrap and scales for mobile devices.
• Understanding Digital Photography
This site was a bit of a challenge in that it was originally done in Flash, but no longer worked on iOS devices. I tried to keep the same functionality that was in the Flash module as much as possible. It required considerable CSS manipulation and javascript. Although it does scale, it is not as seamless as a Bootstrap site, however, the functionality of the site prevented me from using something like Bootstrap.
Screencast Tutorials
This is a sample of a number of tutorial videos I needed to create on how to use MovieCaptioner. ScreenFlow is a great program to use for such videos.
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