Author Archive: TBK

Rendered in Photoshop and Specular Infini-D.

Rendered in Photoshop and Specular Infini-D.

This year I redesigned the angel wing feathers to be more simple and easier to render with a silkscreen printing.

Stock photo of power line transmission towers rendered as a jigsaw puzzle entirely in Photoshop.

Guests mingle after the show under the agency’s seal.

The 60th anniversary is the diamond anniversary, so the shape almost determined itself. This art was used on coffee cups and embroidered on shirts.

I designed this piece to look like a photo album, drawing from the organization’s archive of pictures, scanning them in, and making them look like photographs pasted into a photo album.

The illustration as seen in the final magazine spread.

Rendered entirely in Photoshop.

A performance to benefit the renovation of the Martinsburg WV Railroad Roundhouse.

A performance to benefit the renovation of the Martinsburg WV Railroad Roundhouse.

Rendered in Photoshop and Specular Infini-D.

Rendered in Photoshop and Specular Infini-D.

The site was alive with animation. Exit pages are rarely seen on today’s internet, but in 1997, this exit page featured a skydiver that floated downscreen while geese flew across the header.

I used Specular Infini-D to create the short looped 3D GIF animations that represented each section of the site. I drew the clouds by hand in Photoshop.

Ah, back in the day when HTML frames were actually used frequently and weren’t so reviled. Here again, the mascot image in the header was animated.

One of the owners suggested banner ads that weren’t actually ads, they were called “squawks,” a colloquial aviation term for an aircraft’s self-identifying radio burst. The content of these “squawks” included jokes and facts.

Detail of the frayed paper effect I rendered in Photoshop.

Faux padded leather album cover rendered in Photoshop with die cut diamond-shaped cutout.

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The various laptops, monitor, sound boards, and video switchers we used to manage the the multimedia presentation.

The various onscreen graphical elements flashed and slid into place to build the title screen, then retreated offscreen. No audio was required for this program as it was shown on large projection screens in a noisy conference hall.

The various graphic elements fall into place to build the category screen, then the information appears.

The questions for these trivia screens were assembled from information local to the venue where the conference was held.

The title screen included animated background sparks generated by ActionScript 2.0.

As the voiceover describes the benefits of the program, onscreen graphics highlight important points in the narration.

Program information is organized into several modules, and the user’s progress through the presentation is tracked via onscreen grpahics.

The touchscreen

Stock photo of power line transmission towers rendered as a jigsaw puzzle entirely in Photoshop.

The illustration as seen in the final magazine spread.

The 60th anniversary is the diamond anniversary, so the shape almost determined itself. This art was used on coffee cups and embroidered on shirts.

Faux padded leather album cover rendered in Photoshop with die cut diamond-shaped cutout.

I designed this piece to look like a photo album, drawing from the organization’s archive of pictures, scanning them in, and making them look like photographs pasted into a photo album.

Detail of the frayed paper effect I rendered in Photoshop.