Work
Here's a couple of animations that I did while at GreenPoint Mortgage. Sigh. These were both intended to drive employees to the Learning Center LMS to view status or take a course. In both cases we sent an email with graphics and intriguing text, that hopefully would entice them to click on a link and view short even more intriguing animation. Maybe create a little buzz; draw folks into some important - if potentially boring courses.
What About You?
I was pretty proud of the fact that from the time Ani came in and said "Hey we need some thing about compliance..." to completed animation was about 2 and half days. I did pretty much everything on this one: concept, writing, storyboards, voice over, art, animation and sound. I got the music from a public domain film in the Prelinger Archive. Several people asked me how I got the slipping, warped sound in the music. Here's the trick: I found a clip that happened to have that warped bit in it already. I didn't alter it at all. I just timed the animation to look like the film was slipping at the same moment that the sound goes.
Mission: Empower!
This one was done pretty quickly as well. I had some help with the story line and writing on this one. But everything else was mine. Empower! was the software that was used at GPM to track every loan from origination to funding. The courses that had been built for Empower training were some of the first e-learning course that had been done at GPM so they were pretty outdated, both in the content and presentation. So we need to not only updated the entire catalog of Empower! courses, but we also had to do so in such a way that folks who had taken the course and thought they knew the material inside and out would be enticed back in. Our idea was to present the material as a spy scenario and we used this little animation to pull people back into courses and content that was widely perceived as old news. We hit all the pop-culture notes, from James Bond to Get Smart to Austin Powers. The Mission Empower logo was even based on the original Mission: Impossible logo. Unfortunately, we were only able to get the pilot course done before the doors closed.