July 2012 Stories
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July 31 2012
What are the business advantages of Ethnographic Animation?
Kate Ertmann discusses the many advantages of Ethnographic Animation for business. Watch the video, it’s good stuff. Kate will be answering more questions about Ethnographic Animation here. If you have questions, please let us know and we’ll get them answered.
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July 30 2012
The Art of Styles
Art styles, there are as many ways to draw as there are people on earth. People are exposed to character designs all time, from kids shows to advertisements. Many people have a level of understanding of what’s appealing to them, but dig deeper into the detail and styles can become similar to the untrained eye. Learning a “style” as a professional artist is an interesting subject. Many young artists believe that to achieve anything as an artist they must find a niche and build…
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July 30 2012
What is Ethnographic Animation? Kate has the answer
Kate Ertmann has been speaking at many events and conferences over the last year on Ethnographic Animation. During her travels, she was able to answer some of the most common questions she gets about Ethnographic Animation. In this short video, she give the quick answer to one burning question and will be providing more answers in video to come. If you have questions for Kate, please let us know. Bonus points if you can guess the hotel this was shot in.
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July 18 2012
Content and Context: the two go hand in hand
This year, I’ve made three trips to Las Vegas for three different trade shows. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), The Digital Signage Expo (DSE) and Infocomm. These three shows, while of varying sizes and attendees, have quite a few similarities in terms of exhibitors. Here are some things I found in common at all three shows (without naming and shaming specific companies): There were more than a few instances of display screens with nothing on them but error messages. (sad trombone noise) There was a lot of what I’d call “borrowed” content –…
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July 11 2012
Made a Board Game…
One night, my friend and I were at the bar having dinner after a long session of Diablo 3. We were talking about mini games for our Dungeons and Dragons campaign, and within half an hour I had a fantastically simple yet complex game designed and ready to test. That night, after the bar, I built a rough board in Photoshop and we played eleven games in two hours with the Photoshop file, as I have no printer. We couldn’t stop ourselves. The design had just enough randomness to make…
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