Ethnographic Animation

So you want to give a visual to something that doesn’t exist yet and you also want to show what the human experience around this aforementioned thing would be. You know that the human race wants this thing. Friend, what you want is an Ethnographic Animation to help you tell your story.

  1. April 24 2013

    Paperless: Digital Drawing Tools for Artists on the Go

    By Seth Cameron Short
    Related Solutions: Ethnographic Animation, Training
    Related Skill Sets: 2D

    In 2009, I wrote a post about my search for a digital tablet that I could use as a replacement for my sketchbook and notebook. I’ve been an advocate for tablet devices as artistic tools for many years. Mainstream business culture is waking up to the potential that ultra-portable tablets like iPad and Android tablets have as work devices. We are spoiled for choice of Office-compatible apps and suites, email clients, file sharing… everything you need for a day away from the desktop. For us visual types, there are even…

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  2. January 4 2013

    What is Kate Ertmann Looking At?

    By Nancy Hoffman
    Related Solutions: Ethnographic Animation, Manufacturing
    Related Skill Sets: 3D

    ADi was very excited to learn that Portland Monthly Magazine wanted to interview Kate a while back. We think what we do is pretty cool, so we are always very interested and pleased when others share our enthusiasm for the work we do. Our work is not only fun and very creative, but we really do help our clients succeed, and that is always job one. The reporter came to our studio to talk with her and there was a photo shoot as well. The photo from the print edition of…

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  3. July 31 2012

    What are the business advantages of Ethnographic Animation?

    By Nancy Hoffman
    Related Solutions: Ethnographic Animation
    Related Skill Sets: 3D

    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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  4. July 30 2012

    What is Ethnographic Animation? Kate has the answer

    By Nancy Hoffman
    Related Solutions: Ethnographic Animation
    Related Skill Sets: 3D

    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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  5. June 15 2012

    Quantities with Quality

    By Sean Hutchinson
    Related Solutions: Ethnographic Animation, High-tech, Training
    Related Skill Sets: 3D, Interactive

    Data visualization has increasingly strayed into the 3D domain in the last year. As my colleague Seth Short reported in a November blog post about Unite 11, the process of filtering and refining raw data is a full-time job in and of itself. Making it look cool and fun to explore for the everyday Joe takes a unique combination of design aesthetics and technological R&D nerdiness. Earlier this year, the blog Brand Channel, posted an article asking readers whether the newly released FuelBand was a “Game Changer” or just a “Slickly…

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