Volley: Collaborative Animation App Concept for Microsoft Research
For web: Volley imagined For Xbox/Kinect: Volley imagined Last summer, I interned at Microsoft Research at the Future Social Experience lab (FUSE). Working with design mentor Richard Zaragoza, I spent 3 months intensively brainstorming, conceptualizing, designing, and pitching a concept for an online collaborative animation app called Volley. A year after my summer’s work, I...
Trace Routes
Trace Route: Seeing Pings Mapped from cindy wong on Vimeo. For Understanding Networks, we were assigned to examine trace routes as we ping various websites and see the travel routes they take throughout the Internet. I created a movie that visually maps out the routes through 24 sites. From there, I culled out the most...
Meet Hatsune Miku, Japan’s Vocaloid Singer
She’s cute, she sings, but she’s not real. Instead, her voice is your instrument and you’re the composer/lyricist and through Hatsune Miku, you’re living through song too. Want to add vibrato? Change the pitch or warmth of the voice? You can here. Voice simulation taken on to another level. Her creator’s songs get replayed, resampled,...
User Interface/Design on a Tablet Experience:
A very succinct and convincing way to quickly show people how your app works and what makes it so appealing (aside from the interesting UI/UX) to get them on board. I don’t have an iPad but gosh darnit, this isn’t helping me in the “gimme gimme” department of my brain.
Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ Music Video
Talk about making a viral music video. Japanese Band, Sour, asked its international fans to help put together their latest video for their newest single. Watch to see. I feel for the MV editor, I really do. Bravo, well done.
SUNTORY TV Commercial: Is high blood pressure necessary a bad thing?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNJmWbvsL0[/youtube] Talk about a “Think out of the box” commercial for a Japanese beverage.