This promotional piece was used to advertise my multimedia work under the name Digital Widget. It's a splash screen for projects distributed on CD-ROM, so the example you see here is of significantly lesser size and quality than the original to permit it to be presented online. Resolution has been sacrificed, so please excuse the crunchy soundtrack and the banding of the video graphics. A connection speed faster than dial-up is recommended for smooth playback.

To create the music for this movie, I composed a song, played and recorded the instruments with SoundEdit 16, and then mixed them together into a CD-quality stereo soundtrack using Deck II. The animation art was created in both a 3-D modeling program and in Adobe Photoshop, and a scripting program was used to set up a rendering farm that automatically applied transitions and generated frames without human assistance. Some 3-D and Photoshop images were also overlaid with one another and animated with filters in Photoshop. All of the frames were then arranged and edited for playback with Macromedia Director.

The subject of this movie is the logo I designed to represent my company, which is a combination of a monogram and a well-known optical illusion. It also represents me symbolically as someone who can provide a number of different multimedia solutions, kind of like a digital Swiss Army knife. If a gadget like that actually existed, I imagined it would look something like the object in this movie.